The chief executive of one of the United States’ largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer. Source link
Today, December 5, 2024, is the Chaturthi date and Thursday of Shukla Paksha of Margashirsha month. This date will last till 12.50 noon. After this Panchami Tithi will take place. On this date, Moon will be present in Capricorn. There will be a combination of Uttarashadha Nakshatra on this date. Along with this, there will … Read more
The businessman says that they want to unite the capital market and the bitcoin ecosystem. Saylor compares bitcoin’s volatility to the “fire” Henry Ford used to create the engine. MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor downplayed bitcoin’s volatility, explaining that it is part of the natural behavior of the market’s leading cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin volatility is like fire. … Read more
Protesters rallied outside Georgia’s Parliament building for a seventh consecutive night on Thursday to vent their anger at the government’s decision to suspend the process of joining the European Union. Earlier in the day, in a sign of a widening crackdown, Georgian police searched the offices and homes of prominent activists and opposition leaders and … Read more
XRP investors are savoring the benefits of this bullish cycle, which took the cryptocurrency’s price to levels not seen 6 years ago. The dizzying growth of the currency issued by Ripple Labs has allowed it to position itself as the third most valuable on the market, with a value that exceeds $146 billion. To reach … Read more
The decision by French opposition legislators to bring down the government on Wednesday and throw the European Union’s second-biggest economic power deeper into a political crisis has prompted a “mood of extreme apprehension” in Brussels, FRANCE 24 correspondent Dave Keating reported. Source link
This Wednesday, the NGO Bitcoin Argentina issued a statement against the project of the National Securities Commission (CNV) to create a registry of digital asset service providers (PSAV). The NGO argues that this registry introduces “distortions and inefficiencies” in the market. According to the NGO, the registry poses “great risks.” How the new regulation could … Read more
A ‘shutdown’ of French public services on January 1st? This is the US-style scenario in risk of occurring, according to former Prime Minister, Elisabeth Bornes, following Michel Barnier’s historic no-confidence vote and drop of the procedure for adopting the 2025 budget in France. In reality, even if the threat of a paralysis of the administration … Read more
US President Joe Biden has arrived in Lobito to promote a massive railway project that links Angola’s Atlantic Ocean to mining regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. Known as the Lobito Corridor, the project is viewed as an effort to counter overwhelming Chinese influence over critical minerals. Source link
Islamist-led Syrian rebels surrounded the key city of Hama “from three sides” on Wednesday as they continued their offensive on government-held territory. This marks the latest win for the rebels after last week’s takeover of the country’s second city Aleppo, which in more than a decade of war had never completely fallen out of government … Read more