On the 8th of May 2022, the CEO of WhiteBIT cryptocurrency exchange Volodymyr Nosov announced on his Instagram that the company donated 10 million UAH to Volodymyr Zelensky’s United24 fund. The funds ...
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Fintechs delay IPO plans, focus on profitability amid recession fears
Investment in fintech is slowing as worries around rising inflation and the prospect of higher interest rates have dented economic sentiment. Elena Noviello | Moment | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Financi...
With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade
Any of these Black Sea ships, waiting to access a Romanian Port, can carry an anti ship missile. Getty Images In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break ...
Failure Or Savior? Busting Myths About Switchblade Loitering Munitions In Ukraine
When the Pentagon announced it was supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to Ukraine, the move was met with a wave of enthusiasm. Some people seemed to think the Switchblade was a super-weapon whic...
Warning Signs For The Next Oil Price Crash
Garden Grove, CA – March 07: High gas prices at stations on the corner of Valley View Street and … [+] Chapman Avenue in Garden Grove, CA, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen...
Russia, Ukraine Both Suffer Worst April In Two Decades For U.S. Trade
Newly released U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in looking at the month of April over the last two … [+] decades, both Russia and Ukraine suffered the steepest losses from March this year. Apr...
Former German Chancellor Merkel Defends Russia Policy Against Accusations Of Appeasement
Topline Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued Tuesday that Russia would have invaded Ukraine much earlier if not for steps by Germany and its allies, as German officials face accusations their...
Ukraine’s Cinemas, Museums And Theaters Start Reopening As Russia’s War Targets Cultural Sites
Topline The Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine, reopened over the weekend for the first time since Russia invaded the country, the Associated Press reports, marking the latest cultural institution in U...
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without enough to eat. Now, Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports has made it even harder for the world’s hungri...
Fiji Hands U.S. Seized $300 Million Russian Superyacht Owned By Oligarch
Topline Fiji has handed the U.S. a $300 million superyacht Washington claims is tied to billionaire gold magnate Suleimon Kerimov, the country’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday, ending a protracted leg...
Macron Is Putin’s Useful Idiot In Ukraine War
From the start of the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron has fluttered about like a busy buffoon with his dubious diplomacy. Now he is publicly calling for the Ukrainians to negotiate a ...
A Tale Of Four Empires
What did Britain, France and Spain get right, and why has Russia failed? Russian soldiers march through Red Square in Moscow. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images The British, French and Spanish empire...
Russia’s Ancient T-62 Tanks Are On The Move In Ukraine
T-62s in southern Ukraine. Social media capture After losing more than 700 of its best T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks in Ukraine in the first three months of fighting, the Russian army got pretty desperate...
Ukrainian Troops Counterattack In The South And East
Ukrainian troops with an ex-Norwegian M-109 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo After retreating from northern Ukraine in late March and early April, the battered Russian army—having lost as many as 15,000...
What Is Ukraine’s End Goal In Its War With Russia? Voices From The Battlefield.
Injured child after Russian shelling of Mariupol, Ukraine. February 27, 2022 Evgeny Maloletka It has been over 100 days since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The fight rages on, taki...
Putin’s War Kills At Least Two Children Every Day in Ukraine
Children, the most vulnerable members of societies, are most affected by the consequences of war. During conflict situations, children face the threat of killings, abuse, sexual violence, abductions, ...
Watch As A Russian ‘Flamethrower’ Launcher Opens Fire—And Ukrainian Guns Shoot Back A Minute Later
A Russian TOS-1 firing in eastern Ukraine. Social media capture A dramatic duel between a Russian “flamethrowing” rocket launcher and Ukrainian artillery somewhere in eastern Ukraine recently undersco...
How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is a Litmus Test for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
This is a principled stand, and it is consistent with the guiding ethos of the cryptocurrency community. After all, these markets serve as an alternative to those dominated by governmental policy inte...
How the U.S. Space Force plans to police outer space
Outer space is getting crowded, with both commercial endeavors and secretive military projects. And it’s going to be up to the newest United States military branch, the Space Force, to protect A...
Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire
After being drummed out of Silicon Valley as a Trump-supporting hawk, the onetime VR wunderkind Palmer Luckey is feeling vindicated. His $8 billion defense tech startup, Anduril, is arming Ukraine and...
Ukraine Isn’t Just Getting American-Made Killer Drones. It’s Getting A Whole System For Remote Warfare.
An MQ-1C with Hellfire missiles. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden plans to offer to Ukraine the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle, the U.S. Army’s best unmanned aerial veh...
OPEC Move Is Not Worth Biden’s Hype, And Won’t Stop Record Gasoline Prices
Biden speaking by video with a different cartel, of baby formula makers, June 1, 2020. © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Another day, another record for gasoline prices, which hit an average of $4.715 a gal...
Russia Controls 20% Of Ukraine, Zelensky Says, As UN Civilian Death Toll Surpasses 4,000
Topline Russian troops now control about 20% of Ukrainian territory, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told Luxembourg’s Parliament on Thursday, and the country’s civilian death toll has surp...
Not So Fast – Switzerland Will Have Another Referendum on the F-35
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet takes off at the Payerne Air Base during flight and … [+] ground tests, as Switzerland is looking for a new fighter jet to replace its aging fleet...
Steve Forbes Rips Biden Ukraine Response
This segment of What’s Ahead deals with a basic question: Do Joe Biden and his team really want Ukraine to win this war? Ukraine desperately needs particular kinds of advanced ground and air weapons ...
Ukraine May Get U.S. Attack Drones That Can Strike Moscow
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone at the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition … [+] (ADEX) at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, on Oct. 18, 2021. SeongJoon Cho/Bloo...
U.S. Reportedly Aiming To Sell Ukraine Faster And More Powerful Armed Drones
Topline The Biden Administration plans to sell four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine, Reuters reported Wednesday, potentially giving Ukraine access to much larger, more sophisticated and more heavil...
Ukraine Could Get German Air-Defenses. They Might Prevent Devastating Bombing Raids By Russian Planes.
IRIS-T SL during testing. Diehl photo Germany has announced it will supply Ukraine with its latest air-defense system. This might help the Ukrainians ward off carpet-bombing raids by Russian bombers a...
Zelensky Says He Won’t Attack Russian Territory—But Russia Blasts U.S. For Sending Rockets To Ukraine
Topline Ukraine is “not interested” in attacking Russian territory and only intends to use foreign supplied weapons to drive out invading forces from its own land, the country’s president Volodymyr Ze...
Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by the Fed and Ukraine war
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon say...