The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed media company covering European start-ups In the justifiable, if spicy, words of one veteran tech investor in Israel: “It’s a fricking miracle what we’ve built here.” Over the past three decades, the tiny country of 9mn people, located… Read Full Article Here FT
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is gearing up for a crunch address to the nation on Monday – with the Kremlin believed to be drawing plans for a fresh round of mobilisation almost a year after invading Ukraine. The UK’s MoD also suggested in its latest bulletin it was becoming “increasingly difficult” for Putin to conceal […]
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Saskatchewan’s Coroners Service says the two inquests into the stabbing rampage last year at James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Sask., are tentatively scheduled to start in early January 2024. The Sept. 4 stabbings left 11 people dead and 18 injured. The province’s Coroners Service announced in September that there […]
More than 900 evacuees from Peguis First Nation still can’t to return to their community nearly nine months after floodwaters ravaged the reserve. Nearly 300 homes are uninhabitable and many have been given no timeline for when they may be able to go back, Chief Glenn Hudson said. At least 85 homes have already been […]
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway said Thursday that the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top donors to Ukraine when his two-party center-left government presents another planned military and civilian aid package. Norway’s profits from oil will finance the additional aid, and there will be a temporary increase in the […]
As a desperate Tuvalu, sinking due to global warming, becomes the world’s first nation to replicate itself on the Metaverse, questions about sovereignty and citizenship arise. —– RECENTLY, the South-Pacific island nation of Tuvalu decided to shift its territorial and cultural identity onto Metaverse. Its Minister for Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Simon Kofe, speaking at the 2022 […]
By Sumit Gupta India’s Web3 industry is on a mission – making India a global hub for Web3, blockchain, and crypto innovation over the next five years. The industry has the potential to contribute over $1 trillion to support India in achieving its goal of becoming a$5 trillion economy. While today it might appear as […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week titled, “That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment,” which focused on the state of Live Nation Entertainment and the lack of competition in the primary and secondary ticketing markets. “I just want to dispel this notion that this is not a monopoly […]
A coal company and a British Columbia First Nation have struck a rare deal to give the community the power to veto a proposed mining project, which could set a precedent for how natural resources projects are developed in Canada. NWP Coal Canada and the Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi’it (YQT), also known as the Tobacco Plains Indian […]
GARDINER — Hundreds of bison congregated just inside the edge of Yellowstone National Park’s northern border on Thursday afternoon. Not far away, vehicles lined Old Yellowstone Trail road outside of the park, where hunters and their families pulled bison carcass parts on sleds. Driven in part by strong winter weather, bison have been crossing over […]