🤱South Korea has registered a total of 19,362 childbirths in February 2024, the lowest figure for any February since records began in 1981, Yonhap reports, citing Statistics Korea data.
🔗Meanwhile, the number of deaths has risen 9.6% year-on-year to 29,977 during the same period, resulting in a decline in population by 10,614, the sharpest fall for any February on record, data shows.
🚔Seven young people have been arrested in Australia's Sydney and Goulburn in extensive counterterrorism raids following last week's stabbing in an Assyrian Orthodox church, the Australian Federal Police says.
📱The Chinese government has the ability to “technically compromise” millions of electronic devices and collect data using the social media application TikTok, FBI Director Christopher Wray says in an interview with NBC News.
US national security officials are concerned about Chinese intelligence services collecting data and manipulating the platform’s algorithm to push pro-China narratives, he says.
Life is not a road map, society and cultures around the world have repeatedly told us what they expect of us from birth:
Schooling, work, marriage, parenthood, family settlement and retirement.
But life is not linear; it doesn't always go as planned.
The circumstances and realities of life can make it difficult for many people to meet some of these expectations. Plus people want different things.
This is why it's unethical to pressure or shame anyone for struggling or for making choices that are out of norm. Pressure creates comparison and it leads people to feel left behind in life.
Don't let anyone sell you the map to their expectations. Write your own story, create your own map.
⚡️Pyongyang on Wednesday sent an economic delegation, headed by North Korean External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho, to Iran, Yonhap reports, citing the North's state-run news agency KCNA.
🦠A record 1,679 imported dengue cases have been detected in European France since January 1, versus just 131 cases registered during the same period of 2023, the Sud Ouest newspaper reports, citing the French General Directorate for Health.
😷The authorities are calling for tighter controls and preventive measures ahead of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, the report adds.
El Salvador: Hackers leak code of state Bitcoin wallet
Summary:
- A leak of El Salvador's state bitcoin wallet has exposed a list of 52 bitcoin addresses containing 2,096.85 BTC (worth around $40 million).
- The leak is believed to have originated from a hack of the state-owned Chivo wallet, used to store and manage the country's bitcoin reserves.
- The incident raises concerns about the security and transparency of El Salvador's bitcoin operations.
- El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021 and has invested heavily in the cryptocurrency.
- President Nayib Bukele has been a vocal supporter of bitcoin, but the leak has sparked criticism of the government's handling of the country's bitcoin funds.
- The government is investigating the incident, but has not yet commented publicly.
- The leak highlights the risks and challenges of adopting a decentralized and volatile asset like bitcoin as legal tender.
If the Tether Treasury keeps on minting USDT like this, what makes them different from the government that prints fiat money? What will happen in the future if it stays like this?
🔎Romania has registered 13,113 cases of measles and 14 deaths from January 1, 2023 to April 21, 2024, and another 767 cases and 1 death over the past week, the National Institute of Public Health says.
🖼️Posters depicting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a "hostess" of Hungarian opposition representatives have appeared in Budapest ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
🤵♂️The Hungarian opposition figures dressed as waiters in the pictures are serving "war, migration and gender identity propaganda" on trays.
📌Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq has filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Justice in London against the UK Department for Business and Trade, accusing it of the ongoing issuance of permits for arms exports to Israel, Sky News reports.
The hearing is scheduled to take place in early October, the report adds.