At GEF’s Eighth Assembly, Uzbekistan Signals New Role as Donor
H.E. Saida Mirziyoyeva, Chief Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan, attended the Eighth GEF Assembly, which began on Thursday. Mirziyoyeva delivered a message from the president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, which announced Uzbekistan’s decision to become a donor country. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
By Stella PaulSAMARKAND, Jun 4 2026 – In a significant policy shift symbolising rising environmental...
BitMEX Integrates with Banxa to Expand On and Off-Ramp Offerings
VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BitMEX, a leading crypto derivatives exchange, announced today a strategic integration with Banxa, a global provider of on-and-off ramp solutions. The partnership expands BitMEX’s fiat-to-crypto offerings to users in over 180 countries to seamlessly convert their fiat to crypto, and vice versa.
As digital asset adoption grows, the...
Bitget Rolls Out Stocks 2.0, Linking Tokenized Equities to Real U.S. Market Liquidity
VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world's leading Universal Exchange (UEX), has announced the launch of Bitget Stocks 2.0, an upgraded tokenized stock spot product designed to improve liquidity, asset transparency, and capital efficiency for tokenized equity trading.
The product is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA issuance platform, powered by Bitget's...
Iran War Exposes Limits of US Power Projection
Picture alliance/abaca. Even the world’s strongest fleet is reaching its limits. Source: International Politics and Society, Brussels
The US failure in Iran exposes the limits of power. But it also shows a deeper loss of moral and leadership capital that may be harder to recover
By Dan SmithSTOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jun 4 2026 – The outcome of the current Iran war is still in doubt, but one...
Azerbaijan’s Bank ABB launches AI Conversational Banking assistants AI-nur and AI-khan
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Bank ABB, one of the leading financial institutions in the South Caucasus, has officially launched its artificial intelligence assistants AI-nur and AI-khan, making them available to all customers following a successful Beta testing phase. The new conversational AI technology represents a major step forward in the bank’s digital transformation and introduces one of the...
PERU: ‘For 20 Years, Voters Have Had to Choose the Lesser of Two Evils’
By CIVICUSJun 4 2026 –
CIVICUS discusses the outlook ahead of Peru’s runoff presidential election with David Hidalgo, journalist and executive director of OjoPúblico, a Peruvian digital investigative journalism outlet.
David Hidalgo
In the first round of voting on 12 April, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori and fourth-time presidential candidate, secured...
Taklimakan Rally 2026: GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions
URUMQI, China, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eight stages completed. More than half the rally behind them. And in every T2 category it entered — T2.E new-energy production, T2.1 fuel production, T2.3 club production — GWM still holds the overall lead. Zero retirements. Zero mechanical failures. The championship is no longer a question of if, but when.
The race continues, but...
From War Zones to Global Environment Talks, Communities Seek Faster Green Finance
For three decades, Iffat Rachid Edriss walked Lebanon’s coastline with a clear purpose: protecting the sea she loves. She organised cleanups, conducted research, and helped rescue marine species, including turtles, seals, and dolphins. Through wars, economic crises, and environmental challenges, her work continued largely through community effort. “We worked very hard and kept our land […]
HOFA Gallery Inaugura Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, de Maja Petrić, na SXSW Londres 2026
LONDRES, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A HOFA Gallery tem o prazer de apresentar Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, uma nova exposição de Maja Petrić na SXSW London 2026. Em um momento ditado pela incessante velocidade, automação e produção digital, a exposição propõe algo diferente para a tecnologia: uma forma de...
La galerie HOFA présente Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime de Maja Petrić, une exposition inaugurée dans le cadre du festival SXSW Londres 2026
LONDRES, 03 juin 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — La galerie HOFA a le plaisir de présenter Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, une nouvelle exposition de Maja Petrić inaugurée dans le cadre du festival SXSW Londres 2026. À une époque de plus en plus marquée par la vitesse, l’automatisation et la production numérique effrénée,...
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