Bitcoin on Thursday for the first time broke the $100,000 barrier after US president-elect Donald Trump announced he had nominated crypto proponent Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bitcoin has soared more than 50 percent since the election, spurred by Trump’s pledge to make the US the “cryptocurrency capital of the … Read more
PRESS REVIEW: Thursday, December 5 – the world’s press reacts to, revels in, and satirizes the fresh chaos into which France has been plunged over the toppling of Michel Barnier’s government in a no-confidence vote Wednesday. We look at front pages and analysis, as well as what might lie ahead. Source link
Angela Merkel’s memoir is already the most successful book of the year in Germany, an industry monitor said on Thursday, just one week after its release. Freedom: Memories 1954-2021 charts the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s childhood in communist East Germany through her political rise within the Christian Democrats (CDU), her election as the first … Read more
France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to hand in his resignation on Thursday just three months into the job after losing a no-confidence vote in parliament. It is the first time in more than 60 years that a French government has been topped in this manner, plunging the country into a deep political crisis. … Read more
As Paris watched flames consume its beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral five years ago, no one could have imagined just how toxic the smoke spewing from the disaster could be. The rising plume contained several billion particles of lead from the collapsing roof and spire. Now that the cathedral has been identically rebuilt, a group of associations … Read more
Michel Barnier has now become the shortest-serving prime minister in France’s Fifth Republic and the first PM to be ousted by parliament in over six decades. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the abrupt departure of PM Barnier, following a no-confidence motion proposed by the hard left, and crucially backed by the far … Read more
FRANCE 24 correspondent Yena Lee explains the South Korean government’s impeachment process, and how likely President Yoon Suk Yeol’s hold on power is to resist the upcoming vote. Source link
The ruling People Power Party (PPP) said on Thursday it would block the opposition’s motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for his short-lived attempt at martial law, but the motion only needs a handful of PPP defectors to pass and few are ready to forgive Yoon’s “unconstitutional” move. Source link
Washington: United Healthcare CEO (CEO) Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a hotel in Manhattan, New York, on Wednesday morning. An officer associated with the investigation into the case provided this information on condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, police said, without revealing the identity of the dead man, that a 50-year-old man was shot outside … Read more
Amnesty International released a report on Thursday which concludes that Israel is “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. The report says Israel has “unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity”. Amnesty’s report is the first such determination by a prominent human rights organization in the 14-month-old conflict. Israel … Read more