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XRP trades near $1.86 after breaking multi-month support, with analysts watching $2 recovery or risk of a deeper drop toward $1.

UK teachers will be trained to tackle misogyny in the classroom under a new strategy aimed at halving violence against women and girls over the next decade, the government said Thursday. The new strategy would “deploy the full power of the state to introduce the largest crackdown to stop violence perpetrated against women and girls in British history”, said Jess Phillips, minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, who is due to unveil details of the new approach in parliament later. The 20 million plan comes as the latest statistics showed over 40 per cent of young men held a positive view of so-called manosphere influencer Andrew Tate, a government statement said. And over the last year alone, one in every eight women was a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking. “For too long, the scale of violence against women and girls has been treated as a fact of life in our country,” said Phillips. Under the strategy, all secondary schools in England will have to teach students about...

The rollout provides Telegram users with access to tokenized US stocks via a self-custodial wallet, but it will not be available in the US at launch. Kraken-backed tokenized securities platform xStocks is launching on TON Wallet, a self-custodial wallet on the Telegram messenger. Following an initial rollout on Wallet in Telegram, xStocks is now live on TON Wallet, marking the offering’s official launch on Telegram-linked blockchain, The Open Network (TON), Kraken announced Thursday. “Launching xStocks on TON brings tokenized equities onto truly open infrastructure,” Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said in the announcement, adding that the launch marks the first time for Telegram users to access tokenized US equities onchain. Read more

Following the launch, users can buy, hold, and transfer tokenized versions of blue-chip stocks, including Tesla (TSLAx) and Nvidia (NVDAx), across the TON Ecosystem.

[PRESS RELEASE – Vilnius, Lithuania, December 18th, 2025] In 2025, WhiteBIT expanded its international presence, entered new markets, and developed its product and institutional offering. The year focused on geographic expansion, partnerships, and operational development across retail and institutional segments, alongside ongoing compliance and security efforts. Building a Global Crypto Platform In 2025, WhiteBIT announced […]

С 1 января 2027 года предприниматели — плательщики единого налога с доходом более 1 млн гривен будут обязаны регистрироваться как плательщики НДС и платить 20% налога. Законопроект также устанавливает правила изменения ставки единого налога и определяет исключения для электронных резидентов.

Het rapport-Wennink legt de vinger op de zere plek: zonder hogere productiviteitsgroei verliest Nederland terrein. Maar achter het investeringsprogramma schuilen blinde vlekken die de effectiviteit ondermijnen.

China’s Foreign Ministry attacked the move, saying it would violate diplomatic agreements between China and the United States.

Лидер Беларуси Александр Лукашенко заявил, что Украина якобы "исчезнет с карты", если российско-украинская война будет продолжаться. При этом он считает, что российский президент Владимир Путин хочет мира, как и президент Украины Владимир Зеленский.

The SEC has refreshed its crypto asset FAQs, clarifying how broker-dealers like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and others can satisfy custody and capital requirements for crypto asset securities, and addressing how the framework applies to Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF activity. The update appears on the Trading and Markets FAQ index as “Frequently Asked Questions Relating […] The post New SEC rules lets Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sach legally “control” your private keys without the safety net you assume exists appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s Taproot usage is declining, signaling wider concerns around its quantum future, as the leading cryptographers race to solve the quantum threat in 2026. A small but growing group of Bitcoin advocates and crypto fund managers is urging the network to accelerate work on quantum-resistant signatures, arguing that the perception of a future “quantum threat” could become a market risk long before it becomes a practical one. Some supporters are pointing to a draft Bitcoin Improvement Proposal known as BIP-360, which would introduce a post-quantum signature option for Bitcoin addresses that could be vulnerable to future advances in quantum computing. The implementation must be finalized and deployed in 2026, said Charles Edwards, the founder of quantitative Bitcoin (BTC) and digital asset fund Capriole. Read more

The volume of construction works in Romania grew by 10% in unadjusted data and by 9.7% when adjusted for the number of working days and seasonality, in January-October 2025 compared to the same period of 2024, data from Romania’s statistical office INS show on Thursday (December 18).

Военно-морской эксперт The Telegraph Том Шарп не скрывает восхищения операцией СБУ, в результате которой подводный дрон поразил подводную лодку РФ в Новороссийске. Он не совсем понимает, как украинцам это удалось, но признает это исключительно важной инновацией и утверждает, что Британия тоже не смогла бы противостоять такой акции.

Опубликованы первые официальные фото Nissan Gravite. Компактный минивэн будет иметь три ряда кресел и заводское ГБО.

Спецпредставитель президента США Стив Уиткофф, который недавно вместе с зятем Дональда Трампа Джаредом Кушнером прилетал в Москву на переговоры по урегулированию войны в Украине, якобы повез своему патрону ящик красной икры.

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Thursday called for proposals to address challenges posed by artificial intelligence in the advertising industry, emphasizing the need to safeguard creative professionals from redundancy.

Eyewitnesses told Haaretz the riot began when police detained a young Haredi man in his car. After telling passersby he was an IDF draft evader and urging them to stop the officers, calls were made to extremist hotlines in Jerusalem and a crowd quickly gathered, throwing stones and garbage at police

История метрополитена в мире насчитывает более 150 лет, который прошел путь от экспериментального транспорта до одного из самых безопасных видов транспорта. Фокус расскажет о начале этого вида передвижений, а также о том, как изменилось практическое применение украинских метро во время российско-украинской войны.

ETHGas announced a $12 million seed raise as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reignited discussion around onchain gas futures and fee-hedging mechanisms Ethereum blockspace trading platform ETHGas announced it has raised $12 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital. The funding announcement comes after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently discussed the idea of an onchain “gas futures” market, arguing that such a product could give users a clearer signal of expected fees and let them hedge future costs. ETHGas argues that Ethereum needs “a reimagination of the way blockspace is allocated on the network” and claims that its newly-launched blockspace trading platform is a step in that direction. The company said the market launched with $800 million in commitments from validators, builders and other participants. Read more