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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the first update to its register of crypto companies under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) after the transitional period ended Wednesday.Friday’s update to the register added 37 licensed crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), including global banking group Standard Chartered, which secured MiCA authorization from Luxembourg regulators on June 25.Among the new CASPs are digital asset prime brokerage FalconX, Sygnum Europe and Ronin EM, while the register of electronic money tokens (EMTs) has added Crédit Agricole’s CACEIS.ESMA’s interim MiCA register now lists 280 CASPs, up from 243 in the previous…
Josh Hart is seemingly putting a pin in speculation that the New York Knicks will be at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. The starting guard, 31, hosed down rumors that the Knicks’ starting five players were invited to the “Wi$h Li$t” singer’s big day after she supported the team at the NBA finals last month. Fellow Knicks player Jeremy Sochan quoted a report about the invite via X on Thursday, July 2, jokingly pleading with Hart to take him along to the nuptials. “What about me? 😞 @joshhart can I be your plus 1?” Sochan, 23, quipped. Related: Jalen…
The Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has urged Governor Douye Diri to prioritise tackling rising hunger and poverty in the second half of 2026, saying worsening economic hardship has left many residents struggling to meet basic needs. The opposition party, in a statement on Friday by its Publicity Secretary, Ikaebimo Mark, said the cost of living had continued to rise while the purchasing power of many Bayelsans had declined despite increased revenue accruing to the state through higher derivation receipts and federal allocations. According to the PDP, hunger cuts across political, religious and ethnic divides and should…
Bitcoin (BTC) has added another bear-market bottom signal this month as analysis draws comparisons to November 2022.Key points:Bitcoin adds to its list of bear-market bottom signals with a key supply ratio “buy” trigger.A bear-market floor could still be some time off, analysis says, with supply held at a loss still relatively low.Demand is the missing piece of the puzzle to shore up a bullish rebound.Bitcoin profit metric echoes 2022 bear-market bottom zoneIn a blog post on Friday, crypto analyst Axel Adler Jr., a contributor to onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, confirmed the return of a key Bitcoin buy signal.Advanced Net UTXO…
Love Island USA‘s narrator Iain Stirling found a way to joke about the show losing multiple Islanders after they had to be removed from the villa. The Thursday, July 2, episode showed Melanie Moreno planning to sleep in Soul Ties — until she saw the villa’s famous owl. Melanie moved to another place for the night while the owl settled in. The next morning, Iain addressed the owl’s absence. “For personal reasons, the owl has left the village,” he quipped. The Love Island franchise began in the U.K. in 2002 before expanding worldwide with various spinoffs, including Love Island USA…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of N150 million linked to Nigerian lawmaker Nicholas Mutu to the federal government. Mr Mutu, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in mid-2025, is a six-term member of the House of Representatives representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday by its Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale. According to the commission, Judge Joyce Abdulmalik “made the order on Thursday after granting its application…
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, has reaffirmed his commitment to the ruling party, declaring that he is not a nomadic politician or a vulture “flying from one tree to another” in pursuit of personal ambition or political convenience. The former Kano State governor made the clarification while dismissing as false, mischievous and politically motivated posters circulating on social media alleging that he had defected to the New Democratic Congress. In a statement issued on Friday by his former Commissioner for Information and Chief of Staff, Muhammad Garba, Ganduje described the posters as a calculated campaign…
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) confirmed the seizure of another 500 Bitcoin, currently worth about 27 million euros ($30.9 million), in collaboration with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. That brings the total Bitcoin seized by CAB in 2026 to 1,500 BTC, worth about $92.4 million, the law enforcement agency said in a social media post on Thursday. CAB said Europol had provided operational coordination, technical expertise and decryption support during the investigation.The agency did not disclose the identity of the wallet owner or details of the underlying investigation, adding that it had no further comment.The latest seizure comes months after CAB said…
Let the festivities begin! Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s nearest and dearest have started arriving at their reported wedding rehearsal dinner. Swift and Kelce, both 36, are rumored to tie the knot at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday, July 3, in front of around 1,000 of their loved ones but a smaller group is reportedly gathering on Thursday, July 2, for a rehearsal dinner, per multiple media outlets. Per Page Six and ABC News, around 100 individuals will be present for Thursday’s dinner, with social media offering a sneak peek at who made the guest list.…
PREMIUM TIMES has obtained the court documents listing the charges that the Nigerian government filed against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the disowned director-general of a non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). This newspaper has also obtained details of a police investigative report that predated the lawsuit, as well as a list of witnesses and exhibits that the Nigerian government tendered before the court. The presidency had said on Wednesday that Mr Adeyemi is facing an eight-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The announcement came two weeks after the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, issued…
