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Free Malaysia Today
6 days ago
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
East Timor to deport ex-Philippine lawmaker wanted in 2023 killings
A provincial governor was killed while distributing aid at his home in Pamplona in the March 2023 attack. (AFP pic) MANILA : East Timor has agreed to deport an Interpol-wanted Philippines murder suspect after two years of political wrangling, with the government linking the case to its aspirations to join the regional Asean bloc. Former Philippines congressman Arnolfo Teves allegedly masterminded a March 2023 attack that killed then-provincial governor Roel Degamo and nine others. Teves was detained at a driving range in Dili last year, but a Timorese court blocked his extradition. Manila's justice secretary suggested the decision may have been bought, saying it was 'obvious that some people are making money out of this'. 'The government hereby informs that Arnolfo Teves Jr will be deported from Timor-Leste,' it said in a statement, using the country's alternate name. It added that East Timor's 'imminent full accession' to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had reinforced its responsibility to collaborate regionally on legal matters. Today, Manila's department of justice said it was preparing a team to facilitate Teves' repatriation based on deportation documents from East Timor. Ex-lawmaker Teves is the prime suspect in the murder of former Negros Oriental governor Degamo. Degamo had been distributing aid at his home in Pamplona when six people carrying rifles and dressed in military fatigues entered the compound and opened fire on March 4, 2023. The killings came months after Degamo was declared winner of a disputed vote, unseating Henry Teves, the ex-lawmaker's brother. Arnolfo Teves was expelled from the house of representatives after refusing to return to the Philippines to face murder charges. Yesterday, Teves' son Axl posted videos on social media of his father being dragged away by Timorese police, claiming he had been 'kidnapped'. Degamo's widow Janice, meanwhile, called the arrest a 'significant step towards justice'. Teves is currently being held in detention while awaiting administrative processing, a source at Dili's interior ministry told AFP.
BBC News
18-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Osasuna v Espanyol
Post Attempt missed. Alejandro Catena (Osasuna) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jon Moncayola with a cross following a corner.
Business Mayor
17-05-2025
- Business
- Business Mayor
Nostr In 2025 Is A Lot Like Bitcoin In 2012
I recently sat down with Vitor Pomplona, creator of Nostr client Amethyst, to discuss how Nostr in 2025 is a lot like what Bitcoin was like in 2012 — a bit rough around the edges, but exciting to use. Nostr, a decentralized protocol for social media and other forms of communication, is only four years old, and developers are still figuring out how to create the best possible user experience within the clients they've created. These clients include apps like Primal (which is comparable to X) to Olas (which is like Instagram) to Yakihonne (which is similar to Substack). What's unique about Nostr clients, though, is that users can 'zap' (send small amounts of) bitcoin to one another to show appreciation for the content their fellow users have created. And Pomplona is optimistic that more and more Nostr clients are starting to gain traction, just as Bitcoin began to do so 13 years ago. 'We are starting to see communities being formed and more money being transferred,' Pamplona told Bitcoin Magazine in the interview. Pomplona acknowledged that part of the purpose of social media is to enable means for users to monetize what they create in ways that they can't do in their physical environment. '[Some social media] users want to earn a living,' said Pomplona. 'They have hope that they can achieve more with social media than they can alone or in their cities.' Pamplona believes that Nostr clients can help transform that hope into a reality, and it's his mission to help users do this. 'That is our end goal: If we can get creators to the point where they can earn a living, we will win as a platform.' This potential for users to earn a living with Nostr becomes greater everyday, especially as the Nostr user base expands and it continues to grow as the largest bitcoin circular economy in the world. In creating Amethyst, Pamplona had a vision for a Nostr client that served as an all-in-one app, which was inspired by a plan similar to the one that Elon Musk had for X (formerly Twitter). 'Amethyst came in at the same time that Elon was talking about buying Twitter,' explained Pomplona. 'He was like let's make a mega app out of Twitter, and I went for the same thing.' While Pomplona understands that Amethyst didn't quite achieve this, he's excited that it's come to play a different role. It serves as a lab for people who are developing new Nostr clients. 'Amethyst is helping everybody kickstart their own applications,' he said. 'Olas came from Amethyst.' Pomplona sees Nostr as a great way to onboard people to Bitcoin, though he doesn't think this should be the primary goal of Nostr clients. 'The main goal for [Nostr] apps is to get people to do their thing — to get people to be creative, or to talk to their friends or to have a chat with their family,' explained Pomplona. 'No app should ever talk about either Nostr or Bitcoin. They should just be what they are,' he added. Pamplona believes that, after some time, the app's users will inevitably start to learn about Nostr's self-sovereignty Nostr provides when it comes to users being able to control their own data and about Bitcoin. '[They'll realize that] it just so happens that the platform helps them to manage their own data, and use best payment protocol we have today.' And he highlighted that most new users are coming to Nostr because of the freedom and censorship resistance it offers. 'In the past two years, most of the new Nostr users came in because of freedom, because of some censorship in their country,' said Pomplona. 'And they learned about Bitcoin after that.'
