Interpol said a crypto wallet linked to a 20-year-old fraud suspect processed more than $122.5 million over 10 months. Police in Thailand arrested two people in a money-laundering investigation involving romance-scam proceeds moved through crypto and cross-chain token swaps. The swaps were used to obscure the financial trail, Interpol said in a July 9 account…
Police respond to an active shooter at the Salsa on St. Clair event in Toronto, Saturday, July 11, 2026. Keito Newman/The Canadian Press hide caption toggle caption Keito Newman/The Canadian Press At least two people are dead and at least four people are injured after a shooting at a festival in Toronto on Saturday night….
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who ruled Qatar from 1995 to 2013, will be laid to rest at Lusail Cemetery in Doha. Published On 12 Jul 202612 Jul 2026 Funeral prayers have been held for the Father Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, following his death at the age of 74….
The US insists the Strait of Hormuz is open, despite Iran saying it has closed the waterway amid renewed strikes. Hostilities, which flared up again this week, continued on Saturday after the US said it had struck more than 140 targets across Iran. The attacks were a response to Iranian forces hitting a ship passing…
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 71. He died on Saturday evening following a “brief and sudden illness”, according to his office. Elected to the Senate in 2002, the South Carolina politician was one of Washington’s most influential voices on foreign policy, often…
In brief TikTok Shop generated $64.3 billion in global sales in 2025, nearly doubling year-over-year, and sellers can open a store with zero followers. A complete AI ad—virtual model, scripted dialogue, 10-second video—can be produced with GPT Image 2, ChatGPT, and Google Flow’s Gemini Omni for roughly a dollar of compute or less. CapCut handles…
The combined market capitalization of major stablecoins fell from roughly $166 billion in March 2022 to $122 billion by September 2023, RWA.xyz data shows — a decline of over 26% as investors pulled money from the digital asset market. Tether’s USDT fell from $78 billion to $65 billion between March and November 2022. For USDC,…
In keeping with its policy of routinely assessing listed assets for liquidity, trading activity, and general market health, Binance has announced the removal of five spot trading pairs as part of its market quality review process. The exchange states that on July 10, 2026, at 03:00 UTC, the impacted pairs were taken off the market….
Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) chairman Bilal bin Saqib has called for continued dialogue on the treatment of digital assets under Islamic law after meeting prominent scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani, who backed a ruling against purchases made with crypto. In a Saturday post, Saqib said the discussion covered blockchain technology, digital assets, stablecoins and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday he had proposed replacing Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko as part of a broader government reshuffle aimed at implementing an “updated political strategy”.