The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi on Wednesday evoked a possible third term and a potential delay of a presidential vote due in two years because of turmoil in the volatile east. In power since 2019, the 62-year-old will reach the end of his second five-year term in 2028, the maximum allowed under … Read more
Ethena (ENA) already represents 13.59% of the Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund. To add ENA, the fund sold its position in Aerodrome Finance and rebalanced the portfolio. Grayscale added ethena (ENA) to its Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund, a fund aimed at giving exposure to assets in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The manager reported this May … Read more
US President Donald Trump predicted a swift end to the war with Iran as Tehran considered a US peace proposal that sources said would formally end the conflict while leaving unresolved key US demands that Iran suspend its nuclear program and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Source link
As Internet users, do we still control the content we see on Facebook or Instagram? Or are we being deliberately driven toward personalized feeds or algorithms that collect more data about us and keep us on the platform longer? These are the key questions at the center of Ireland’s media regulator’s latest investigation into Facebook … Read more
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to the Vatican and Italy on a fence-mending visit after President Donald Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo XIV and the US-Israeli war in Iran have alienated those allies. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahi tells us more. Source link
America’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio, will meet the first US pope, Leo XIV, on Thursday, seeking to ease Washington-Vatican tensions while also promoting President Donald Trump’s agenda. The US secretary of state arrived in Rome after Trump’s extraordinary criticism of Leo, the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, over his anti-war stance. FRANCE 24’s … Read more
In the second week of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, former board member Shivon Zilis took the stand before judge and jury. Zilis is romantically involved with Musk as he is the father of her four children. In this edition, we look back at what pushed the tech magnate to … Read more
UK polling stations opened Thursday in local elections set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer and showcase the rise of hard-right and left-wing populists. Opinion polls predict grim results for Labour, which could amplify calls for Starmer, 63, to resign or face a long-rumoured party leadership challenge. Source link
Solana processes nearly 265 million transactions daily. Visa, Circle and Western Union already use their network for real transactions and settlements. CoinShares, an on-chain analysis firm, proposes that the Solana network could become a key infrastructure for digital finance, due to its ability to process high volumes of transactions with low costs. In his most … Read more
In July, members of the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany’s parliament, are due to get an automatic pay raise that has long been granted to German civil servants in order to keep up with inflation. However, junior coalition partners the Social Democrats (SPD) as well as the opposition left parties are calling for an … Read more