Synchronoss Showcases Expanded Personal Cloud Platform, Capsyl Momentum, and Previews New Offering at CES 2026
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (“Synchronoss”) (NASDAQ: SNCR), a global leader and innovator in personal cloud solutions, today announced expanded capabilities across its white–label Synchronoss Personal Cloud platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. The company is also highlighting continued momentum for Capsyl, its turnkey personal...
Mark Your Calendar: Hong Kong to Host Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026 after Historic Double Win
HONG KONG, Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — It’s been a banner year for Hong Kong’s restaurant, bar and hospitality scene. Fresh off its historic achievement, in which venues in Hong Kong became the first to receive both The World’s Best Bar and The World’s Best Hotel titles the same year, Hong Kong will host the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026 award ceremony...
BitMEX Launches Equity Perps for 24/7 Stock Trading
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BitMEX, one of the safest exchanges, today announced the launch of Equity Perps, a new derivatives product that allows traders to gain exposure to major U.S. stocks and equity indices using cryptocurrency as collateral. The launch expands BitMEX’s product suite beyond crypto–native markets, enabling 24/7 trading on traditional...
Bombing and Ballots, Myanmar’s Contentious Election
A man walks past a campaign poster for the military’s proxy party USDP ahead of strictly controlled elections in Myanmar. Credit: Guy Dinmore/IPS
By Guy DinmoreYANGON, Myanmar and BANGKOK , Jan 6 2026 – With thousands of civilians killed in years of civil war and over 22,000 political prisoners still behind bars, no one was surprised that early results from Myanmar’s first but tightly controlled...
Lost Opportunities to Halt Rising Military Spending
The UN report, released last month, calls for a fundamental recalibration of global security and development strategies, prioritizing diplomacy and international cooperation to reverse the current trend of escalating military spending. Credit: UNDP
By Alice SlaterNEW YORK, Jan 6 2026 – The United Nations issued a year end Fact Sheet: Rising global military expenditures, starkly illuminating...
Trump De-dollarisation Accelerant
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 6 2026 – While US President Donald Trump has blamed the BRICS and foreign investors for de-dollarisation, his rhetoric, actions and policy measures are mainly responsible for the trend’s recent acceleration.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Threats and reactions
Although Trump is not the sole cause of de-dollarisation, which began much earlier, well before...
Skyrocketing Military Spending Undermines Development Aid to World’s Poor
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jan 5 2026 – The statistics are staggering: while military spending keeps skyrocketing, Official Development Assistance (ODA)– from the rich to some of the world’s poorer nations– has been declining drastically.
According to a Fact Sheet released by the UN last week, the $2.7 trillion allocated in just one year (2024) to global military spending...
When Democracy Freezes, Autocrats Rise
Pro-Democracy protesters gather in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese army in the capital, Khartoum. Credit: Masarib/Ahmed Bahhar via UN News
By Robert MisikVIENNA, Austria, Jan 5 2026 – Consider our political systems not merely as battlegrounds of passions, ideologies and economic interests, but as systematically functioning arrangements of interactions, akin to game theory. In recent...
Security Council’s Deep Concern Over United States’ Venezuela Action
Security Council Meets on Threats to International Peace and Security. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten
By Cecilia RussellUNITED NATIONS & JOHANNESBURG, Jan 5 2026 – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern about the immediate future of Venezuela.
In a statement read by Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, Guterres...
‘This Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill Can Still Be Blocked – but Only With Sustained International Pressure’
By CIVICUSJan 2 2026 –
CIVICUS discusses Kazakhstan’s anti-LGBTQI+ bill with Temirlan Baimash, activist and co-founder of QUEER KZ youth initiative, a Kazakhstani LGBTQI+ organisation.
Temirlan Baimash
On 12 November, Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament unanimously passed a bill banning ‘LGBTQI+ propaganda’, introducing fines and up to 10 days’ imprisonment for repeat offences....
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