Video of tragic incident sparks UK political firestorm, Peru to select its next president, Zelensky writes to Putin

Man’s death sparks political firestorm in the United Kingdom

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for the British public to respond with “pure, cold rage” after a video emerged on Monday showing 18-year-old Henry Nowak desperately calling for help while the police arrested him last December. He died hours later. What exactly is the controversy? When police arrived at the scene,…

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UK treats crypto network like a sanctioned bank after claims it processed $90B for Russia

Western governments spent three years building what they believed was an airtight financial blockade around Russia, severing its banks from SWIFT, freezing sovereign reserves, and barring major institutions from clearing dollar transactions. And according to British authorities, Russia may have spent much of that same period engineering an alternative financial system designed to circumvent it…

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Chronik der fossilen Expansion: Tony Blairs Angriff auf Labour

Tony Blair hat in einem „Essay“ die Labour Party scharf angegriffen (Blair, 2026; dazu Walker, 2026; Elgot, 2026). Er fordert statt ihres „soft left“ Kurses einen, wie er es nennt, „radikal zentristischen“ Kurs. Als möglichen Verbündeten bezeichnet er übrigens Friedrich Merz. Von Politikern wie Mark Carney und Mario Draghi, die ich tatsächlich als radikal zentristisch bezeichnen würde,…

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Chronik der fossilen Expansion: Tony Blairs Angriff auf Labour

Tony Blair hat in einem „Essay“ die Labour Party scharf angegriffen (Blair, 2026; dazu Walker, 2026; Elgot, 2026). Er fordert statt ihres „soft left“ Kurses einen, wie er es nennt, „radikal zentristischen“ Kurs. Als möglichen Verbündeten bezeichnet er übrigens Friedrich Merz. Von Politikern wie Mark Carney und Mario Draghi, die ich tatsächlich als radikal zentristisch...

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Chronik der fossilen Expansion: Tony Blairs Angriff auf Labour

Tony Blair hat in einem „Essay“ die Labour Party scharf angegriffen (Blair, 2026; dazu Walker, 2026; Elgot, 2026). Er fordert statt ihres „soft left“ Kurses einen, wie er es nennt, „radikal zentristischen“ Kurs. Als möglichen Verbündeten bezeichnet er übrigens Friedrich Merz. Von Politikern wie Mark Carney und Mario Draghi, die ich tatsächlich als radikal zentristisch […]

Bank of England’s 24/7 settlement plan shows where tokenized finance can enter core markets

Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and stablecoins can cross borders in seconds on a Sunday morning. And yet, if a major UK institution needed to move collateral, settle a high-value payment, or shift liquidity between clearing houses over the weekend, much of that activity had to queue up and wait. […]

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Xi presses Trump on Taiwan stance, Starmer’s ally hangs him out to dry, Russia launches largest aerial attack on Ukraine

Xi warns Trump on Taiwan despite friendly start to meetings

US President Trump and Chinese President Xi on Thursday exchanged friendly toasts and reiterations of commitment on the first day of a Beijing summit flush with pageantry. The friendly tone suggests that both sides hope to maintain the current status quo of fragile detente in a relationship marked by deep…

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Trump-Lula meeting today, UK local elections testing Starmer’s leadership, New generation of African leaders step into the spotlight

Trump hosts Brazil’s Lula at White House today

Brazil’s pugnacious left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will**** sit down with**** US President Donald Trump today at the White House, and ties between the two leaders have been fraught, to say the least. Last year, Trump imposed sanctions and tariffs on Brazil over its content moderation policies and the legal prosecution of…

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A Tether-linked billionaire poured £22M into UK politics – Now new donation rules may close the door

Christopher Harborne is British-born, Cambridge-educated, and has lived in Thailand since 1996. He goes by the Thai name Chakrit Sakunkrit, holds Thai citizenship, and controls a reported 12% stake in Tether, the stablecoin issuer behind roughly $184 billion in circulating USDT. According to the Guardian's investigation, he's also the single largest donor in the history […]

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New police raids on people trading crypto for cash raises a hard question about financial freedom

UK authorities have carried out their first coordinated operation against suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, sending a clear and simple message to the market: once a person turns crypto dealing into a business, the state expects names, checks, records, and accountability. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it worked with police and tax officials to […]

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Antisemitic ambulance attack in London

4 – The number of Jewish charity ambulances that were set ablaze early on Monday in North London, United Kingdom, the latest antisemitic attack in a country where anti-Jewish incidents have spiked in recent years.


CCTV footage caught three suspects walking up to the four ambulances, which belonged to the charity Hatzolah, in the Jewish area of Golders Green and setting them on fire.…

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Revolut’s digital pound trial shifts the UK payments debate from crypto hype to consumer protections and clarity

Revolut is preparing to trial a pound-backed stablecoin inside a regulated stablecoin sandbox in the UK, with testing expected within the current quarter. While this might look like another fintech pilot in the long history of crypto payment tests, the more interesting part sits upstream of the token itself. Revolut has what most stablecoin projects […]

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