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Facebook recently announced its ambitions for Libra, the company’s new global cryptocurrency. Given Facebook’s community of over 2.4 billion … Read more via Forbes – https://ift.tt/2JG8Y27 Get more World News

Angry victims have looted and torched the home of a man who operated an alleged Bitcoin BTC Ponzi scheme in South Africa. Firefighters in Ladysmith, approximately 365 kilometres south of Johannesburg, were called to Sphelele “Sgumza” Mbatha’s house on Wednesday afternoon after several angry …...

A cargo ship that had 16.5 tons of cocaine worth more than $1 billion seized from it in Philadelphia in one of the largest drug busts in US history is owned by JP Morgan, it has emerged. The $90 million MSC Gayane is owned by a transportation strategy fund … Read more via News | Mail...

A British oil tanker operated by BP Plc exited the Persian Gulf and was sailing off the coast of Oman Thursday after Iranian naval vessels “impeded” it during the voyage. The British Heritage passed through the Strait of Hormuz, the oil... Read more via Bloomberg – https://ift.tt/2XGGTBV...

JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — and now he’s trying to raise campaign money based on that because he says the “liberal media” are attacking …...

Aliyah Terry, a woman in North Carolina who wrote a book about domestic violence has allegedly been stabbed to death by her boyfriend. Police have arrested Isaih Henderson III, the boyfriend of Ms Terry, who was found stabbed to death inside her home in the city of Charlotte on … Read more...

Ethiopia has sent emissaries to Kenya and Somalia seeking to have their maritime border dispute resolved without worsening fragile diplomatic ties in the Horn of Africa. Officials in Nairobi and Mogadishu said Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, the chairman of the … Read more via Daily Nation | Home...