Putin Signs Law Legalizing Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrencies, Lifting Them Out Of Russian Legal ‘Grey-Zone’
3 August 2020. RT: Digital financial assets, including cryptocurrencies, will be permitted to сirculate legally in Russia soon,…
Microsoft Confirms Talks Seeking To Buy U.S. Arm Of Tiktok
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft confirmed Sunday it is in talks with Chinese company ByteDance to acquire…
SpaceX Dragon Astronauts Safely Back On Earth After Florida Splashdown
2 August 2020. ABC News: The first NASA-SpaceX astronauts have safely returned to Earth after more than two…
Search And Rescue Effort Concludes For Missing Marines, All 8 Presumed Deceased
2 August 2020. ABC News: After an extensive 40-hour search, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), I Marine…
Twitter Hack: US And UK Teens Arrested Over Breach Of Celebrity Accounts
The Guardian, UK: Authorities have charged three men in a major Twitter breach this month that hacked…
Court Orders Yair Netanyahu To Remove Tweet Doxing Protest Leaders
The Times of Israel: The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday ordered Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, to…
Reopening From The Great Lockdown: Uneven And Uncertain Recovery
‘Reopening From The Great Lockdown: Uneven And Uncertain Recovery’ By Gita Gopinath. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed economies…
South Africa Economy Could Contract 8.2% If Second COVID-19 Wave Hits, OECD Says
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s economy could contract 8.2% this year, and grow just 0.6% in 2021,…