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NASDAQ

VanEck’s First U.S. Spot BNB ETF Hits Nasdaq

Key Takeaways: VBNB is the first U.S. spot ETF with direct exposure to BNB to be officially launched by VanEck. The ETF provides investors with a derivative means to invest in BNB without having to self-custody it. VanEck pointed to BNB Chain’s 14-million daily transactions and 2.5-million active users as…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Targeted Killings

Kenyan court suspends US plan for Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya

Kenyan High Court Judge Patricia Nyaundi barred the government from admitting anyone exposed to or infected by Ebola under the planned agreement NAIROBI: A ‌Kenyan court has ordered the temporary suspension of a plan for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country after a…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Putin

BYD launches Xuanji A3, calls it China’s first 4nm smart driving chip

At BYD’s launch event on Thursday, Wang Chuanfu, chairman and founder of BYD, unveiled BYD’s self-developed Xuanji A3, China’s first 4nm autonomous driving chip, which supports L3 and L4 autonomous driving capabilities. The chip has entered mass production and supports L3 and L4 autonomous driving. A three-chip configuration delivers a…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Targeted Killings

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arrives in Singapore for Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore News

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arrived in Singapore on Friday (May 29) morning ahead of the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue, where he is expected to meet counterparts and regional leaders. The United States Air Force Boeing 747-E4B carrying Hegseth landed at Paya Lebar Air Base just after 3.15am. He was…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Pandemic

Nigeria added 65 healthtech startups after COVID-19, says report

Nigeria’s healthtech ecosystem added 65 startups between 2020 and 2025, according to the State of Healthtech in Nigeria 2026 report, curated by TechCabal Insights, Digital Health Nigeria, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative. The figure represents more than half of the 103 startups launched in the 15 years before the…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Aral Sea

How Kazakhstan resurrected the North Aral Sea

This post is part of Global Voices’ May 2026 Spotlight series, “Global crisis, local solutions.” This series will offer stories of resistance and successful climate action, insight into how communities in the Global South are fighting back against the crisis, analysis of what this might mean for future generations, and…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Electric Car

Trump’s misfire: The electric car takeover is now unstoppable

Opinion Ambrose Evans-Pritchard May 29, 2026 — 5:10pm The world market for electric vehicles is moving into the parabolic phase of the technology S-curve, the critical stage where disruption moves with lightning speed and the mathematical compound effect demolishes the old order. “Once you reach 5 per cent or 10…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

WEF

India emerges as strongest growth story in WEF outlook despite global slowdown fears

India emerged as the strongest growth story in the survey, with 52 per cent of chief economists expecting strong or very strong growth over the next 12 months, making it the geography with the most optimistic growth outlook. "India stands out as the most upbeat growth story in the survey,"…

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Antibiotics

Growth in confinement promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa tolerance to antibiotics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 22, June 2026. SignificanceDuring host colonization or infection, bacteria encounter spatially constrained environments, such as deep-seated infected tissues or abscesses that impose mechanical stress. As they grow under confinement, they generate internal forces whose ...Read More

bubmagMay 29, 2026

Pandemic

Correction for Astley et al., Global monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through online surveys sampled from the Facebook user base

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 22, June 2026.

bubmagMay 29, 2026

VanEck’s First U.S. Spot BNB ETF Hits Nasdaq

Kenyan court suspends US plan for Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya

BYD launches Xuanji A3, calls it China’s first 4nm smart driving chip

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arrives in Singapore for Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore News

Nigeria added 65 healthtech startups after COVID-19, says report

How Kazakhstan resurrected the North Aral Sea

Trump’s misfire: The electric car takeover is now unstoppable

India emerges as strongest growth story in WEF outlook despite global slowdown fears

Growth in confinement promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa tolerance to antibiotics

Correction for Astley et al., Global monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through online surveys sampled from the Facebook user base

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