Telegram Tops 700 Million Users

Financial News

Instant messaging app Telegram has surpassed 700 Million monthly active users and is celebrating the launch of a premium subscription tier.

Telegram Premium, teased earlier this month by CEO Pavel Durov, invites users to unlock exclusive features like faster downloads, additional stickers, and reactions, improved chat management, etc., while existing functions remain free to everyone.

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WHO’s Tedros Privately Admits Lab Leak “Most Likely Explanation” for Covid

World News

While publicly the World Health Organisation maintains that “all hypotheses remain on the table” about the origins of Covid, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of WHO had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread during late 2019.

A team of 27 experts was set up by the WHO last year to produce a new global framework for studies into emerging pathogens with the potential of sparking epidemics or pandemics.

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Bank of Japan spends a Record $81 Billion to Avert Collapse but $10 Trillion JGB Market is Broken 

Economic News

Tokyo’s bond market began the week on a much calmer footing as traders mulled unprecedented intervention by the Bank of Japan, which dragged benchmark yields back below their closely watched ceiling.

Ten-year yields edged higher to 0.23% Monday in the aftermath of the BOJ’s 10.9 trillion yen ($81 billion) of government bond purchases last week, the most on record, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The central bank ramped up bond buying as benchmark yields breached its 0.25% tolerated limit amid a global debt selloff.

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Texas Republicans push for Referendum to Vote on State Seceding from the U.S. in 2023

Political News

The Texas Republican Party officially rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election over the weekend, passing a resolution in its platform that falsely blames election fraud in five battleground states for President Joe Biden's victory over former President Donald Trump. The resolution refers to Mr. Biden as "acting" president.

Texas Republicans also passed a number of other far-right resolutions in the platform, demonstrating the most conservative activists' strength in the state party. The platform calls for the complete abolition of abortion, prohibiting "the teaching of sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity in any public school in any grade whatsoever," and refers to homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle choice." The platform also calls for Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, to be overturned.

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