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View More NewsIn brief XRP jumped as much as 14.21% in 24 hours to $1.40, making it the best-performing asset among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap today. The daily candle closed above both the 50-day and 200-day EMAs for the first time since XRP’s death cross locked in earlier this month. The move rides the same Bitcoin short squeeze and Treasury-driven liquidity wave that’s been ripping through crypto all week. Crypto is having one of its best weeks in months, and XRP just grabbed the wheel.Bitcoin punched through $72,000 this week on the back of a record short squeeze—traders who…
Dakar, August 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on Togolese authorities to drop the charges against French journalists Sebastian Perez Pezzani and Gaël Mocaër, and their Togolese fixer, Komi Mawufemo Vedomey, and to release Mocaër and Vedomey who have spent 26 days in detention since they were arrested July 27 while filming a documentary in northern Togo. On August 20, 2026, an investigative judge in Lomé, the Togolese capital, provisionally released Pezzani for medical reasons but ordered his passport to be confiscated pending the next appearance of the three journalists to be questioned on the case, their lawyer, Martial Akakpo, told CPJ. Mocaër and Vedomey are detained in…
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