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Kazakhstan ranked 24th in the KidsRights Index 2026, becoming the only country from Eastern Europe and Central Asia to enter the global top 25 and outpacing its Central Asian neighbors in the annual ranking of children’s rights. The index was released on June 24 by KidsRights, an Amsterdam-based international children’s rights organization, in cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam. It measures children’s rights in 194 countries. The leader in the index is Luxembourg, followed by Iceland and Monaco. Germany, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Belgium, Slovenia and Austria round up the top 10 in the list. Kazakhstan posted an overall score of 0.797 in the index. Its highest marks came in child protection at 0.944, and health at 0.900. The country also scored 0.847 in the life category...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Jul 09, 2026 — Ajman Bank, rated BBB+ (Stable) by Fitch, has successfully priced its inaugural USD 300 million Additional Tier 1 (AT1) Perpetual Non-Call 5.5-Year Sukuk at a profit rate of 6.500%, marking another important milestone in the Bank’s continued growth journey. The issuance reflects the strong confidence investors placed in Ajman Bank’s financial strength, strategic direction, and ongoing transformation. As the Bank’s first Ad ditional Tier 1 capital Sukuk issuance, this achievement builds on the success of its debut senior Sukuk issuance last year and highlights the progress made in strengthening its financial profile. Through this successful transaction, Ajman Bank continues to strengthen its capital foundation, diversify in its funding sources, a...

Taipei, Taiwan, July 8th, 2026, FinanceWire Investment Positions Nocera at the Intersection of the Global AI and Energy Infrastructure Build-Out, a Market Projected to Approach $7 Trillion by 2030 Nocera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCRA) (“Nocera” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire an equity interest in INERGX, an integrated energy storage and power platform being built to design, deploy and service mission-critical power and battery energy-storage systems supporting AI data centers, defense, industrial operations and critical infrastructure. Through this investment, Nocera is positioning itself at the intersection of one of the fastest-growing segments of the global AI infrastructure ecosystem, where reliable, scalable power has rapidly emerged a...

Montreal, Canada, July 8th, 2026, FinanceWire The Montreal-based trading platform is broadening its commitment to Canadian investors with a suite of new educational tools, updated market analysis resources, and enhanced retirement account guidance designed to serve both first-time and experienced traders across the country. Gerard McMann, the AI-powered financial trading and investment platform operating out of Montreal, Quebec, has announced a significant expansion of its investor education and market resources programme for the Canadian market. The initiative reflects a growing demand from the firm’s Canadian client base for structured, accessible learning tools that complement the platform’s existing trading infrastructure. The expansion adds dedicated sections to the Gerard McMann bro...

London, UK, July 8th, 2026, FinanceWire Yellow Stone Finance Group Ltd. has rolled out a trading platform built around three things retail and active traders consistently ask for: tighter spreads, faster execution, and access to a wider spread of markets from a single account. The platform, available now at yellowstone-financial.com, gives traders exposure to more than 10,000 instruments across forex, shares, metals, indices, commodities and crypto CFDs all routed through the same account, the same margin pool and the same pricing engine. For a company operating in the forex and CFD space, where execution speed and pricing transparency are often the deciding factor between brokers, Yellow Stone is leaning into both. The firm’s matching engine targets average execution speeds of around 40 ...

Getting attention online is easy for a moment. Keeping people interested is the difficult part. Every day, social media feeds are filled with creators trying to go viral, follow trends, or compete for visibility. Most disappear as quickly as they appear. But every now and then, someone manages to turn simple online attention into something more lasting. That’s the direction Jessica Lasher seems to be heading. The Vancouver-based internet personality has steadily built a growing audience across platforms by creating content that feels both confident and approachable at the same time. While many creators rely heavily on viral moments alone, Jessica’s online presence has developed through consistency, personality, and an understanding of what keeps people engaged long after they firs...

Every few months, social media seems to introduce a new personality that suddenly starts appearing everywhere. Sometimes it happens through one viral clip. Other times, it happens more naturally – through consistent content, growing engagement, and people sharing posts because they genuinely enjoy watching them. That’s exactly what seems to be happening with Jessica Lasher. Over the last year, the Vancouver-based creator has quietly built a growing online audience across multiple platforms, with fans continuing to discover her through Instagram, TikTok, X, and Snapchat. While she may still be considered a rising name in the creator space, more people online are starting to recognize her content the moment it appears on their feed. Part of that comes from the energy she brings onli...

Hip hop has grown into one of the world’s most influential cultural forces, shaping far more than music. In Unbecoming: The Miseducation of a Poet, author Taquarius Ford explores how hip hop, media, education, religion, and culture influence identity, beliefs, and the way we see ourselves. Rather than criticizing hip hop, Taquarius Ford examines its cultural impact and invites readers to ask an important question: How much of who we are was intentionally chosen, and how much was shaped by the world around us? Through personal reflection, cultural commentary, and poetic storytelling, Taquarius Ford encourages readers to think critically about the messages they consume and the voices that have helped shape their lives. “Culture is one of our greatest teachers,” says Taquarius Fo...

Hong Kong, July 8, 2026 — AxBlade, the accountability layer for autonomous AI, co-hosted the exclusive side event “From Agentic AI to Physical AI: What Gets Funded After the Model Wave?” alongside AWS Summit Hong Kong Week. Held at the Hopewell Hotel, the invitation-only gathering brought together 100+ founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and investors from AWS, NVIDIA, Y Combinator, Crypto.com, Roche, Pfizer, SNZ, and City University of Hong Kong to examine the critical infrastructure gap between AI demos and real-world deployment. From Models to Accountability: The Consensus The event opened with a keynote by Nick Hau, Founder of AxBlade, who argued that the next wave of AI funding will not go to larger language models, but to the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI accou...

July 8, 2026 — Primit today announced its official deployment on the Avalanche network, with the launch of Season 1: Primit × Avalanche “On-Chain Perp Frenzy” set for July 15. The 14-day trading incentive event features a total reward pool of 100,000USD equivalent in AVAX, open to all on-chain perpetual contract traders. Strategic Significance Primit selected Avalanche as its launch chain based on its sub-second finality and minimal gas costs. For perpetual trading, every millisecond of latency impacts liquidations and position safety. Avalanche’s architecture is inherently suited for high-concurrency, low-latency DeFi scenarios, while Primit’s orderbook and funding rate mechanisms deliver a CEX-grade experience on-chain. “We’re not simply deploying a frontend on Avalanche — we’re...