Telegraph
16-05-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
British gold bullion millionaire killed in Spanish motorcycle crash
A British gold bullion millionaire has died in a motorcycle accident in Spain. Paul Gerard Tustain, 62, veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided head-on with a van near Pamplona while en route to Logrono. He died at the scene. His daughter, who was travelling on another motorbike behind him, was understood to be accompanying him on a tour of Spain. Mr Tustain, who was born in Hartford, Cambridgeshire, was the founder and chairman of BullionVault, an online bullion investment service. Before his gold venture, he founded Sam Systems, which specialised in mid- and back-office functions for the banking and stockbroking sectors. The BMW rented motorbike he was on collided with a van on Thursday around 1.30pm local time on the NA-1110 road running beside the A-12 motorway, in a municipality called Iguzquiza, a 35-minute drive from Pamplona. A spokesman for the police force for Navarra, the region where the accident happened, said: 'The dead man's daughter saw he had strayed onto the wrong side of the road and tried to alert him with hand signals but it was too late. 'He smashed head-on into a van that couldn't do anything to avoid the collision. 'A post-mortem will show whether he might have suffered a health problem that could have caused him to go onto the wrong side of the road. 'Otherwise, it's likely to have been a fatal distraction.' Emergency services received a call around 1.40pm on Thursday. They sent ambulances and a helicopter to the scene, as well as police and firefighters, but there was nothing they could do to save Mr Tustain's life. Pictures from the crash scene showed the white van with its front end crumpled. A spokesman for local firefighters said: 'We were called about a head-on collision between a motorbike and a van on the NA-1110. 'The man on the motorbike died and the occupants of the van were unharmed.' A police investigation into the accident is under way. 'Best purchase I ever made' Mr Tustain moved into gold bullion after seeing Gordon Brown selling Britain's gold reserves in 2001. He was quoted in The Times in 2016 as saying: 'The fool was selling gold every two weeks, they were selling so much that they destroyed the price. 'I eventually bought three of the gold bars; the big chunky ones that James Bond tosses around. It was probably the best purchase I ever made.' He invested £275,000 rustled up from 30 family members and angel investors to establish BullionVault, a peer-to-peer site that allowed investors to buy small stakes in gold bars. A decade later, it looked after gold worth than £1.3 billion – equivalent to about 11 per cent of the Treasury's reserves, with a pre-tax profit of nearly £4 million. A BullionVault employee said: 'We are in shock at Paul's very sudden death. We will be releasing a statement in due course but at the moment we are still grieving. Our thoughts are very much with Paul's family.'
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Daily Mail
British millionaire investor, 62, is killed in front of his horrified daughter when his motorbike 'strays onto the wrong side of the road' and slams into a van on Spanish road
A British millionaire investor was killed in front of his horrified daughter in a 'brutal' head-on crash in northern Spain. Paul Gerard Tustain, 62, died yesterday after his rented BMW motorbike strayed onto the wrong side of a road near Pamplona before slamming into a van. The London-based entrepreneur and his daughter, who was travelling on another motorbike behind him, are understood to have been touring the country. They were heading for the town of Logrono when the tragic collision occurred, according to local police. A spokesman for the Navarra Foral Police said: 'The dead man's daughter saw he had strayed onto the wrong side of the road and tried to alert him with hand signals but it was too late. 'He smashed head-on into a van that couldn't do anything to avoid the collision. 'A post mortem will show whether he might have suffered a health problem that could have caused him to go onto the wrong side of the road. 'Otherwise it's likely to have been a fatal distraction. The force of the impact was brutal.' The tragedy happened on a stretch of the NA-1110 road between Azketa and Iratxe at around 1.30pm local time in a municipality called Iguzquiza, a 35-minute drive from Pamplona. Emergency services were called at around 1.40pm yesterday. They sent ambulances and a medicalised helicopter to the scene as well as police and firefighters, but there was nothing they could do to save his life. Pictures from the crash scene showed the white van with its front smashed in by the side of the road next to the dead man's motorbike across the tarmac. A spokesman for local firefighters said: 'We were called yesterday afternoon about a head-on collision between a motorbike and a van on the NA-1110. 'The man on the motorbike died and the occupants of the van were unharmed.' A spokesman for a regional emergency services coordination centre said: 'A motorcyclist died Thursday afternoon after colliding with a van on the NA-1110 road, in the municipality of Iguzquiza. 'The emergency management centre received notice of the accident at 13:38 hours on Thursday and sent firefighters to the scene along with a medical team, an advanced life support medicalised ambulance, a basic life support ambulance, a medical helicopter and police traffic patrols. 'The accident occurred when the motorcyclist collided head-on with a van at kilometer point 42.4 of the NA-1110 road. 'The emergency services mobilized could do nothing to save the life of the motorcyclist, a 62 year old man, who died at the scene. 'His body was taken to the Navarra Institute of Legal Medicine for an autopsy. A police investigation into the accident is underway.' The accident happened four days after a British couple aged 78 and 58 died in a horror crash in Boca de Huergano in the province of Leon, around four hours west of yesterday's tragedy, after their Ferrari skidded off the road and plunged into a river. The pair, driving a UK-plated vehicle, were found by rescuers after they reached the black Ferrari 488's remains lying in the Yuso river. They were reportedly part of a large convoy of around 20 other Ferrari owners. The group had arrived in the city of Leon, the capital of the province, the day before the crash. Police said earlier this week an investigation into the cause was still underway. Paul was the founder and chairman of BullionVault, the world's largest online bullion investment service, and which organised bulk crowdfunding of in-barrel Scotch whisky maturation. Before venturing into the finance and investment sector Paul founded SAM Systems which specialised in mid and back office functions of the banking and stockbroking sectors. Paul told how he got into gold bullion after seeing Gordon Brown selling Britain's gold reserves in 2001. He was quoted in the Times in 2016 as saying: 'The fool was selling gold every two weeks, they were selling so much that they destroyed the price. 'I eventually bought three of the gold bars; the big chunky ones that James Bond tosses around. It was probably the best purchase I ever made.' He invested £275,000 rustled up from 30 family members and angel investors to establish BullionVault, a peer-to-peer site that allowed investors to buy small stakes in gold bars. A decade later it looked after gold worth than $1.3 billion - equivalent to about 11 per cent of the Treasury's reserves, with a pre-tax profit of nearly £4million. A BullionVault employee said today: 'We are in shock at Paul's very sudden death. 'We will be releasing a statement in due course but at the moment we are still grieving.
