by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
A former crypto entrepreneur who was behind two digital currencies that collapsed and lost an estimated $40bn ($29.9bn) has been sentenced by a New York judge to 15 years in prison for an “epic” fraud.Do Kwon, a South Korean national, was co-founder of...
by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
Mengchen Zhang, Jack Lau and Ankur ShahBBC Global China Unit and Eye InvestigationsBBCWarning: This report contains details of physical and sexual abuse and discussion of suicide.Baobao’s heart still races when she smells soil after morning rain.It takes her...
by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment correspondent, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesThe Tapanuli orangutan was only discovered by scientists to be a separate species in 2017 – distinct from the Sumatran and Bornean apesAn unusual silence in the forests of north Sumatra in...
by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
On this week’s episode of Sources & Methods, NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks to correspondents Greg Myre and Eleanor Beardsley about the future of the U.S. alliance with Europe under President Trump. Source link
by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
A severe winter storm makes landfall in Gaza, drenching families and makeshift tents as aid groups say Israel’s impeding shelter supplies. Source link
by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | World News
ReutersThe US has proposed Ukraine withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region and create a “special economic zone” in the areas it currently controls, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.Zelensky said territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia...
