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21.04 / 14:05

Marine Le Pen Russia 'makes first successful test' of nuclear-capable missile

Russia says it has performed the first successful test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

21.04 / 13:27

XRP cryptocurrency price today avalanche Bitcoin Top cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin, Solana, XRP, Avalanche shed up to 2%

Solana and XRP dropped 2 per cent each, followed by a per cent drop in Shiba Inu and Avalanche. The global cryptocurrency market cap was trading almost flat at $1.92 trillion mark, with marginal gains in the last 24 hours. However, the total cryptocurrency trading volume zoomed about 13 per cent to $90.79 billion.What's cooking in India?Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pitched for a global framework to regulate crytpo tokens, particularly their use in money laundering and terror financing.

21.04 / 13:15

cryptocurrency Bitcoin Time us sanctions Fresh US sanctions over Russia's war in Ukraine to hit a crypto mining firm for first time

The United States rolled out new sanctions on Wednesday against more than 40 individuals and entities accused of evading the ongoing wave of penalties imposed on Russia as punishment for invading Ukraine.

21.04 / 11:13

business Binance Bitcoin services Binance limits services in Russia due to the EU’s 5th package of sanctions

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is adopting major restrictions on users in Russia following the European Union’s fifth package of sanctions against Russia.

21.04 / 10:51

Bitcoin us sanctions Bitcoin Miner US Sanctions Russian Bitcoin Miner BitRiver to Prevent Russia from 'Monetizing its Natural Resources'

The US has imposed sanctions on a Russian Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto mining firm in a bid to deter Moscow's possible evasion of existing sanctions, imposed as punishment over its invasion of Ukraine.

21.04 / 09:39

cryptocurrency Target cryptocurrency news Bitcoin US Imposes Sanctions On Crypto Mining Firm Over Russian Operations

US has imposed sanctions on a crypto mining firm BitRiver over its Russian operations

21.04 / 07:57

negotiations Updates Ukraine war live updates: Ukrainian officials prepared to hold negotiations in Mariupol

Russian attacks have pounded the last Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged port city of Mariupol as the city's defenders holed up in a steel plant appeared to say they may only have a few days or hours left.

21.04 / 03:47

VISA Action Browder calls on UK to ban travel for US ‘enablers of Putin’

Hedge-fund founder Bill Browder says he plans to pressure British MPs and the UK government to take action against lawyers in the US who have acted for pals of Vladimir Putin.

21.04 / 01:25

Marine Le Pen debate French election: Macron and Le Pen clash on Russia, Europe, climate and economy in TV debate

Russia and Europe featured early as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clashed in their live televised debate on Wednesday night, four days before the decisive vote in France's presidential election.

21.04 / 00:25

Government regulation US Treasury Dept lists crypto mining firm in latest sanctions against Russia

The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions.

20.04 / 21:19

Marine Le Pen French election: Alexei Navalny says Le Pen too close to Putin and calls on voters to back Macron

The imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has called on French voters to opt for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the French presidential election, accusing his rival Marine Le Pen of being too close to Vladimir Putin.

20.04 / 21:19

Marine Le Pen peace No Ukraine peace demands received from Russia, says Zelenskyy

Ukraine has not received anything outlining Russia's demands for peace talks, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after Moscow said it had presented Kyiv with a document.

20.04 / 20:31

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20.04 / 19:15

Blockchain Ethereum interview Bitcoin Time BTC and ETH will break all-time highs in 2022 — Celsius CEO

During the recent Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Cointelegraph's Joseph Hall sat down with Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, to talk about several topics, including where the Bitcoin and Ether markets are going.

20.04 / 16:43

CEO Hendrik du Toit Hendrik du Toit: Russia sanctions could prove an ‘expensive decision’ for the West

Hendrik du Toit, one of the City’s longest-serving fund management chief executives, has warned that “weaponising finance” to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine could prove an “expensive decision” — one that could eventually give rise to a more fragmented financial system.

20.04 / 16:41

security Exchange services Crypto Exchange Currency.com Attacked After Halting Services in Russia

Currency.com, a Belarus-based online crypto trading platform, said it became a target of a failed cyber-attack on the day the exchange announced it was halting services for residents of Russia.

20.04 / 16:05

business Blockchain Adoption Ukrainian crypto and blockchain firms survive despite ongoing conflict

Many Ukraine-based businesses have had to shutter or suspend operations following the outbreak of the conflict with Russia on Feb. 24, but some in the cryptocurrency space have been able to keep running, albeit with many staff in bomb shelters, scattered across the world and facing an uncertain future.

20.04 / 15:19

Law Taxes foreign Tax Authority Russian tax authority proposes using crypto as a foreign trade payment tool

Russia's Federal Tax Service (FTS) has joined the debate around crypto regulation in Russia with an unexpectedly blunt proposition — to let Russian companies use digital currencies as a payment method when transacting internationally.

20.04 / 15:09

VISA Action Browder calls on UK to ban travel for US ‘enablers of Putin’

Hedge-fund founder Bill Browder says he plans to pressure British MPs and the UK government to take action against lawyers in the US who have acted for pals of Vladimir Putin.

20.04 / 13:51

Law Taxes Russia to include crypto into its tax code: Here is what the rules might look like

In the last few months, the standoff between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the country’s Ministry of Finance over crypto regulation has become the key regulatory plot for the Russian crypto community to follow. Simultaneously, however, another important legislative development has been unfolding somewhat under the radar: negotiations around tax code amendments that would make cryptocurrencies a taxable asset class. Here’s how it went down so far.

20.04 / 13:33

debate France's Macron and Le Pen set to face off in presidential debate

France's two presidential candidates will debate on Wednesday night in a highly anticipated test of their readiness for the upcoming runoff election.

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