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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 BREAKING: The words 'Toofan Al-Harar' / 'The Storm of Fire' are now displayed on every Iranian TV Channel
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🚨🚨🚨 JUST IN : EU 🇪🇺 regulators may require DeFi frontends to obtain a MiCA license in 2025.
Only KYC compliant online frontends will be allowed, publishing normal DeFi frontend internet domains impossible.
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“Heard today that there’s a good chance all EU national financial regulators will interpret DeFi frontends to require a MiCA license. This would make DeFi frontends on normal internet domains, as we know them today, impossible. Only fully decentralized, local, downloaded frontends…” - Rune from Maker DAO on upcoming Euro regulations. - 𝕏/@RuneKek
“Heard today that there’s a good chance all EU national financial regulators will interpret DeFi frontends to require a MiCA license. This would make DeFi frontends on normal internet domains, as we know them today, impossible. Only fully decentralized, local, downloaded frontends…” - Rune from Maker DAO on upcoming Euro regulations. - 𝕏/@RuneKek
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🇺🇸 ❌️ 🛢 US Cancels Latest Oil Reserve Refill Plan Amid High Prices
🔶️ The Biden administration won’t move forward with its latest plans to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising prices.
🔶️ The Energy Department said it was “keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront” in its decision not to purchase as many as 3 million barrels of oil for a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Louisiana. The plan for the barrels to be delivered in August and September had been announced in mid-March.
🔶️ “We will not award the current solicitations for the Bayou Choctaw SPR site and will solicit available capacity as market conditions allow,” the department said. “We will continue to monitor market dynamics.”
🔶️ The move follows a rally in crude prices, with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate on Tuesday breaking above $85 a barrel for the first time since October. The Biden administration has a target to buy oil at $79 or lower to refill the reserve, though spent an average of about $81 a barrel in its latest purchase of 2.8 million barrels late last month.
🔶️ The Energy Department has been slowly refilling the emergency oil supply after it reached a 40-year-low following the administration’s unprecedented drawdown of a record 180 million barrels in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It currently holds about 363 million barrels, according to Energy Department data, down from almost 600 million at the start of 2022.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/us-cancels-latest-oil-reserve-refill-plan-amid-high-prices
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🔶️ The Biden administration won’t move forward with its latest plans to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising prices.
🔶️ The Energy Department said it was “keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront” in its decision not to purchase as many as 3 million barrels of oil for a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Louisiana. The plan for the barrels to be delivered in August and September had been announced in mid-March.
🔶️ “We will not award the current solicitations for the Bayou Choctaw SPR site and will solicit available capacity as market conditions allow,” the department said. “We will continue to monitor market dynamics.”
🔶️ The move follows a rally in crude prices, with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate on Tuesday breaking above $85 a barrel for the first time since October. The Biden administration has a target to buy oil at $79 or lower to refill the reserve, though spent an average of about $81 a barrel in its latest purchase of 2.8 million barrels late last month.
🔶️ The Energy Department has been slowly refilling the emergency oil supply after it reached a 40-year-low following the administration’s unprecedented drawdown of a record 180 million barrels in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It currently holds about 363 million barrels, according to Energy Department data, down from almost 600 million at the start of 2022.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/us-cancels-latest-oil-reserve-refill-plan-amid-high-prices
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US Cancels Latest Oil Reserve Refill Plan Amid High Prices
The Biden administration won’t move forward with its latest plans to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising prices.
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The project seeks to build a "usable" solution to integrate tokenized commercial bank deposits with central bank money using smart contracts and programmability, officials at the Bank for International Settlements said.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/imf-world-bank-bis-first-tokenisation-collaboration-2023-11-28/
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/03/central-bank-group-starts-tokenization-project-to-enhance-monetary-system/
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IMF, World Bank and BIS in first 'tokenisation' collaboration
Three of the world's cornerstone institutions - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements - are to work together for the first time to "tokenise" some of the financial instruments that underpin their global…
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ℹ️ Note: Apple services including the App Store and Apple Music are experiencing international service outages at the present time; incident not related to country-level internet restrictions or filtering #AppleDown
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ICYMI: There's now Coinbase Litecoin Futures!
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ICYMI: There's now Coinbase Litecoin Futures!
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NEW: Big banks are now reaching out to #Bitcoin miners directly to buy #Bitcoin because of "supply shortages on exchanges."
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🇪🇺❌ 🇺🇸 💸 🤝 🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 Politico | NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan | Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief | April 3, 2024:
"BRUSSELS — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg wants a revolution in how the alliance finances and arms Ukraine, but his plan drew a mixed response from NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday.
The secretary-general's idea is to take the politics and uncertainty out of military aid to Ukraine by setting up a five-year, €100 billion fund and having the alliance shoulder more of the weight in organizing arms for Kyiv.
"We must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul," Stoltenberg said ahead of the meeting, "so that we rely less on voluntary contributions and more on NATO commitments. Less on short-term offers and more on multi-year pledges.
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After the presentation, some ministers rolled their eyes at the €100 billion number, wondering where it came from, said a diplomat speaking on condition of being granted anonymity.
Hadja Lahbib, Belgium's foreign minister, warned: "It is dangerous to make promises that we cannot keep."
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"BRUSSELS — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg wants a revolution in how the alliance finances and arms Ukraine, but his plan drew a mixed response from NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday.
The secretary-general's idea is to take the politics and uncertainty out of military aid to Ukraine by setting up a five-year, €100 billion fund and having the alliance shoulder more of the weight in organizing arms for Kyiv.
