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View More NewsMoneyGram, which serves roughly 60 million active customers, views blockchain rails as a way to make cross-border transfers faster, cheaper and easier to track, without requiring customers to think about the technology powering them. Ramps fits into the vision as it connects digital assets into MoneyGram’s extensive brick-and-mortar network to help everyday customers turn tokens into local cash.“The future of payments is built on access,” MoneyGram CEO Anthony Soohoo said in a statement. “Bringing MoneyGram Ramps to Solana is another step toward building a truly open, global payments network.”MoneyGram has spent several years building connections between its traditional payments network…
from the myths-and-fables dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee more than 100 times on July 29, 2026. The Republican-led hearing – convened to scrutinize Fauci’s management of the pandemic and the origins of COVID-19 – was the latest chapter in a political story that began in 2020, when uncertainty, fear and frustration with the government became entangled with conspiracy theories. In the past six years, some of these theories have emerged from the margins of the internet and made their way into Republican politics, the MAGA movement, anti-vaccine communities and even…
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In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian Embassy in London. There, Ambassador Manar Dabbas discussed the unfolding regional catastrophe with the composure of someone reviewing the previous night’s football scores. Some 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been murdered; around 250 had been taken hostage into Gaza; and pro-terror rhetoric was spreading across the world. But at this juncture, Dabbas emphasised the importance of de-escalation and the need for Israeli restraint. With respect to Jordan’s position, he remarked: “We sometimes joke among ourselves that we are…
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