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View More NewsThe U.S. Treasury Department has, for the first time, sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges for operating in Iran’s financial sector.The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against Zedcex and Zedxion both registered in the United Kingdom, as part of a broader crackdown on Iranian authorities after their brutal suppression of an internal uprising that killed thousands of their own citizens.According to the Treasury’s statement, the exchanges facilitated transactions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the U.S. and its allies in the European Union designate as a terrorist organization. Since their registration in 2022, just one of these processed…
Four years ago, I explained to Quillette readers why I am “Against Land Acknowledgements.” As most will know, these are sombre declarations testifying to the historical existence of Indigenous tribes that were once situated in this or that geographical region (and, in some cases, that may still have an ongoing demographic presence). Such statements have become fashionable in North America and Australasia, particularly among progressive-minded academics and local politicians. At the University of Washington (UW), where I teach computer programming, we have a standardised version that runs as follows: “The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this…
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Xi Jinping purges a million officials a year. China’s president finds corruption wherever he looks for it, like a Grand Inquisitor rooting out heresy. Lately, his fury has turned to members of the military command, and on 24 January, the great purge finally reached its zenith—a moment described by Dennis Wilder, former China analyst at the CIA, as “the most stunning development in Chinese politics since the early days of Xi’s rise to power.”As vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, which heads the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party (not of China, which has no army), Zhang Youxia was…
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From today’s decision in Keeton v. State, written by Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Cindy Grace Thyer, joined by Judges Brandon Harrison and Casey…
Berlin, January 28, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) January 27 ruling that Azerbaijan violated the rights of journalist Khadija…
The bull market in gold ratcheted into a higher gear on Wednesday, with the yellow metal soaring 6% to above $5,400 per ounce for…
Officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump are reportedly set to sit down with executives from the banking and cryptocurrency industries on…