🇫🇷❌🇸🇦🏴 — 🇪🇺 Euronews: France deports Osama Bin Laden's son from Normandy village

➡️ France's Interior Minister announced Omar bin Laden was deported over accusations of glorifying terrorism on social media, while bin Laden has claimed his innocence.

➡️ France's Interior Minister announced Omar bin Laden had been deported from a Normandy village he was living in after he was accused of glorifying terrorism on social media.

➡️ In a post shared on X early Tuesday morning, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau accused Omar bin Laden of "posting comments on his social media accounts in 2023, which made an apology for terrorism".

➡️ Calling the matter "a decision of national security", the post did not detail when exactly Omar bin Laden had been deported nor reveal where he was sent to.

➡️ The administrative ban ensures that Mr. bin Laden cannot return to France, for any reason whatsoever," Retailleau said.

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🗣🤝🗣☮️ZELENSKY SUDDENLY READY FOR CEASEFIRE! -BILD

https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1844312734780760407

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🇪🇺❌🇭🇺 Hungarian premier, Viktor Orban, speaking in Strasbourg at the European Parliament:

I came here to present the program of the Hungarian EU presidency. And you have turned this meeting into a party-political clash. I am deeply sorry, but I will not be indebted to you, or any of you. If we are attacked, I will defend my country.

🔗 Zoltan Kovacs

🇪🇺❌🇭🇺 MEPs belonging to the EU's Green, Social-democrat (S&D) and liberal (RE) groups began singing the Italian antifascist song "Bella Ciao" the moment the speaker of the European Parliament announced Viktor Orban's entry into amphitheater.

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🇪🇺❌🇭🇺 Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stance

Pointed speech by EC president in Strasbourg rebukes Hungarian leader for economic and political policies

Ursula von der Leyen has accused Viktor Orbán of a historic failure to support Ukraine, economic mismanagement and making his country a “back door for foreign interference” in her sharpest public rebuke yet to Hungary’s strongman leader.

Von der Leyen was speaking after Orbán set out the priorities for Hungary’s six-month EU presidency, in an address where he sometimes offered a fairly conventional noscript calling for less regulation and efforts to bolster the EU’s single market.

After Orbán lamented Europe’s declining share of global trade, von der Leyen took him to task for Hungary’s economic policies such as taxes that target foreign companies, export restrictions, “arbitrary inspections” and public contracts awarded to a small group of beneficiaries.

While Orbán attempted to cast himself as a strong defender of European borders, she said Hungarian authorities had released convicted people smugglers and traffickers early from prison, adding: “This is not fighting illegal migration in Europe, this is not protecting our union, this is just throwing problems over your neighbour’s fence.”

Referring to an agreement that allows Chinese police to patrol with their local counterparts in Hungary, she said: “This is not defending Europe’s sovereignty, this is a back door for foreign interference.”

And she criticised Orbán for failing to follow through on an EU pledge made in 2022 to end dependency on Russian fossil fuels. “Instead of looking for alternative sources [of energy], in particular, one member state just looked for alternative ways to buy fossil fuels from Russia.”

The Hungarian leader said he was surprised by what he had heard from von der Leyen and accused her of turning the commission into “a political weapon”. He rejected any comparison between the events of 1956 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while reiterating that the EU, he believed, had a “losing strategy” over the war.

“We are never going to accept that European unity means that you tell us what to do and that we should keep quiet,” he said.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/ursula-von-der-leyen-attacks-viktor-orban-over-pro-russia-stance

📄 Crypto Market Review Q3-2024 by Bitwise

(Very interesting btw)

The report also captures the weak spots in crypto’s fundamentals—the things that in our opinion contributed to
the softness we saw in prices. Among the items that caught
our attention:

🟠 A drop in net revenue by leading blockchains, which fell 61.61% quarter-over-quarter to the lowest level since
Q1 2023.

🟠 Rising correlation between bitcoin and equities, which
hit its highest level since 2020 at 0.49. That still counts as “low” by academic standards, but it’s higher than many crypto investors like or are used to.

🟠 Mixed results on trading volume, VC activity, and other measures of “animal spirits,” which suggests a crypto market waiting for its next catalyst.

