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DiDi, the Chinese equivalent of Uber, is forming a task force to design and implement a trial of China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) on its transportation platform. A spokesperson of the Chinese ride-hailing mobile service told CoinDesk in an email response that it has entered into a strategic partnership […]
Corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined Roger Stone’s plea and ordered him to report to prison on July 14th. This is the same prison that has a coronavirus outbreak so bad the government just released a convicted pedophile and a convict who committed bank and wire fraud due to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set a date of July 1st to begin Israel’s annexation of major parts of the Occupied West Bank. A group of 47 independent UN legal experts call the annexation plan “a vision of a 21st century apartheid.” Author and scholar Norman Finkelstein argues that […]
Switzerland’s InCore Bank AG has become the first financial institution in the country to offer banking services to Kraken clients. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an […]
History Provides Clues Into Israel’s West Bank Annexation By Miko Peled, Mintpress News. July 2, 2020 History Provides Clues Into Israel’s West Bank Annexation2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/apisrael.jpg200px200px Above photo: Two Israeli soldiers drag a Palestinian to the ground, Nov. 19, 1996 as he protests the bulldozing of his land near the Jewish settlement of […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): According to car industry representatives, the sector witnessed a revival in month-on-month sales in June due to pent-up demand caused by the COVID-19-induced lockdown. As the economy opens up, dealerships are experiencing increased demand. In a decision that is hoped will rev up auto sales in […]
As crowds of demonstrators marched in Palestinian territories on Wednesday, sympathy protests took place across the world, including in the United States, the main foreign backer and enabler of Israel’s West Bank plans. A Palestinian solidarity march took place in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, with some protesters warning of […]
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is close to starting development of a blockchain platform expected to speed up the processing of bank users’ ID information. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Back in April, India’s federal drug regulator cleared a proposal by the country’s top biomedical research body for the clinical trial of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. The trials are now being conducted by hospitals/research laboratories approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). India’s first-of-its-kind […]
Hundreds of protesters marched through New York City to voice opposition to Israeli annexation plans in the West Bank and the continued occupation of Palestinian territory as Tel Aviv gears up for a major land grab. A sizable crowd of demonstrators gathered in Brooklyn for Wednesday’s ‘Day of Rage’ rally, […]
The UK’s central bank has recently improved its assessment of the cumulative GDP loss in 2020 from 17 percent to 8 percent, as the easing of lockdown restrictions have driven up demand and economic activity. The Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane has said that Britain is on track […]
A former bank exec has said he will help “transform” BitMEX, just a week after the crypto derivatives exchange launched a new corporate service. Announced Tuesday, BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading said David Wong – a former deputy CEO at Bank of China, the second-largest bank in Hong Kong – […]
The UN’s top human rights official has condemned Israel’s plans to take over parts of the occupied West Bank, warning that the move would undermine peace efforts, and saying: “Annexation is illegal. Period.” Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, described Israel’s annexation […]
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “apply sovereignty” over up to 30 percent of the occupied West Bank despite mounting international opposition, with PM Boris Johnson telling parliamentarians in June that the government “strongly objected” to the plan and restated support for the two-state solution. In a move […]
Israel is set to vote on a sovereignty bill on 1 July and while most of the world has slammed the move, some say the disputed areas of the West Bank have always belonged to the Jewish people, promised to them by the same global community that’s now questioning Tel […]
__________HaaretzHamas Says West Bank Annexation Is ‘A Declaration of War,’ Israel ‘Will Regret It’ Hamas would consider Israeli steps toward annexing parts of the West Bank as a “declaration of war,” said on Thursday Abu Ubaida, spokesman of the Gaza-based organization’s military wing. “The forces of the resistance will faithfully […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006251079720624-hamas-says-annexation-of-west-bank-by-israel-declaration-of-war/ GAZA (Sputnik) – The Hamas Islamist movement will consider an extension of sovereignty over parts of the West Bank by Israel a declaration of war against Palestinians, Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for a Hamas military wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said on […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the so-called bank for central banks, rejected the popular narrative that private sector stablecoin proposals (read: Libra) have been key in spurring the issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in a report published Tuesday. Instead, the BIS, in a new digital payments chapter […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107968/11/1079681189_0:193:3296:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_c9ef08e2fb438863ed5489dce65389ac.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006241079707627-un-security-council-discussing-israeli-plans-to-extend-sovereignty-over-west-bank—video/ Since the presentation of the so-called deal of the century proposed by US President Donald Trump on 28 January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to start unilaterally extending the Jewish state’s sovereignty over one-third of the West Bank by 1 July. […]
UN Chief Urges Israel to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank __________TeleSURUN Chief Urges Israel to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank “This would be calamitous for Palestinians, Israelis and the region,” Guterres said. United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres urged Israel Tuesday to call off its plans to annex parts […]
Sweden’s Riksbank has looked into the viability of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for its local market and declared mixed results. In a 96-page economic review, updated June 18, the world’s oldest central bank presents four models for supplying a digital version of the Swedish krona (e-krona) as well as […]
Bank of England governor gives downbeat economic assessment in rare interview …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: There is no big surprise here. Notice the dearth of British coverage on how leaving the EU was always going to be a double whammy with the virus crises. EU reporting on working […]
The currency markets are currently facing “multiple cross-currents” on rising global concerns over a potential second wave of Covid-19, said Deutsche Bank’s chief Asia macro strategist Sameer Goel. According to him, the “big question” for investors right now is whether the US dollar should be trading at a safe-haven risk […]