Tag: threatens
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On 15th Anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin White Paper, Wall Street Threatens to Swallow Its One-Time Challenger
[ad_1] Also, CME Group, owner of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is close to overtaking Binance as the largest crypto derivatives exchange in the world. (CME’s product is a cash-settled futures contract, essentially a side bet on bitcoin’s price; no BTC changes hands). In other words, a business with roots in the 19th century and agricultural…
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Norsk Hydro warns flood of Chinese electric vehicles threatens aluminium demand in Europe
[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A major European aluminium producer has warned that the increasing numbers of imported electric cars from China could have a big impact on regional demand. Hilde Merete Aasheim, chief executive of Norsk Hydro, said…
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Canada Removes 41 Diplomats From India After New Delhi Threatens to Revoke Their Immunity – The Diplomat
[ad_1] Advertisement Canada has recalled 41 of its diplomats from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity, the foreign minister said Thursday, in an escalation of their dispute over the slaying of a Sikh separatist in Canada. The moves come after Canada’s allegations that India may have been involved in…
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Senate Democrat Threatens to Block a Chunk of Military Aid to Egypt
[ad_1] Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pledged on Saturday to block the release of $235 million in military aid to Egypt, a move that could force the Biden administration to reverse its decision to prioritize national security interests over Congress’s concerns about the country’s human rights…
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An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
[ad_1] The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against their friends, cradling aching heads in their hands. Helen Asaminew, the presiding nurse, was baffled. The students had the hallmark symptoms of malaria. But people…
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Philippines locals lose hope as China-funded bridge threatens ‘biologically priceless’ Paradise Reef
[ad_1] Paradise Reef must be protected at all costs because it is one of the few healthy reef areas in the Davao Gulf, said Cleto Nanola, a professor at the department of biological sciences and environmental studies at University of the Philippines Mindanao. “There will be major species lost because of habitat degradation and siltation…
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Erdoğan threatens to ‘part ways’ from EU after critical European Parliament report – POLITICO
[ad_1] Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday slammed a report from the European Parliament on the country’s EU accession talks and threatened to “part ways” from the bloc. Questioned by journalists about the report, Erdoğan said that “the EU is trying to break away from Turkey,” according to Turkish state media Anadolu Agency. “We…
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Republicans’ opposition to abortion threatens a global HIV program that has saved 25 million lives
[ad_1] The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived. Today, the orphanage in Kenya’s capital is a happier, more hopeful place for…
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Indonesia threatens to curb TikTok’s shopping platform
[ad_1] Receive free TikTok Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest TikTok Inc news every morning. Indonesia has threatened to curb TikTok’s shopping platform, months after the Chinese-owned viral video app said it would invest billions of dollars in the fast-growing south-east Asian country. The minister of co-operatives…
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Looming Electoral Disaster Threatens Taiwan’s Tariff Preferences
[ad_1] By: Jens Kastner With Taiwan’s January presidential and legislative elections dynamics strongly signaling that the anti-unification Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will stay in power and that the presidency will go to the current vice president Lai Ching-te, who is regarded as even more anti-China than the incumbent Tsai Ying-wen, it is increasingly likely that…