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Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn’t move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the contracts away, and Bitcoin would finally be free to go somewhere.The contracts have now cleared on two consecutive Fridays, and Bitcoin is sitting roughly where it started. It traded just under $64,000 on Saturday, closing out a week in which it failed to hold $66,000 and then slid back…

Home Europe Unprecedented wildfires swept across France and Spain, youth-led protests in India forced the country’s education minister to resign and Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom’s new prime minister. FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the week’s most striking images.  Issued on: 26/07/2026 – 16:49 2 min Reading time Beachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in southwestern France on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire. © Maximilien Lamy, AFP Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham holds a pint of beer during a visit to…

Pour les automobilistes, ils proposaient de neutraliser l’effet sur le prix à la pompe en diminuant d’autant les taxes (ce qui impliquait de réviser la taxe régulièrement). Pour les bâtiments, seuls les ménages modestes auraient été compensés via une augmentation du chèque énergie. Une compensation insuffisante aux yeux de Valérie Létard, ministre du Logement à l’époque. “A partir de quand on est modeste ou on ne l’est plus ? On parle de millions de personnes affectées”, interroge-t-elle, sollicitée par POLITICO. Si elle ne se souvient pas avoir été sollicitée sur ce courrier, Valérie Létard se rappelle avoir alerté. “Bien sûr,…

Democrats in Maine have reset a Senate race seen as critical to their party’s chances of retaking the chamber after an improvised scramble to swap out a damaged candidate, Graham Platner, for a new one, Troy Jackson, after a wild 17 days.Now comes the tricky part.Mr. Jackson, a former State Senate president, is trying to keep alive the grass-roots energy that Mr. Platner built over the past year while distancing himself from the former nominee’s personal history. With help from her allies, Senator Susan Collins, the five-term Republican he is trying to defeat, is seeking to tie the two Democrats…

Britain’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is to indicate he will put the climate crisis and overseas development at the heart of UK international relations by taking up the country’s seat on the board at the World Bank.The position, which is usually delegated to a junior minister, means Miliband will play an active role in shaping the changes to the World Bank that developing countries have called for, and ensuring the climate remains a core focus for overseas aid.Miliband, who was energy and net zero secretary under Keir Starmer, will say: “International development is not an add-on to British foreign policy…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla kicked off earnings season — at least for this sector — and the shareholder letter, along with Elon Musk’s remarks during the conference call, provided some pretty incredible disclosures I imagine have some investors concerned, or at least puzzled.  Tesla has backed off previous promises to reach “volume production” of the Cybercab, Tesla Semi, and Megapack 3 in 2026.…

KULR Technology Group, a US-listed battery technology company, and The Smarter Web Company, a UK-listed web services group with a Bitcoin treasury strategy, have sold approximately 511 BTC and used the proceeds to retire approximately $31.7 million of obligations in disclosures published one day apart.The total comprises $20 million of KULR principal and Smarter Web’s exact $11,698,540 repayment. Both companies acted voluntarily and retained substantial Bitcoin reserves; neither disclosure described a lender-forced liquidation. The shared consequence is that financing can turn assets presented as long-term holdings into repayment inventory without ending a treasury strategy.KULR’s July 24 filing said it sold…