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German Green MEP Hannah Neumann accuses Europe of engaging in a 'step by step normalization' of the Taliban regime, sacrificing human rights principles for short term migration control deals.
On August 14, 2026, Bybit announced its TradFi Perpetual Contracts product had grown to over 200 curated listings spanning global equities, ETFs, commodities, and pre IPO assets [2].
A wave of research in August 2026 — including a study published in TechXplore and The Conversation, along with data from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, the Federal Reserve, Forrester, Gallup, and Robert Hal...
NATO's Baltic Trust 26 (BATT26) exercise ran from 3–14 August 2026 at Latvia's Sēlija training ground, co hosted by the Latvian National Armed Forces and the NATO Communications and Information Agency [1][7].
A new body of research published in August 2026 — spearheaded by a study covered on TechXplore and The Conversation on August 12, 2026, along with concurrent research from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, the...
Since November 2025, Mastercard, Ripple, Gemini, and WebBank have been piloting settlement of real Gemini Credit Card transactions using Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger.
Markets are pricing a 76% probability that the Bank of Japan will hike rates from 1.00% to 1.25% at its September 18 meeting, up dramatically from just 24% on July 30, driven by surging inflation, hawkish BO...
Norse Atlantic is in active talks to lease up to six Boeing 787 9s to Pakistan International Airlines and Biman Bangladesh Airlines, exploring both dry leases and ACMI/damp lease structures, as it scrambles...
ExfilSquad, a cybercrime group that emerged in July 2026, has been linked to data theft from at least 13 organizations across the U.S., UK, and Sweden by exploiting misconfigured Microsoft Power Pages portal...
The crypto ETF landscape during August 10–15, 2026 was defined by a sharp reversal for Bitcoin (a $144.6M outflow Monday, then a $626M three day rebound), continued Solana outperformance over Ethereum, cumul...
The FAO Food Price Index averaged 131.1 points in July 2026 — its highest since January 2023 — driven by war related supply disruptions, a strengthening El Niño, and surging energy and fertilizer costs.