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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's two episodes of freezing up while speaking in public appear not to be the result of a stroke or seizure disorder, Congress's doctor said in a statement on Tuesday that did not explain what caused the incidents.

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If you are investing in Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS), Public Provident Fund (PPF), Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana or any other Post Office small savings scheme, you should submit your Aadhaar to the concerned post office or bank branch in September. Not doing so may result in your small savings account getting frozen. However, there is no need to worry if you have already submitted your Aadhaar earlier.

The government of South Korea is reportedly planning to submit a bill that will track and freeze North Korean crypto and virtual assets that are used to fund its capital Pyongyang's illicit weapons program. 

Mitch McConnell's health has come under scrutiny once again following a second instance of him freezing up during a media event. The 81-year-old Kentucky senator, who has held significant political positions since 1984, faced a similar episode in July while addressing reporters in Washington. The latest occurrence, observed in Covington, Kentucky, raises questions about McConnell's ability to fulfill his congressional duties and leadership role amidst concerns about his well-being.

U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, appeared to freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event in his home state of Kentucky on Wednesday, the second such episode in just over a month.Video taken by other reporters at the event appeared to show the 81-year-old senator trailing off and staring straight ahead for about 10 seconds after he was asked whether he plans to run for re-election in 2026.

Brazilian police have asked courts to freeze the crypto holdings of suspected electronics-trading fraudsters as part of a “mega operation.”

In a series of unfortunate events, the Multichain protocol, a cross-chain router protocol, has been left in a state of uncertainty following the arrest of its CEO, Zhaojun, on May 21, 2023. The arrest led to a series of operational disruptions, including the revocation of operational access keys to the Multichain's MPC node servers, which were under Zhaojun's personal control.

A blockchain developer who claims to have reverse-engineered the source code of Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency has discovered functions in the code that would allow a central authority to freeze funds or reduce balances. 

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to lift the moratorium on idle spectrum in insolvency resolution cases involving telecom companies, people familiar with details said. The government last month tweaked the IBC rules to exempt production and revenue-sharing contracts, exploration licences and mining leases of insolvent petroleum firms from moratorium, raising expectations of a similar dispensation for the telecom sector even ahead of the proposed Telecom Bill.

USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has frozen $63 million belonging to three wallet addresses associated with the hack of the cross-chain bridge platform Multichain.

Binance.US and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed on a compromise that avoids the freezing of the exchange's assets.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been ordered to repatriate and maintain within the country all its U.S. customers' assets, ensuring Binance.US users can access funds while the exchange battles a lawsuit by federal regulators.

Binance.US and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to work on an arrangement that will allow the exchange to avoid freezing all of its assets.

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Binance.US and the US Securities and Exchange Commission are trying to reach a solution in order to avoid a total asset freeze.

A June 12 AAVE (AAVE) proposal aimed at preventing a particular account from accumulating more debt has led to controversy, with some participants arguing that the proposal violates the principle of censorship-resistance or “neutrality” in decentralized finance, or DeFi.

Securities and Exchange Commission to strike a compromise with Binance that would allow the global cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the United States as it fights a civil fraud lawsuit filed by the regulator. Last week, the SEC charged Binance and its U.S. affiliate with mishandling customers' deposits and lying to regulators. It also sought to freeze the company's U.S. assets, a move that Binance claimed would force it to shut down in the United States. At a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asked the two sides to confer on a possible agreement over the asset freeze, telling them that they were closer to a deal than the rhetoric in their court filings suggested. Jackson ordered them to continue negotiating and to submit a status update by Thursday. She also expressed skepticism about the SEC's use of its enforcement powers to regulate the crypto world, calling it «inefficient and cumbersome.»

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and BAM Trading (Binance’s U.S. arm) recently filed a request for a consent order that would ease some of the restrictions from a previous SEC request to freeze the company’s assets. 

Binance.US has asked the court to deny the securities regulator’s proposed temporary restraining order against its assets, claiming that the move would “effectively end” its business.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed an emergency action to freeze the assets of crypto exchange Binance's U.S. subsidiary, repatriate the assets held on behalf of its customers, and seek other emergency relief actions against other Binance-affiliated entities.