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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Full-stack Web3 solutions provider Lydian Labs, known for their flagship event Malaysia Blockchain Week 2025 (MYBW), has been officially acquired by BlockOffice. BlockOffice provides fractional CFO, company formation, accounting & taxes, fundraising and backoffice services for Web3 & tech companies. Additionally, BlockOffice is also funded by […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired the country’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Just days before the arrival of President Donald Trump to the U.K. on his second state visit […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged Thursday with inflation back under control and the economy weathering Trump’s tariff onslaught better than expected. The bank’s rate-setting council left its benchmark deposit rate unchanged at 2% at a meeting at its skyscraper headquarters in […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Wind and solar power generated more than a third of Brazil’s electricity in August, the first month on record the two renewable sources have crossed that threshold, according to government data made public on Thursday and analyzed by energy think tank Ember. The clean energy sources accounted for 34% of the […]

By ISABEL DEBRE Updated [hour]: [minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s far-right national security minister lashed out at supermodel Bella Hadid on Friday for criticizing his recent fiery televised remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.In an interview earlier this week with Israel’s Channel 12 following two deadly… […]

FILE – Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Pope Francis in a speech to Catholic lawmakers has warned against social media reducing human relationships to “mere algorithms” and urged lawmakers to be vigilant against “partisan” propaganda and divisiveness on social media.… […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them. A new poll from The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that about 7 in 10 Americans report feeling anxious or frustrated about the 2024 […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in Spanish more […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen broke Wednesday with her pro-Israel stance and announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over its military campaign in Gaza . The 27-nation EU is split over war in the Gaza Strip […]