Iraqis headed to the polls on Tuesday (November 11) to vote in a parliamentary election marked by tight security and a boycott by a political bloc. FRANCE 24’s Philip Turle gives us his analysis.
Peace without prosperity: Angola marks 50 years of independence
Angola declared its independence from Portugal on 11 November, 1975. But in a country where the majority of the population was born after the civil war, the celebrations give rise to a question: what does it mean to be free when peace has not brought …
Pakistan says ‘India proxies’ behind Islamabad bombing: What we know so far
‘Suicide’ blast at court complex kills 12, injures more than 30, a day after a deadly explosion in the Indian capital.
Indian police invoke ‘terror’ law as Modi alleges Delhi blast ‘conspiracy’
India’s ‘anti-terrorism’ force is leading the probe into the blast that killed 12 people in New Delhi on Monday.
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin — A Chinese woman described as a “s…
NATO member Romania finds drone fragments after Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports
Breaches of Romania’s airspace by drones have become more common as Russia targets Danube River ports just across the border in Ukraine.
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation — Vladimir Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter. …
Fraudster who hid in London is jailed over £5.5bn bitcoin scam
Zhimin Qian cheated 128,000 victims in China through a Ponzi scheme before going on the run for six yearsA fraudster has been jailed over a scam that led to the UK’s largest ever cryptocurrency seizure of bitcoin worth more than £5.5bn.Zhimin Qian, 47,…
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Write Files Anywhere on Target Systems
Ivanti has released critical security updates for Ivanti Endpoint Manager to address three high-severity vulnerabilities that could allow authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files to any location on affected systems. The company disclosed the se…
San Francisco Opera’s ‘The Monkey King’ ready to premiere with magical Kung Fu and puppetry
The Monkey King, a beloved figure in Chinese mythology, is now the star of an opera.