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25.05 / 14:31

Watch live: Johnson to speak as report blames 'senior leadership' for illegal parties

The "partygate" scandal which engulfed Boris Johnson and his close team earlier this year returns to centre stage on Wednesday with the publication of the much-awaited official report.

25.05 / 07:31

Kyiv Documenting war crimes in Ukraine: Survivors describe horrors outside of Kyiv

Behind the destroyed walls of the cities of Ukraine lie hundreds of tales of torture, mass rapes, and murder of civilians.

24.05 / 23:49

School Attack News two dead Texas shooting: 'Two dead, over a dozen injured' at elementary school

Two people were dead and more than a dozen children hospitalized as multiple medical centers cared for people injured in a shooting at a Texas elementary school, hospital officials said Tuesday. Police have said the suspected shooter is in custody.

24.05 / 22:39

Military Ukraine war enters 'most active phase of full-scale Russian aggression'

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia's assault on Ukraine's eastern front is the "largest" seen in Europe since World War Two.

24.05 / 20:13

Fraud Climate change Igor Dodon: Former Moldovan President arrested on suspicion of corruption

The former president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, was arrested on Tuesday after a raid on his home and a string of other private addresses.

24.05 / 20:13

exhibition Climate change end Three months on, Russia's war in Ukraine has no end in sight

The war was expected to be over in a couple of days, according to most analysts: a quick offensive, a government on the run, and victory declared.

24.05 / 19:29

NATO Sexual assault As Sweden and Finland seek to join NATO, just 4 EU states could be left out of the alliance

Spurred by Russia's aggression on Ukraine, Sweden and Finland have both formally requested to join NATO and if accepted would leave to just four the number of European Union member states not in the trans-Atlantic military alliance.

24.05 / 18:01

Sexual assault Deal EU may reach deal on Russian oil ban 'in a matter of weeks', Ursula von der Leyen tells Euronews

A deal on a stalled proposal to introduce an EU-wide ban on Russian oil imports could be reached "in a matter of weeks," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is one of the staunchest advocates behind the measure.

24.05 / 17:57

Government Stablecoin Bitcoin regulatory Enforcement and adoption: What do UK’s recent regulatory aims for crypto mean?

In April, the United Kingdom’s Economic and Finance Ministry, also known as Her Majesty’s Treasury, announced its intention to put the United Kingdom at the forefront of technology by bringing stablecoins under the country’s payments regulation — a bold move that looks especially intriguing in contrast to the recent shock, caused by TerraUSD’s (UST) depegging.

24.05 / 12:51

Sexual assault Prison Russian court upholds nine-year prison sentence for Alexei Navalny

An appeals court in Russia has upheld a nine-year prison sentence for opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

24.05 / 12:29

Sexual assault Boris Johnson: New 'partygate' photos emerge, as PM waits official report

New photographs have emerged of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson raising a glass in front of a group of people, with snacks and several wine bottles on a table in front of him.

24.05 / 09:45

Blockchain Stablecoin Law Decoded: The long waves in the aftermath of UST’s crash, May 16-23

It’s been two weeks since the shock of the TerraUSD (UST) depegging, but the long waves of this event are still coming in. The Congressional Research Service described the UST crash as a “run-like” scenario and claimed that the crypto industry has not reached the same level of “adequate regulating” as the traditional finance market.

24.05 / 08:21

Sexual assault Ukraine live: Russia is waging “total war” on Ukraine, says President Zelenskyy

Today marks the three-month anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last night accusing Russia of inflicting as many casualties and as much infrastructure destruction as possible.

21.05 / 00:37

Law Stablecoin regulation crypto rules FCA will 'absolutely' consider recent stablecoin depegging when drafting crypto rules: Report

Sarah Pritchard, the executive director of markets at the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, reportedly said the regulator will look at the recent volatility in the crypto markets when creating rules for the space in 2022.

16.05 / 12:59

business ETF Bitcoin Bitcoin investment giant Grayscale debuts ETF in Europe

Crypto investment giant Grayscale is expanding operations by launching a new crypto-linked exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe.

16.05 / 11:33

Stablecoin regulation bills UK treasury UK Treasury en route to legalizing stablecoins amid Terra's UST crash

United Kingdom’s Department of Treasury, or Her Majesty's Treasury, has reportedly decided to go ahead with regulating stablecoins as legal tender. While welcomed by the crypto community, the decision comes as a shocker due to its proximity to the recent fall of one of the most popular algorithmic stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST).

16.05 / 08:09

business Investments goldman sachs UK crypto Goldman Sachs and Barclays invest in UK crypto trading platform Elwood

Banking giants Goldman Sachs and Britain’s Barclays have joined a $70 million Series A funding round for the institutional crypto trading platform Elwood Technologies, founded by billionaire British hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

15.05 / 09:53

Law regulation Court UK Court recognizes NFTs as ‘private property’ — What now?

At the beginning of May, the British Web3 community celebrated an important legal precedent — the High Court of Justice in London, the closest analog to the United States Supreme Court, has ruled that nonfungible tokens (NFT) represent “private property.” There is a caveat, though: In the court’s ruling, this private property status does not extend to the actual underlying content that NFT represents. Cointelegraph reached out to legal experts to understand what this decision could possibly change in the British legal landscape.

12.05 / 15:49

Art Do Western Balkan countries like Macron's idea for a two-tier Europe?

France's President Emmanuel Macron has pitched one of the biggest reforms to the EU structure in decades - the idea of a second tier of countries outside the bloc that share the bloc's values and geography.

12.05 / 11:13

NATO Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial over Russia's invasion

Ukraine’s top prosecutor has disclosed plans for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion.

12.05 / 10:13

NATO 'Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay,' says country's president and prime minister

Finland's leaders are set to announce their positions on whether the country should join the NATO military alliance.

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