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AZ vervolgt het Europese avontuur in de tussenronde van de Conference League. De Alkmaarders speelden donderdag in de laatste wedstrijd van de competitiefase met 0-0 gelijk tegen het Poolse Jagiellonia Bialystok, dat het laatste half uur met tien man speelde.

The UN General Assembly has adopted an updated resolution titled “The Situation of Human Rights in the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.”

Președintele american Donald Trump a îndemnat joi Ucraina să se „miște rapid” în negocierile privind un plan de încheiere a conflictului cu Rusia, relatează AFP.

Terwijl andere Nederlandse clubs deze week actief waren in het bekertoernooi, moest AZ aan de bak in Europa. Tegen het Poolse Jagiellonia Bialystok probeerden de Alkmaarders een plaats af te dwingen in de top 8 en zo een tussenronde te ontlopen. Dat lukte niet: AZ kwam niet verder dan 0-0. Achteraf bleek dat zelfs een zege niet genoeg was geweest.

Base’s new tokenized app blends social content, crypto trading, and payments, with stocks and prediction markets coming.

Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson says the U.S. government needs much more rigorous testing when it comes to deciding which cryptocurrencies are considered valuable and which are not. “Why is XRP in the system but not Sui? Why is Solana in the system but not BNB? Can we objectively answer that against some metric?”

A statement from the State Attorney's Office, which included an affidavit from the head of the Police Investigations Department, urged the justice minister to reconsider who prosecutes the case once the investigation ends

Baker McKenzie Ukraine (global adviser) and Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP, local adviser) provided legal advice to Metinvest Group for the acquisition of the majority stake in ArcelorMittal Iasi.

Solana tumbled below $120 to its weakest price since April, while SUI, DOGE and ADA also fell sharply.

A representative from Brazil's stock exchange, B3, said the stablecoin would be “a tool to enable trading in tokens," which it planned to offer in 2026. Brazilian stock exchange B3 announced a move deepening its ties to digital assets through the launch of a tokenization platform and stablecoin for settlements, starting in 2026. In a Tuesday notice to investors, B3’s vice president of products and clients, Luiz Masagão, said the exchange plans to launch a tokenization platform for traditional assets, starting with stock market offerings. He added that B3 would also issue its own stablecoin as “a tool to enable trading in tokens." “The great value of having this tokenization platform connected to the traditional ecosystem is that assets are fungible,” said Masagão. “The token buyer won’t know they’re buying from a traditional stock seller. This allows for a smooth transition, with both benefiting from the same liquidity.” Read more

Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […] The post Google is secretly bankrolling a $5 billion Bitcoin pivot using a shadow credit mechanism appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Charles Hoskinson comments on Trump's meme coin, the president's impact on crypto, and how the government ruined the super cycle: “The minute that Trump Coin got launched. It went from ‘crypto is bipartisan’ to ‘crypto = Trump = bad = corruption.'"

Defendant claimed woman he raped refused to have sex with him because he wouldn't use a contraception. Justices rule that 'the complainant's consent to come to the defendant's home and have sexual intercourse with him does not constitute permission for him to do whatever he pleases with her body'

Romanian startup Unfrosen, which launched a B2B marketplace for the fashion industry in 2023, expects to end 2025 with EUR6.5 million sales. The platform is operational in 13 European markets – Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Italy, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and the Republic of Moldova.

A recent study by the US Federal Reserve argues that despite periodic challenges, a lack of credible alternatives has kept the dollar at the center of global bond markets. A new Federal Reserve discussion paper finds that the US dollar’s role in global bond markets has risen and fallen in cycles over the past six decades, with no clear long-term trend toward either greater dollar dominance or de-dollarization. Using the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) international debt securities database, the authors identify three distinct “dollarization waves” since the 1960s, showing that shifts in currency use have followed cyclical patterns rather than a steady structural change in global financing. “We find no monotonic dollarization or de-dollarization trend; instead, the dollar’s share exhibits a wavelike pattern,” the paper says. Read more

On December 18, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 183 clashes with Russian troops, with the fiercest fighting raging in the Pokrovsk sector, where 46 attacks occurred.

SOL falls behind multiple altcoin competitors as its onchain activity, fee and DApp revenues slump. Cointelegraph explains why. Key takeaways: SOL lagged the altcoin market as falling fees and DApp revenues signaled weaker Solana network demand. Growth shifted to Base, Arbitrum, Polygon and BNB Chain, reducing the odds of a near-term SOL rebound. Read more

Napoli heeft de finale bereikt van de Italiaanse supercup. In Riyad in Saoedi-Arabië versloeg de ploeg van trainer Antonio Conte AC Milan (2-0), de winnaar van de supercup vorig seizoen.

De Treffers van trainer Theo Janssen heeft zich donderdag tot beste amateurploeg in de KNVB-beker gekroond. De Tweede Divisie-club bereikte als enige amateurclub de achtste finales en krijgt de 'blauwe dennenappel'.