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Cash-strapped Venezuela on Tuesday became the first country to launch its own version of bitcoin, a move President Nicolas Maduro celebrated as putting his country on the world’s technological forefront. In its first hours on the market, the so-called petro…
Hawaii’s nuclear missile scare showed that the state began testing alerts before fully developing a plan to address the ballistic missile threat and that a public outreach campaign months earlier wasn’t effective, said a report released Tuesday. The state Department…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has yet to see if North Korea’s statement that it is ready to hold talks with Washington is a “first step” to removing nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula, and pressure on Pyongyang must…
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake occurred in the waters off Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. No information on victims or destruction has appeared so far. According to the preliminary information, no tsunami warning was issued for Papua New Guinea as well as there…
RIGA (Sputnik) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin are among foreign nationals on the so-called “Magnitsky list” in Latvia, local media reported Sunday. On Thursday, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said that, implementing…
Samir Nasri has been banned from football following the investigation into the intravenous drip treatment he received at a Los Angeles clinic. The player’s legal representative in the case told Press Association Sport that a six-month suspension has been imposed…
