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The British prime minister has said he would “take responsibility” after attending a garden party at Downing Street during a May 2020 lockdown. If he had the chance again, he’d have sent people back inside. Speaking to Parliament on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to apologize …

Kazakh security forces have moved on rioters in Almaty, with heavy gunfire heard in the city center near the charred administration building. Police say they repelled an “attack” on their HQ, leaving some attackers dead. A new attempt to dislodge violent protesters from the city center was apparently launched by …

Bitcoin may overtake gold’s market share in 2022, a Goldman Sachs analyst has said in a research note to clients, as cryptocurrencies and digital assets surge in price and attract increasingly more investor interest. According to a list of 2022 predictions from the bank’s analyst Zach Pandl, Bitcoin will “most …

Following probes by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, JPMorgan officially acknowledged that from at least 2015, its Wall Street employees used personal devices to send texts, WhatsApp messages, and emails to communicate with clients on sensitive business matters. This is a violation of …

“The initial public offering is expected to occur after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions,” Reddit Inc. said in a statement released on Wednesday. According to the company, neither the number of shares that would be offered nor the price range for the stock …

According to London’s The Times, which reported about the new policy on Sunday, the company aims to triple the number of black, Asian and other minority staff in middle and senior leadership roles by 2023. The paper also stated that failing to achieve equality targets would result in lower bonuses …

On Saturday, CNN aired ‘The ABCs of COVID Vaccines: A CNN/Sesame Street Townhall for Families’, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Erica Hill, in which numerous recognizable children’s characters like Elmo and Big Bird recommended children get their Covid-19 jabs now that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the …

The New York-based researchers, who had previously projected the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency to hit $100,000 by the year’s end, now say that the ProShares ETF may attract substantial inflows from investors, thus boosting the price of bitcoin. According to Fundstrat, the new bitcoin futures ETF will deliver higher first-year …

When activists began setting up tents in lower Manhattan 10 years ago, inspired in part by the Arab Spring and in part by the sheer rapacious greed of banks that had gambled with Americans’ money, lost it, and demanded to be made whole, the narrative managers fell into two camps.  …

Now, a number of developments, including an essay in Russia’s liberal-leaning flagship newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, suggest that some are finally recognising a new approach is required. Last week the International Council on Central and East European Studies held its congress, where I attended a roundtable on the topic of Homo …