Scam operations across the region drove up to $114 billion in losses in 2025, according to United Nations estimates.
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Policy report recommends interim licensing guidance, greater flexibility for stablecoin issuers and rules ahead of the Digital Asset Basic Act.
The US Treasury said HormuzSafe accepted Bitcoin and other digital assets to evade sanctions and generate revenue for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7. 1 earthquake hit Tuesday.
Bert le Clos stopped smoking after his son Chad, the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history, convinced him to quit.
Thousands of people are staying in evacuation centres, struggling to keep cool as temperatures soar.
Soldiers and emergency workers are searching a badly damaged shopping mall, paper mill and collapsed houses for survivors The death toll from the major earthquake that hit Japan on Tuesday rose to 28 as the search for trapped survivors inside a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses in ...