В Сирии — мрачняк: антиправительственные вооружённые радикалы из Свободной сирийской армии и запрещённой «Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам» вошли в Алеппо и убили много военных. Из города бегут мирные люди.
Повстанцы срывают на улицах плакаты с портретами действующего президента Сирии Асада. Сирийские власти официально пока ситуацию не комментировали.
В Сирии — мрачняк: антиправительственные вооружённые радикалы из Свободной сирийской армии и запрещённой «Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам» вошли в Алеппо и убили много военных. Из города бегут мирные люди.
Повстанцы срывают на улицах плакаты с портретами действующего президента Сирии Асада. Сирийские власти официально пока ситуацию не комментировали.
Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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