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By The Associated Press KYIV — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has become the latest European leader to visit Ukraine. Marin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday in Kyiv. Finnish public broadcaster YLE says she also visited the towns of Bucha and Irpin where Russian soldiers are alleged to have killed civilians. Zelenskyy thanked Marin for Finland’s weapons deliveries and its support for sanctions against Russia. Jolted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland recently broke with its policy of non-alignment and applied for membership in NATO, together with neighboring Sweden. ___ KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: — As Ukraine war grinds on, world pushes for way to get grain out — Scars of war seem to be everywhere in Ukraine after 3 months — War Crimes Watch: Hard path to justice in Bucha atrocities — US aims to leverage Russia-Ukraine bloc against China — Russia takes steps to bolster army, offer some Ukrainians … [Read more...] about Live updates | Finland’s prime minister visits Ukraine

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Recent monetary policy tightenings have triggered steep declines in many financial markets, including crypto assets which have lost almost $1 trillion in market capitalization in just one week. Extreme market volatility triggered the disintegration of the Terra ecosystem . TerraUSD ( UST ), a dollar- pegged stablecoin, and its sister token LUNA plummeted and delisted, saddling investors with billions in losses and accelerating the wreckage of other cryptocurrencies. This debacle debunked tall claims of an innovative crypto-financial ecosystem supposedly immune to traditional finance (TradeFi) bank runs . Stablecoins, a breed of cryptocurrencies touted for their purported stability, became vulnerable during the week ending May 13th, 2022, showing a glimpse of how things can go horribly wrong. The algorithmic stablecoin UST lost its dollar peg, collapsed, and wiped out nearly $50 billion in market value. The Terra … [Read more...] about Innovative Crypto Stablecoins- Still At Infancy And Experiencing Growing Pains

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The move to reopen the U.S. embassy in Ukraine has brought one American military officer back into the country as part of the diplomatic team. But the Pentagon said Thursday that no other troops are going into Ukraine at this point. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the defense attache, a colonel, has gone back to Kyiv with other embassy staff. The defense attache, while a military officer, reports to the chief of mission and is there for diplomatic work, not security. There have been ongoing questions about whether the U.S. will send a Marine security detachment back to the embassy. Kirby said that so far, the State Department is handling embassy protection with diplomatic security personnel and has not asked for Marines. “Nothing has changed about the president’s direction that US troops will not be fighting in this war in Ukraine,” Kirby told reporters at the Pentagon. He said active discussions about security are ongoing with … [Read more...] about Live updates | US military officer back at embassy in Kyiv

KUALA LUMPUR: First, Larissa Lumandan left her mobile phone in the freezer. Next, she could not remember what items she needed to bring when moving to Kuala Lumpur from Sabah or even how to arrange them in her luggage. "It took me three days to pack a simple suitcase. It was, like, as though I didn’t know how to pack things. It’s never happened to me before, never,” the 32-year-old writer told Bernama. It did not stop there. The Kota Kinabalu native said after moving to Kuala Lumpur last month, she would regularly do silly things like trying to find clothes she had chosen to wear while holding the said clothes, and rewashing dishes over and over again because she kept forgetting she had washed them. It was only when she ended up in Avenue K, while trying to get to the Suria KLCC shopping mall via the connecting tunnel - a place she used to go to often as a student in Kuala Lumpur - that she realised something was wrong. She described her mind as being "very blur”. In medical … [Read more...] about Experts: Under-reporting of long Covid endangers patients’ recovery, healthcare system