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The pilot's goal was to show how banks can use Google’s Universal Ledger to settle fiat payments in real time without new digital currencies.

Украинские защитники провели ряд успешных контратак в Покровске, что позволило переломить ситуацию на участках, где российские войска рассчитывали продвинуться дальше. А бойцы украинского спецназа провели операцию по ликвидации российских диверсантов в городе.

Penn is not the first school hit by a probe for Jewish contacts. In April, professors at Barnard College received texts from the federal government asking if they were Jewish as part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's review

Lawyers held a protest march in Karachi on Wednesday, demanding “immediate” steps for the protection and preservation of the Karoonjhar Mountain range. They also called for the withdrawal of an appeal by the Sindh government, challenging a two-judge Sindh High Court bench judgement on the preservation of Karoonjhar hills in Tharparkar. The appeal was filed in the Supreme Court, but it has now landed in the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), which was established under the 27th Amendment. The Sindh High Court Bar Association had announced a protest today, calling for the preservation of the Karoonjhar Mountain range, and planned to march from the Sindh High Court to the Chief Minister House. View this post on Instagram However, the protesters were barred from reaching the CM House due to the placement of containers to block the routes leading to the building. The measure also created inconvenience for the commuters who were asked by the traffic police in multiple advisories to travel on alternative routes. Po...

Binance Prestige is a new white glove service targeting wealthy crypto investors and family businesses with assets in the order of around $10 million.

Вооруженные силы Российской Федерации оккупировали село Проминь под Мирноградом и Высокое (Красное) возле Гуляйполя, установили аналитики. На карте фронта линия боев местами сместилась на 1–2 км. Какие позиции оказались "на глубине" 5–12 км?

Сотни лет считалось, что мясо додо, давно вымерших нелетающих птиц, было отвратительным на вкус. Однако исследователи полагают, что это, вероятно, не совсем соответствует действительности.

34-летняя Брук МакНелис уже семь лет находится в отношениях со своим 56-летним женихом Пэтом. В то же время девушка признается, что Пэта часто называют отцом Брук, а его подозревают в интересе только к деньгам девушки.

На глубине 700 метров под Землей на юге Китая начал работу крупнейший в мире детектор “призрачных частиц” – JUNO. Ученые получили первые результаты исследования нейтрино, которые открывают путь к неизвестной физике. 

Hema-winkels in heel Nederland zijn verstoken van vers gebak door technische problemen bij een van de leveranciers. De storing is inmiddels opgelost, maar de vitrines blijven tot vrijdag leeg.

The decentralized storage protocol showed selective strength while broader digital assets retreated.

Thousands of trade union workers across India protested on Wednesday against the government’s rollout of new labour codes, saying they would lead to corporate exploitation and erode their hard-won rights. The world’s fifth-largest economy last week implemented long-awaited labour laws that will replace colonial-era legislation and simplify a maze of confusing regulations. The overhaul consolidates 29 existing labour laws into four key codes, with the number of rules being cut from more than 1,400 to about 350, but unions say the reforms will hurt workers’ rights. Gautam Mody from the New Trade Union Initiative said workers from across all sectors were protesting on Wednesday outside factories and in many city centres. “Workers have been blindsided by the government,” he told AFP. “We want fairness, justice and equity before the law, which are being denied under the new codes.” Workers cut wooden logs using a machine at a warehouse in Varanasi, India on November 26. — AFP While the new regulations boost safety...

After years of debate, Israel decided to end capital punishment in 1954. 'If I lived in Scandinavia, I'd vote without hesitation to abolish the death penalty,' said Ben-Gurion in one discussion on the matter. 'Here, I'll vote with a heavy heart'

Spijt komt in vele soorten en maten. Waarom levert de ene keuze hooguit een weekje wroeging op en de andere levenslang leed? En wat helpt als je spijt hebt?

Археологи, работающие вблизи Ламонзи-Сен-Мартен, сообщили об обнаружении римского захоронения с кремацией на юго-западе Франции. Место раскопок, расположенное вблизи реки Дордонь, дало неожиданное представление о погребальных обычаях, практиковавшихся членами элиты имперской эпохи.

Polygon’s co-founder said even small merchants and drivers recognized MATIC, but many struggle to locate POL since the token’s rebrand. Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal spurred public discussion about the project’s token branding, asking the community if the network should consider reverting its ticker from POL to MATIC.  On Wednesday, Nailwal said that while he personally thinks that they should stick to POL, he continues to hear feedback that the original MATIC ticker had stronger recognition, especially among retail users who are now confused about the asset’s whereabouts.  “The counter-argument I keep getting is: the guy in the Philippines running a sari-sari store, or an Uber driver in Dubai, knew MATIC… and now he has no idea where it went,” he wrote.  Read more

After strong demand in September, eligible clients can choose two shares, valued at about NIS 138.9 as of November 25, or a NIS 125 cash grant, the bank said.

Strategy said it has a 70-year dividend runway even after Bitcoin’s slide, rolling out a new credit rating metric to ease fears over DAT liquidation risks. Michael Saylor’s Strategy is attempting to calm investor concerns about its balance sheet after the recent Bitcoin market downturn and a sharp pullback in digital asset treasury (DAT) stocks. Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder, has rolled out a new credit rating dashboard based on the company’s preferred stock notional value, and claims to have another 70 years’ worth of dividend payment runway to service its debt, even if Bitcoin’s price remains flat. “If $BTC drops to our $74K average cost basis, we still have 5.9x assets to convertible debt, which we refer to as the BTC Rating of our debt. At $25K BTC, it would be 2.0x,” said Strategy in a Tuesday X post. Read more

Вопрос долговечности гаджетов становится все актуальнее по мере подорожания техники. Есть способы продлить срок эксплуатации любого телефона.

Lebanon and Israel delineated their maritime borders in 2022 under a U.S.-brokered deal, and Syria is the final country with which Lebanon has yet to delineate its sea border. Lebanon hopes offshore gas and oil discoveries could help reverse a 2019 financial collapse