"We must ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for the long haul," Stoltenberg said ahead of the meeting, "so that we rely less on voluntary contributions and more on NATO commitments. Less on short-term offers and more on multi-year pledges.
(...)
After the presentation, some ministers rolled their eyes at the €100 billion number, wondering where it came from, said a diplomat speaking on condition of being granted anonymity.
Hadja Lahbib, Belgium's foreign minister, warned: "It is dangerous to make promises that we cannot keep."
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NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan – POLITICO
Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.
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"TAIPEI -- TSMC and Foxconn are not the only Taiwanese tech companies feeling compelled to expand abroad. Suppliers of chip and electronics tools, materials and plant builders are also venturing beyond the island as top clients undertake their biggest overseas expansion in decades.
Lai Ming-Kuen, general manager of facility builder Acter, said his company's Southeast Asian business surged 50% last year, outperforming its core markets of Taiwan and China. "This growth is expected to continue in 2024," Lai told Nikkei Asia.
Acter builds electronics plants and cleanrooms for tech companies like Foxconn, Delta Electronics, Wistron and ASE Technology Holding.
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Geopolitical tensions, combined with a growing focus on supply chain resilience, have triggered a significant shift in the tech industry. After decades of concentrating production in China and Taiwan, electronic assemblers such as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron, along with major chip suppliers from TSMC to UMC, are setting up operations in new locations across Southeast Asia, Japan and even Europe.
China's lukewarm economy is another motivation for upstream suppliers to venture into new markets. The slowdown in Asia's biggest economy has intensified competition and price wars, according to industry executives. Expanding outside the country offers the potential for new growth. Frank Liang, general manager of C Sun, told Nikkei Asia that his company is looking to expand to Thailand and Malaysia, while also considering branching out to Japan."
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Investments elsewhere begin to pay off as China market matures
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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Trump says Israel is 'losing the PR war'
🔶️ During his Thursday interview with Hewitt, Trump doubled down on his past remarks, saying that Israel was “releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it,” Trump said.
🔶️ “I don’t know why they released wartime shots like that. I guess it makes them look tough. But to me, it doesn’t make them look tough,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”
🔶️ When asked twice by Hewitt if Trump is “still standing 100 percent with Israel,” the former president did not answer the question directly.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/trump-israel-gaza-war-00150577
🔶️ During his Thursday interview with Hewitt, Trump doubled down on his past remarks, saying that Israel was “releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it,” Trump said.
🔶️ “I don’t know why they released wartime shots like that. I guess it makes them look tough. But to me, it doesn’t make them look tough,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”
🔶️ When asked twice by Hewitt if Trump is “still standing 100 percent with Israel,” the former president did not answer the question directly.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/trump-israel-gaza-war-00150577
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Trump used to brag about his support for Israel. Now his criticisms are growing sharper.
“I don’t know why they released wartime shots like that. I guess it makes them look tough. But to me, it doesn’t make them look tough,” Trump said.
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📢 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Elon Musk in response to John Stossel on X:
"Venezuela has a great wealth of natural resources. If Chavez had not destroyed their economy by increasing the role of government to extreme socialism, the country would be very prosperous."
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"Venezuela has a great wealth of natural resources. If Chavez had not destroyed their economy by increasing the role of government to extreme socialism, the country would be very prosperous."
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🇪🇨 ❌️ 🇲🇽 Ecuador Declares Mexico Ambassador Persona Non Grata, Orders Her to Leave
🔶️ Ecuador's government declared Mexico's ambassador to the country unwelcome on Thursday due to what it cited as "unfortunate" comments from the Mexican president about the South American country's elections last year.
🔶️ Ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke should leave the country "soon," Ecuador's foreign ministry told Reuters, after describing her as "persona non grata" in a statement.
🔶️ The day before, Mexico's leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador commented on last year's assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, comparing his killing to recent violence seen in Mexico's current election season in which several local candidates have already been gunned down.
🔶️ In his remarks at a regular government press conference, Lopez Obrador asserted that Ecuador's leftist presidential hopeful, Luisa Gonzalez was unfairly tied to the killing of Villavicencio, and went on to blame media he said were corrupt.
🔶️ Gonzalez, a protégé of ex-President Rafael Correa, lost the presidential contest to Daniel Noboa last October, with the latter taking office in November on a promise to combat drug gangs and tame spiking violence.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-04-04/ecuador-declares-mexico-ambassador-persona-non-grata
🔶️ Ecuador's government declared Mexico's ambassador to the country unwelcome on Thursday due to what it cited as "unfortunate" comments from the Mexican president about the South American country's elections last year.
🔶️ Ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke should leave the country "soon," Ecuador's foreign ministry told Reuters, after describing her as "persona non grata" in a statement.
🔶️ The day before, Mexico's leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador commented on last year's assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, comparing his killing to recent violence seen in Mexico's current election season in which several local candidates have already been gunned down.
🔶️ In his remarks at a regular government press conference, Lopez Obrador asserted that Ecuador's leftist presidential hopeful, Luisa Gonzalez was unfairly tied to the killing of Villavicencio, and went on to blame media he said were corrupt.
🔶️ Gonzalez, a protégé of ex-President Rafael Correa, lost the presidential contest to Daniel Noboa last October, with the latter taking office in November on a promise to combat drug gangs and tame spiking violence.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-04-04/ecuador-declares-mexico-ambassador-persona-non-grata
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Ecuador Declares Mexico Ambassador Persona Non Grata
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's government declared Mexico's ambassador to the country unwelcome due to what it cited as "unfortunate" comments from the Mexican president about the South American country's elections last year, officials announced on Thursday.
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