Nearly three years ago, just before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 23-year-old Ukrainian Army Lieutenant Myroslav Pylypchuk was preparing to become a father. Instead, he found himself facing the invaders on the front lines, where he faced death repeatedly, including a head-on encounter with a Russian tank in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. … Read more
MARA uses the heat from its mining rigs to heat water, which is distributed to homes. An analyst explained that BTC mining can reduce methane emissions. At the end of December 2024, the American Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) announced that through the waste heat emitted by its mining equipment it managed … Read more
Russia said on Sunday that Ukraine had launched a new counter-offensive in the western Kursk region aimed at repelling Russian and North Korean troops who are trying to retake the area captured by Kiev’s forces last August. . The Russian Defense Ministry said Kiev deployed “an assault group consisting of two tanks, a mine-clearing vehicle … Read more
Athens, Greece – Costas Simitis, Greece’s former prime minister and architect of the country’s entry into the common European currency euro, has died at the age of 88, state TV ERT reported. Simitis was taken from his holiday home west of Athens to a hospital in the city of Corinth on Sunday morning, unconscious and … Read more
West Palm Beach, Florida – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Florida on Saturday to meet US President-elect Donald Trump, as the prominent European leader sought to strengthen ties with Trump ahead of his inauguration on January 20. According to video shared on social media by reporters and others, members of the public at … Read more
Russian forces have taken control of the village of Nadia in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region and shot down eight US-made ATACMS missiles, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports. The ministry said its air defense systems had shot down 10 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory on Saturday morning, … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine – Prime Minister Dorin Racine said on Friday that Moldova was facing a security crisis, with its separatist pro-Moscow Transdniestria region cut off from Russian gas supplies, factories closed, central heating restricted. and a rolling power blackout has been imposed. The flow of Russian gas through Ukraine to Central and Eastern Europe was … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine – A Russian drone strike toward the Ukrainian capital on Friday killed one person and injured four in the Kiev suburbs, local officials said. Moscow’s military has stepped up airstrikes across Ukraine in the first weeks of winter, including a drone strike targeting central Kiev on New Year’s Day that killed two people. … Read more
London- European gas prices hit a 15-month high on Thursday after Ukraine blocked the transit of Russian gas from its territory to the EU. Russian state-run firm Gazprom is set to lose more than $5 billion a year following the closure of the route, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called “one of Moscow’s biggest … Read more
The Swiss Federal Chancellery reported on December 31, 2024 that it has formally accepted a popular initiative seeking the inclusion of bitcoin (BTC) in the reserves of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). This proposal, promoted by a group of digital currency advocates, aims to strengthen the independence and financial stability of the Central European country. … Read more