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In brief Crypto firms can apply for UK authorization from September 30 to February 28, 2027, ahead of the regime taking effect on October 25, 2027. Overseas firms dealing, arranging or safeguarding for UK retail customers are caught, with no overseas persons exclusion available. Missing the February deadline costs firms the transitional cover that lets them keep operating while their application is assessed. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has told crypto firms how its incoming rulebook applies to them, publishing perimeter guidance on Wednesday, two weeks before applications for authorization open.The guidance covers issuing qualifying stablecoins, running trading platforms, dealing and…

Destructive immune cells tied to Alzheimer’s disease may get their marching orders from cells outside the brain rather than within it.In mice, suppressing a small population of immune cells located in lymph nodes protects against neurodegeneration, researchers report September 3 in Nature Neuroscience. The findings raise the possibility of treating Alzheimer’s disease while bypassing the brain’s siege defenses.For years, researchers have gone all in on efforts to remove toxic tangles of proteins like amyloid and tau from the brain as a way of halting Alzheimer’s, with limited success. But the immune system also plays an important role in neurodegeneration. What…

For the first time in the modern history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a Congolese nongovernmental organization will co-manage a protected area in the country. “It is an honor,” Dominique Bikaba, founder of the NGO Strong Roots, told Mongabay by phone. Strong Roots has been entrusted with the management of Itombwe Nature Reserve (RNI), located in South Kivu province in the northeast DRC. Under a public-private partnership Strong Roots will manage the reserve for the next 10 years. The Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN), the national authority responsible for natural parks, will retain oversight of the park.…

A new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier design that moves the accommodation block and bridge to the bow to make room for four wind-assisted sails has cleared a key technical milestone, with Lloyd’s Register, a maritime classification society, affirming technical readiness of the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) concept, marking a key step toward commercializing large-scale wind-assisted propulsion for LNG transport. Representatives from the project partners at the Design Appraisal presentation ceremony; Source: Lloyd’s Register Lloyd’s Register has granted design appraisal for HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ fore-accommodation LNG carrier design featuring the Wind Challenger wind-assisted…

In LaSalle County’s stately courthouse in central Illinois, a powerful law enforcement official fought a bitter legal feud with an unflappable young lawyer, charging her with felony perjury for statements she made in a court affidavit. Some two years later and 250 miles south in St. Clair County, a similar legal grudge match washed through the glass and concrete courthouse when a local news researcher was charged with harassing a public official for alleged statements he made outside a local diner. In both cases, the accusations were leveled by members of Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit — the elite squad of…

One of the curiosities of debates about cycling in the UK is that almost all of them centre on the place with the greatest concentration of not only bikes but also politicians and journalists: inner London. Inevitably this is just a small part of the story.Much of the current focus is on so-called share bikes operated by companies such as Lime and Forest – nippy electric-assist machines that can be picked up and left on pavements. On Saturday, a Guardian investigation revealed that councils in the capital have so far this year seized 3,393 dangerously parked or abandoned ebikes, a…

Claim: Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-real estate developer Donald Trump said 40 Wall Street, a building he owns, was “the tallest” in downtown Manhattan or New York City. Rating: Context Trump specifically called 40 Wall Street the tallest building on downtown Manhattan, not all of Manhattan or New York City. Whether Trump’s comments amounted to bragging, as some people online claimed, is open to interpretation. Around the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump, then a New York City real estate developer, said after the attacks that he now…

The central theme of the BRICS bloc of nations is to push back against the global economic dominance of Western countries. That core value was very much at the centre of this year’s 18th BRICS Summit, which took place last week in India.At the September 12 and 13 summit in New Delhi, leaders committed to expanding local currency trading systems and cross-border payment systems by investing in BRICS Pay, an initiative of the BRICS Business Council.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“We acknowledge the work done to study the cross-border interoperability of payment and messaging channels, and the discussions…

French former minister Rachida Dati has gone on trial in Paris for corruption, accused of taking money from Renault-Nissan in return for political influence.Dati, 61, who was justice minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy and culture minister under Emmanuel Macron, is known to have been paid €900,000 (£770,000) by the car giant between 2009 and 2013.According to a contract signed in 2009, shortly after she ceased being a minister under Sarkozy and was elected as a member of the European Parliament, the payment was for legal services performed for the company.But magistrates argue the contract was used to disguise payments…

Andy Burnham has insisted he is prepared to take “difficult decisions” on the economy, after a former Bank of England chief economist said investors were worried about his willingness to cut spending.Speaking on Tuesday, Andy Haldane, who has advised Burnham on the economy, claimed financial markets had grown wary of his economic plans and now considered his premiership a “traditional tax and spend socialist government”.But the PM rejected this, adding that he would not take risks with the economy and had already made difficult choices since taking office.It comes as recent rises to the cost of UK borrowing worsened the…