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The Solana price has risen to $23.60 today, representing a 1% gain in the past 24 hours. This movement means it also has increased by 3.6% in the past fortnight and by an impressive 64% in the last 30 days, with the compensating for many of the losses it suffered in the wake of the FTX bankruptcy.Today’s rise also comes on the back of Solana’s 24-hour trading volume passing $700 million, an elevated level that could indicate further movements. And with SOL continuing to benefit from the launch of Solana-based meme token BONK, as well as ongoing development, the next…

The Syrian government has requested European humanitarian assistance to help its search and rescue efforts two days after a devastating earthquake, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday.”Earlier today, this morning, we have also received a request from the government of Syria to the EU for assistance through the Civil Protection Mechanism. We shared this request with EU member states and we are encouraging them to contribute the in-kind assistance as requested,” Commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarčič told reporters.The request from the Syrian government “contains a long list of items”, he added such as assistance in their search and rescue efforts, medical…

Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has slammed the Andrews Government’s decision to “indoctrinate” Victorian classrooms with a Voice to Parliament agenda.Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has slammed the Andrews Government’s decision to “indoctrinate” Victorian classrooms with a Voice to Parliament agenda.The Victorian education department have introduced a policy which promotes the Indigenous Voice to Parliament as part of the “journey to Treaty” in classrooms across the state.The Victorian Government is currently in the process of negotiating a Treaty framework with Indigenous Victorians.  Mr Mundine told Sky News Australia he was unsurprised the “People’s Democratic Republic of Victoria” was instituting a pro-Voice syllabus.“This is…

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday (Feb 8) warned that the country cannot continue with a high budget deficit.  In a press conference after a Cabinet meeting, Mr Anwar said that the government is seeking to reduce its debts without affecting its development programmes. “The country can no longer survive with a high (budget) deficit and (we) seek to reduce (the debts) and (with) reductions that do not burden our development programmes.  “I have received some additional feedback from the ministers (on this matter),” said Mr Anwar.  Last month, during his address at the 2023 Budget Dialogue, Mr…

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has killed more than 11,000 people, making it the deadliest seismic event in more than a decade.Turkey’s disaster management agency said the country’s death toll passed 8,500. The Syrian Health Ministry said the death toll in government-held areas has climbed past 1,200, while at least 1,400 people have died in the rebel-held northwest, according to volunteer first responders known as the White Helmets.More than 30,000 people have been injured from the Monday morning 7.8 magnitude earthquake, and the death toll is expected to continue to rise as rescue workers search for survivors underneath the…

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has been accused of sitting on her hands for six weeks after learning critical offshore processing laws had expired.Ms O’Neil revealed in Question Time this week she only learned legislation designating Nauru as a regional processing centre had lapsed on December 15.A document obtained by Sky News Australia shows Ms O’Neil did not fulfil an obligation to inform the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees of its intention to relist Nauru until six weeks later on January 27.Ms O’Neil told Parliament on Wednesday she first learned the legislation had lapsed “late in the evening” of December…

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Missouri man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children was executed Tuesday despite his claims that he was in another state when the killings occurred.Raheem Taylor, 58, was the third Missouri inmate put to death since November at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It was the nation’s fifth execution this year, following a previous execution in Missouri, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma. All were by lethal injection.Taylor kicked his feet as the 5 grams of pentobarbital were administered, then took five or six deep breaths before all movement…

Pahang Fire and Rescue Department director Wan Mohammad Zaidi Wan Isa said that the accident occurred at 1.15pm when the van, with 14 passengers, was on its way down from Genting Highlands. All the victims involved were taken to Bentong Hospital and Selayang Hospital, he told Bernama. He added that the victims were a group of tourists from Kulim, Kedah. Former Malaysian transport minister Wee Ka Siong offered his condolences over the accident in a post on his Facebook page. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims in the Genting accident that involved a tourist van,” he…

Earlier this week, Indonesian authorities said they will use “weather modification technology” to produce artificial rain over dry peatland as a preventative measure against potential forest fires.  Local media had previously reported that the weather modification technology, known formerly as artificial rain technology, creates rain that helps to put out fires.  It is carried out by seeding cumulonimbus clouds with sodium chloride to cause immediate condensation and rain, state news agency Antara reported. And last month, Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar warned that stern action will be taken against firms that are found to have caused forest fires in the…

SEOUL: South Korean lawmakers voted on Wednesday (Feb 8) to impeach the interior minister over his responses to a deadly Halloween crush, setting the stage for him to become the country’s first cabinet member ousted by the legislature. The impeachment motion was passed by a widely expected 179-109 margin in a secret ballot in the 300-member single chamber, where the main opposition Democratic Party holds a 169-seat majority. The support of at least 150 members of the assembly was required to pass it. The parliament’s justice committee will review the motion before sending it to the Constitutional Court, which would…