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Nigel Farage en zijn rechts-radicale partij Reform UK zijn onstuitbaar in het VK. Achter die opmars gaat een verdeeld land schuil, waar het gevoel van trots wegsijpelt. Een reportage uit Oldham, bij Manchester.

Начальник Генштаба ВС РФ Валерий Герасимов заявил, что получил задание от президента Владимира Путина расширить так называемую буферную зону в двух областях Украины. В СМИ обратили внимание, что этим словам предшествовали угрозы местью.

В западных регионах Украины сохраняются сложные погодные условия: метели, сильный ветер и низкие температуры существенно усложнили передвижение по дорогам.

Bubblemaps said Lighter airdropped $675 million in LIT, one of crypto’s biggest ever, as data shared on X suggested about 75% of recipients were still holding. Lighter, a decentralized exchange (DEX) that offers perpetual futures trading, carried out one of the biggest token giveaways in crypto history, even as critics continued to question how the project split its token supply. Lighter airdropped a total of $675 million worth of Lighter Infrastructure Tokens (LIT) to early participants on Tuesday, according to blockchain data visualization platform Bubblemaps. “$675M airdropped to early participants. $30M withdrawn from Lighter (only),” wrote Bubblemaps in a Tuesday X post. The $675 million total makes the Lighter airdrop the 10th largest airdrop by US dollar value in cryptocurrency history, according to crypto data aggregator CoinGecko. Read more

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will visit Beijing to co-chair the seventh round of the Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, which is scheduled to be held on January 4, 2026, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Wednesday. According to the FO, Dar will be visiting Beijing at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. It said that the dialogue was the “highest consultative mechanism between Pakistan and China, providing a structured platform to review the entire spectrum of bilateral cooperation, as well as regional and international developments of mutual interest”. It added that during the dialogue, the two foreign ministers will also announce a series of initiatives and commemorative activities to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. “The visit forms an important part of the regular high-level exchanges between the two countries and reflects their shared determination to broaden and deepen the all-weather ...

In de Europese bankensector dreigen de komende jaren meer dan 200.000 banen te verdwijnen, doordat banken steeds meer gebruikmaken van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI). Dat meldt zakenkrant Financial Times op basis van onderzoek door de Amerikaanse zakenbank Morgan Stanley.

1 та 2 січня буде тимчасово змінено графік руху поїздів лініями метрополітену. Про це повідомляє пресслужба Харківського метрополітену. Зміни пов’язані з урахуванням раціонального використання енергоресурсів в умовах воєнного стану та…

National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday visited the residence of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka to offer condolences to the bereaved family.

On the screen he brought the noble and upright Palestinian to the Israeli audience. Behind the camera Bakri, who died last week at 72, tried to show Palestinian pain and trauma – and paid a price for it

Британская ясновидящая Селина Авалон предупредила о возможной вспышке смертельной болезни, которая может перерасти в глобальный кризис здравоохранения менее чем за пять лет. Экстрасенс также высказала ряд прогнозов относительно геополитики, технологий и общественных изменений в 2026 году.

В 2025 году в Украину завезли немало недешевых элитных авто. Среди них — Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, причем стоимость некоторых моделей исчисляется миллионами долларов.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $355 million, snapping a 7-day outflow streak that saw $1.12 billion withdrawn from the products. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended a seven-day run of net outflows, pulling in $355 million as traders pointed to early signs of improving global liquidity. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) led the rebound with $143.75 million in inflows on Tuesday, followed by the Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) at $109.56 million and Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) with $78.59 million, according to data from SoSoValue. Bitwise’s Bitcoin ETF (BITB) added $13.87 million, while smaller inflows were recorded by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) with $4.28 million, and VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF (HODL) with $4.98 million. The turnaround came as spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $1.12 billion in cumulative net outflows during the prior seven trading days. The heaviest selling occurred on Friday, when funds shed about $275.9 million. Read more

Cypherpunk Technologies boosted its zcash bet with a $28 million token purchase, lifting its holdings to 1.7% of ZEC’s circulating supply.

Laten we de Labubu-hype achter ons in 2025? De populariteit van de knuffels lijkt over zijn hoogtepunt heen, vrezen beleggers. De Chinese speelgoedfabrikant Pop Mart, de maker van de kleine pluchen monsters met puntige oren en gekartelde tanden, is op de beurs in Hongkong sinds augustus al zo’n 44 procent gezakt.

A year and a half after buying back the Israeli franchise amid global backlash over the Gaza war, McDonald's is still searching for a local operator – and some in the industry say it is in no hurry to let go

NFT minting accelerated even as buyers spent less, pushing the market toward a high-volume, low-price dynamic. The non-fungible token (NFT) market expanded in total supply, but saw significantly lower sales in 2025 compared with previous years.  CryptoSlam data shows that the total number of NFTs in circulation climbed to more than 1.34 billion this year, marking a 25% increase from the one billion supply in 2024. The increased supply came in parallel with falling sales.  According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales reached about $5.63 billion in 2025, down by about 37% from the $8.9 billion recorded last year. Average sale prices also declined year-on-year, slipping to $96 from $124.  Read more

31 декабря выдалось особенно морозным в горах. Ситуацию усугубляет сильный ветер.

Mali and Burkina Faso have announced travel restrictions on American nationals in a tit-for-tat move after the US included both African countries on a no-entry list. In statements issued separately by both countries’ foreign ministries and seen on Wednesday by AFP, they said they were imposing “equivalent measures” on US citizens, after US President Donald Trump expanded a travel ban to nearly 40 countries this month, based solely on nationality. That list included Syrian citizens, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, and nationals of some of Africa’s poorest countries, including also Niger, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. The White House said it was banning foreigners who “intend to threaten” Americans. Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry said in the statement that it was applying “equivalent visa measures” on Americans, while Mali said it was, “with immediate effect”, applying “the same conditions and requirements on American nationals that the American authorities have imposed on Malian citizens en...