Posts by Amelia Frost
Are ‘Dark Pools’ The Reason Why $XRP Price Barely Moves Despite Big News?
[ad_1] KEY POINTS DAG’s Claver said big players are utilizing ‘dark pools’ to stack up on crypto, including $XRP Dark pools hide the momentum in massive buying, suppressing the price and sowing doubt among retailers In the long term, dark pools are setting up the perfect scenario for a price pump, Claver said XRP has…
Read MoreBitcoin Can Hit $200K By Year-End 2025 Amid Continuing US Asset Reallocation: Standard Chartered
[ad_1] KEY POINTS $BTC may hit $120,000 this quarter and trade as high as $200,000 by the end of 2025: Kendrick US investors are reallocating their assets, including reallocations from gold to Bitcoin, he said Bitcoin plunged below $75,000 earlier this month, but has since recovered above $90,000 Bitcoin is on track to hit new…
Read MoreFrance Tries Syrian Islamist Rebel Ex-spokesman On War Crime Charges
[ad_1] A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman is to go on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, accused of complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war. French authorities arrested Majdi Nema, now 36, in the southern city of Marseille in 2020, after he travelled to the country on a student…
Read More‘I Have Hope’: Vietnam Babylift Survivor’s Search For Birth Mother
[ad_1] Airlifted from Saigon as an 11-month-old baby, Odile Dussart is now back to living in the land of her birth hoping to find her biological mother. Dussart was one of more than 3,000 children part of Operation Babylift. Removed by the United States at the end of the Vietnam War, they were eventually adopted…
Read MoreTrump Administration Looks to Take Steps to Ease Pain From Car Tariffs
[ad_1] The Trump administration said it plans to announce measures as early as Tuesday to ease the impact of tariffs on imported cars and car parts to give automakers more time to relocate production to the United States. Tariffs of 25 percent on imported vehicles and on auto parts will remain in place. But the…
Read MoreSkulls, Smoke And Spirits: Thai Ceremony For The Unclaimed Dead
[ad_1] Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed by Thais of Chinese descent to give a dignified funeral to the unclaimed dead. In Thailand, hospitals hand unidentified bodies…
Read MoreLess-thirsty Rice Offers Hope In Drought-stricken Chile
[ad_1] A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions. But a new strain of the world’s favorite cereal developed by scientists in the drought-plagued South American country has generated hope that rice can be grown in seemingly inhospitable…
Read MoreHouse Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
[ad_1] The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including A.I.-generated images known as “deepfakes” — and to mandate that platforms quickly remove them. The vote of 409 to 2 cleared the measure for President Trump, who was expected to quickly…
Read More‘Like A Dream’ As IPL’s 14-year-old Suryavanshi Becomes Youngest To Hit T20 Ton
[ad_1] Indian batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi on Monday became the youngest to hit a senior T20 century at 14 years and 32 days as he powered Rajasthan Royals’ successful chase against Gujarat Titans in the IPL. Suryavanshi, a left-hand batsman who became the youngest IPL debutant on April 19, smashed 100 off 35 balls to pummel…
Read MoreAmazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
[ad_1] The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James Bond franchise, a seller of electronic gadgets like Echo…
Read MoreCanada Election: It’ll Be Carney or Poilievre Against Trump’s Tariffs
[ad_1] Canada chooses a leader to take on Trump Canada Election 2025: Follow live updates on news and results. Canadians vote on Monday to determine which political party forms their next government. But President Trump’s tariff assault on Canada and his vow to annex the country and make it the 51st state have turned the…
Read MoreUS Warplane Falls Off Aircraft Carrier Into Red Sea
[ad_1] The Truman is one of two US aircraft carriers currently operating in the Middle East AFP A multi-million-dollar US warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy said. A tractor that was towing the fighter plane — a…
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