NFT bubble gets that shrinking feeling
The NFT bubble isn’t popping, but it may have sprung a leak.
A year on from when a single non-fungible token sold for $69.3 million in crypto at Christie’s ...
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Wins for Liverpool and Man City in Champions League
Liverpool took a firm grip of their Champions League tie with Benfica as goals from Ibrahima Konate, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz earned them a 3-1 victory in Lisbon in ...
Greece offers second COVID booster for people over 60
Greece will offer a second COVID-19 booster dose for people aged 60 and above, at least four months after the previous shot, Greek health officials said on Tuesday.
“The relative platform ...
Ukraine leader tells top U.N. body to make Russia accountable for ‘war crimes’
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that “accountability must be inevitable” for Russia as he accused invading Russian troops of committing “the most terrible ...
EU unveils new sanctions on Moscow, Kyiv mayor calls for halt to ‘bloody money’
The European Union’s executive proposed sweeping new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, including a ban on coal imports, as the West responds to evidence of civilian killings in a ...
Putin says world faces food crisis due to West’s sanctions
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia must keep a close eye on its food exports to hostile countries because the West’s sanctions had fomented a global food ...
Italy says Ukraine war crimes must be punished, expels Russian diplomats
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that “war crimes” carried out in Ukraine must be punished, while Rome said it was expelling 30 Russian diplomats on national security grounds.
In a ...
Kremlin says Bucha is a ‘monstrous forgery’ aimed at smearing Russia (Updated)
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western allegations Russian forces committed war crimes by executing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were a “monstrous forgery” aimed at denigrating the ...
Rooney would choose Pochettino over Ten Hag for Man United manager
Wayne Rooney said he would pick Paris St Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino over Ajax Amsterdam manager Erik ten Hag to take over his former club Manchester United.
British media has ...
UK to ban celebrities popular with under-18s from gambling ads
Gambling advertisements in Britain featuring celebrities, sports people and social media influencers popular with the under-18s will be banned under a new ruling designed to protect children in one ...
Safe in Greece, Ukrainian children confront trauma of war
The drawings in a makeshift classroom in Athens tell the story of children who escaped war. Combat scenes – a helicopter dropping bombs, burning buildings, tanks and bodies on the ground – ...
Removing carbon from air vital to reach climate goals, IPCC says
By Alister Doyle
Extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by planting forests and developing controversial high-tech industries will be essential to meet global goals to curb climate change, a UN ...
Nigerian haven for endangered drill monkeys faces daunting pressures
By Seun Sanni
Sugar Ray is about 20 years old, a venerable age for a drill monkey whose life got off to a tragic start: clinging to his mother’s chest ...
Rangers concerned deep water port could threaten Congo’s sea turtles
By Hereward Holland
Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a ...
Russian auto boomtown grinds to halt over Ukraine sanctions
Thousands of auto workers have been furloughed and food prices are soaring as Western sanctions pummel the small Russian city of Kaluga and its flagship foreign carmakers, with more sanctions ...
US poor died at much higher rate from Covid than rich
Americans living in poorer counties died during the pandemic at almost twice the rate of those in rich counties, a study released Monday by the Poor People’s Campaign showed.
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‘Great relief’ for Red Cross as its team is freed in Ukraine
A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been released after being held in the Ukrainian town of Manhush while trying to reach the Russian-besieged city ...
Kuwait’s government resigns in latest standoff with parliament
Kuwait’s government submitted its resignation on Tuesday, state news agency KUNA reported, ahead of a no-confidence vote against the prime minister in parliament, amid a lengthy political feud that ...
Russia-Ukraine fallout starts felling fragile ‘frontier’ economies
The fallout of the Russia and Ukraine war has just helped tip two of world’s poorest countries into full-blown crises, and the list of those at risk – and the ...
US stops Russian bond payments in bid to raise pressure on Moscow
The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at US banks, in a move meant to ...
UK shoppers turn to own-label food as inflation bites, research shows
British shoppers are increasingly choosing own-label products to help counter surging inflation, according to research by NielsenIQ that showed overall supermarket spending down on a year ago when COVID lockdown ...
Satellite images indicate that Bucha civilian atrocities were not ‘staged’
Satellite images taken weeks ago of the town of Bucha in Ukraine show bodies of civilians on a street, a private U.S. company said, undercutting the Russian government’s ...
Denmark expels 15 Russian diplomats while Italy expels 30
Denmark and Italy announced on Tuesday that in total 45 Russian diplomats would be expelled from their respective countries.
Denmark said on Tuesday it would expel 15 Russian diplomats, in line with ...
Lebanon’s central bank not bankrupt, governor says
Lebanon Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Monday denied that the institution he has led for 30 years was bankrupt and said it was still going about its legally-mandated role despite ...