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Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Wednesday 6 March 2024 16:19:58
Bitcoin Rebounds As $150k Target For 2024 Comes In View
Buying demand and a reset in funding rates for perpetuals has buoyed bitcoin (BTC) prices early Wednesday, fueling a broader-market recovery.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency tumbled over 7% on Tuesday after briefly touching all-time highs, causing a market-wide sell-off and more than $1 billion in liquidations amid the volatility. It dropped to as low as $60,800 but neared $67,000 in Asian morning hours – indicating resilience.
Some observers said the selling pressure was likely driven by profit-taking at historical highs and miners offloading some of their bitcoin holdings. Data shows that inflows in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) remained strong, with BlackRock amassing over $760 million on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, some market analysts said lofty price targets for bitcoin remained in view as April’s anticipated halving event, which reduces mining rewards in half, approaches.
“As demand from bitcoin ETFs, with $500 million in daily average inflows, continues to outstrip new production, we may see bitcoin’s ongoing surge continue,” Alex Adelman, CEO of bitcoin rewards application Lolli, shared in an email.
“Following the Halving, increased scarcity and strong demand from retail and institutional investors will likely push bitcoin’s price even higher. Based on historical trends following the Halving, bitcoin’s price could top $150,000 in the next year.”
Some developers say Bitcoin fundamentals are stronger this cycle compared to the previous ones, pointing to the introduction of Ordinals technology and their adoption.
"New innovations such as Ordinals, digital collectibles (NFTs) that are inscribed in the Bitcoin blockchain have driven $3.6 billion in BTC payments over the last 6 months alone," shared Stijn Paumen, founder of crypto payments firm Helio, in a message to CoinDesk. "If this trajectory continues we'll see global adoption of crypto as a mainstream method of a payment in the coming 4-year BTC cycle."
Major tokens, such as Solana’s SOL, Cardano’s ADA, ether (ETH) and meme coins, started to reverse Tuesday’s losses, rising as much as 5% in the past hour on bitcoin’s strength.
Dog-themed tokens dogecoin (DOGE) and shiba inu (SHIB) saw sell-offs of more than 15% on Tuesday but did not rebound alongside the other major tokens.