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Bitcoin Crash Leaves El Salvador With No Easy Exit From Worsening Crisis: Report
El Salvador's big bet on Bitcoin, which the Central American nation has been buying since September, has soured in recent weeks as a cryptocurrency rout shaved over a third of the value of the government's holdings.
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Offshore Financial Services' Hub Panama Adopts Crypto, Passes Law To Permit Digital Assets' Use
Lawmakers in Panama's National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialization ofcryptoassets in the Central American country renowned as a hub of offshore financial services.
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US Targets Russia's Central Bank In Latest Sanctions Action
United States on Monday blocked Americans from engaging in any transactions involving Russia's central bank, National Wealth Fund and finance ministry
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Bitcoin Has Future in More Countries, Young People Positive About Cryptocurrency: Cardano Founder
Cryptocurrency is slowly garnering attention from investors and governments alike. Bitcoin recently made its historic debut as a legal tender in El Salvador. Following the crypto landmark, Cardano founder and Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, said many more nations will follow the Central American country in adopting the largest cryptocurrency...
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Bitcoin Is Now Legal Currency In This Central American Country
The Congress of El Salvador has approved a law that will classify Bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country, its president said, making it the world's first nation to adopt a cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoin to Become Legal Tender in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele to Send Bill
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said that he will send a bill to Congress next week to make Bitcoin legal tender in the Central American nation, touting its potential to help Salvadorans living abroad send remittances home.
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US-Bound Migrants' Caravan Clash With Mexico Forces At Guatemala Border
Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to storm into Mexico Monday by fording the river that divides the country from Guatemala, but National Guardsmen fired tear gas to force them back.
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"Gangs Will Go After Him": El Salvador Bishop Urges US To Not Deport Son
The top Anglican bishop of El Salvador has urged the United States not to deport his son back to the troubled Central American nation, fearing brutal gangs who have threatened to murder the 34-year-old for refusing to work for them.
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"You Want A Cookie?": US Border Agents Offer Snacks, Medical Checks
The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.
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Ex-Guatemala Soldier Gets 5,160 Years In Jail For 201 Civil War Deaths
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 201 peasants during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil war.
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"Arrest, Detain And Deport": Donald Trump On People Entering US Illegally
Anyone entering the US illegally would be arrested, detained and then deported back, President Donald Trump has warned as he threatened three Central American nations to halt a migrant caravan from heading to America or lose millions of dollars in foreign aid.
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Russian Woman, Suspected Of US Election Sabotage, Arrested In Washington
A 29-year-old Russian woman living in Washington, DC, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian government while developing ties with American citizens and infiltrating political groups, the US Justice Department said on Monday.
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US Would Consider More Than 4,000 National Guards Troops At Border: White House
The White House said on Friday that it may consider sending more than 4,000 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico and will continue to work with California, which has resisted President Donald Trump's call to use the reserve military to support the border patrol.
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This Nation's Migrants Sent Home Record $5 Billion Remittances From US
Salvadorans living in the United States sent a record $5 billion home to their small Central American nation last year, the country's Central Bank said Saturday
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Thousands Of Central American Children Seek To Enter United States: United Nations
Thousands of children trying to escape gang violence and poverty in Central America have made their way to the United States this year - and there is no sign that the flow is letting up, the UN children's agency said in a report released late Monday.
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Bitcoin Crash Leaves El Salvador With No Easy Exit From Worsening Crisis: Report
El Salvador's big bet on Bitcoin, which the Central American nation has been buying since September, has soured in recent weeks as a cryptocurrency rout shaved over a third of the value of the government's holdings.
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Offshore Financial Services' Hub Panama Adopts Crypto, Passes Law To Permit Digital Assets' Use
Lawmakers in Panama's National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialization ofcryptoassets in the Central American country renowned as a hub of offshore financial services.
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US Targets Russia's Central Bank In Latest Sanctions Action
United States on Monday blocked Americans from engaging in any transactions involving Russia's central bank, National Wealth Fund and finance ministry
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Bitcoin Has Future in More Countries, Young People Positive About Cryptocurrency: Cardano Founder
Cryptocurrency is slowly garnering attention from investors and governments alike. Bitcoin recently made its historic debut as a legal tender in El Salvador. Following the crypto landmark, Cardano founder and Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, said many more nations will follow the Central American country in adopting the largest cryptocurrency...
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Bitcoin Is Now Legal Currency In This Central American Country
The Congress of El Salvador has approved a law that will classify Bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country, its president said, making it the world's first nation to adopt a cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoin to Become Legal Tender in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele to Send Bill
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said that he will send a bill to Congress next week to make Bitcoin legal tender in the Central American nation, touting its potential to help Salvadorans living abroad send remittances home.
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US-Bound Migrants' Caravan Clash With Mexico Forces At Guatemala Border
Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to storm into Mexico Monday by fording the river that divides the country from Guatemala, but National Guardsmen fired tear gas to force them back.
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"Gangs Will Go After Him": El Salvador Bishop Urges US To Not Deport Son
The top Anglican bishop of El Salvador has urged the United States not to deport his son back to the troubled Central American nation, fearing brutal gangs who have threatened to murder the 34-year-old for refusing to work for them.
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"You Want A Cookie?": US Border Agents Offer Snacks, Medical Checks
The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.
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Ex-Guatemala Soldier Gets 5,160 Years In Jail For 201 Civil War Deaths
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 201 peasants during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil war.
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"Arrest, Detain And Deport": Donald Trump On People Entering US Illegally
Anyone entering the US illegally would be arrested, detained and then deported back, President Donald Trump has warned as he threatened three Central American nations to halt a migrant caravan from heading to America or lose millions of dollars in foreign aid.
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Russian Woman, Suspected Of US Election Sabotage, Arrested In Washington
A 29-year-old Russian woman living in Washington, DC, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian government while developing ties with American citizens and infiltrating political groups, the US Justice Department said on Monday.
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US Would Consider More Than 4,000 National Guards Troops At Border: White House
The White House said on Friday that it may consider sending more than 4,000 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico and will continue to work with California, which has resisted President Donald Trump's call to use the reserve military to support the border patrol.
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This Nation's Migrants Sent Home Record $5 Billion Remittances From US
Salvadorans living in the United States sent a record $5 billion home to their small Central American nation last year, the country's Central Bank said Saturday
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Thousands Of Central American Children Seek To Enter United States: United Nations
Thousands of children trying to escape gang violence and poverty in Central America have made their way to the United States this year - and there is no sign that the flow is letting up, the UN children's agency said in a report released late Monday.