Ultimately, my guess is that the weakness is temporary. To that end, I’d direct your attention to page 5, a new feature
we’ve added to the report looking at key upcoming catalysts
for the space. We believe crypto is set up for a very strong
Q4 and that these catalysts could catapult prices to new
all-time highs.

There’s a lot of great information in this quarter’s report.
Enjoy!

https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.bitwiseinvestments.com/Research/Bitwise-Crypto-Market-Review-Q3-2024.pdf

@FelipeChannel

🇦🇷📈🇧🇷📉 ARGENTINA OVERTAKES BRAZIL IN CRYPTO INFLOWS

Argentina just grabbed the crown from Brazil with a mind-blowing $91 billion in crypto inflows from July 2023 to June 2024, according to Chainalysis.

Folks are diving into stablecoins to escape inflation, with 61.8% of transactions in stablecoins—way ahead of Brazil and the global average.

Tether’s shifting focus to Argentina too.

https://x.com/roundtablespace/status/1844357387261521994

https://es.cointelegraph.com/news/argentina-leads-latin-america-crypto-inflows

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🦅🚨👮‍♀️ SEC Charges Three So-Called Market Makers and Nine Individuals in Crackdown on Manipulation of Crypto Assets Offered and Sold as Securities

The Securities and Exchange Commission today (Oct. 9, 2024) announced fraud charges against three companies purporting to be market makers and nine individuals for engaging in schemes to manipulate the markets for various crypto assets being offered and sold as securities to retail investors. As alleged, the schemes were intended to induce investor victims to purchase the crypto assets by creating the false appearance of an active trading market for them.

According to the SEC’s complaints, crypto asset promoters Russell Armand, Maxwell Hernandez, Manpreet Singh Kohli, Nam Tran, and Vy Pham (Promoters) hired so-called market makers ZM Quant and Gotbit to provide market-manipulation-as-a-service, which included generating artificial trading volume or manipulating the price of crypto assets that the Promoters offered and sold as securities to retail investors in unregistered transactions. The SEC also alleged that ZM Quant and a third so-called market maker, CLS Global, undertook similar schemes to manipulate the market of a crypto asset offered and sold as a security that was created at the direction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of its parallel investigation into potential market manipulation in the crypto asset industry.

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-166

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🦅🚨👮‍♀️ Eighteen Individuals and Entities Charged in International Operation Targeting Widespread Fraud and Manipulation in the Cryptocurrency Markets

First-ever criminal charges against financial services firms for market manipulation and “wash trading” in the cryptocurrency industry

Eighteen individuals and entities have been charged for widespread fraud and manipulation in the cryptocurrency markets. Charges were unsealed in Boston against the leaders of four cryptocurrency companies, four cryptocurrency financial services firms (known as “market makers”) and employees at those firms.

Four defendants have pleaded guilty, another defendant has agreed to plead guilty, and authorities apprehended three other defendants in Texas, the United Kingdom and Portugal this week. More than $25 million in cryptocurrency has been seized and multiple trading bots responsible for millions of dollars’ worth of wash trades for approximately 60 different cryptocurrencies have been deactivated.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/eighteen-individuals-and-entities-charged-international-operation-targeting-widespread

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💻 Fidelity Data Breach Exposes Data of Over 77,000 Customers

An attacker snuck in by creating two new user accounts. Fidelity assures customers their investments aren’t affected.

In August, a threat actor compromised the data of 77,099 Fidelity Investments customers in Maine, the financial firm said in a breach notification letter to thousands of customers on Oct. 9.

The attacker didn’t access funds in Fidelity investment accounts. However, the hacker obtained personal information — including Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses — and created two new customer accounts. In response, Fidelity shut down the attacker’s access and offered affected customers a credit monitoring and identity restoration service.

“We take this incident and the security of your information very seriously,” the Fidelity Investments Private Office wrote in a sample notice drafted for Maine residents. “As noted above, upon detecting this activity, we promptly took steps to terminate the activity and address this incident.”

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fidelity-data-breach-oct/

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🇸🇻🪖📹 — In a militaristic tone, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, pays tribute to his military forces by posting a video showing his recent speech honoring the victims of the helicopter crash in the country. Recently, Bukele demonstrated that the greatest salvation and defense of the population against crime lies in courage and military values, in addition to exalting God as the ultimate will for the defense of the common good.

Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) on 𝕏 🖇