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April 24 (Reuters) - Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls where 27 people died, opens new tab in a ‌2025 flash flood, cannot be licensed to reopen, Texas authorities said, citing nearly two dozen deficiencies in the riverfront camp's emergency preparedness plan.
An 11-page notice from the state Health and Human Services Department gives the camp 45 ​days to submit a new emergency plan to resolve the shortcomings the agency identified, ​including flaws in the camp's evacuation and flood-warning measures.
A department spokesperson said on ⁠Friday the emergency deficiency letter, part of the state's licensing application review process, was sent ​to camp leaders on Thursday as the camp sought to reopen this summer with enhanced safety precautions
The camp ​said in a statement that it was "carefully reviewing" the notice, the Texas Tribune reported. Representatives for the camp did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
The letter labeled 22 components in the camp's emergency ​flood plan as "insufficient," "missing" or "incomplete," meaning they will "require attention to meet full compliance."
Among the flaws cited in ​the notice, the department said the camp failed to provide adequate evacuation route maps or enumerate what actions ‌staff members ⁠were responsible for taking in the event of an evacuation.
The plan should include clearly defined procedures for assisting individuals with access and functional needs, such as assigning specific staff to provide assistance, establishing a buddy system, ensuring accessible evacuation routes, accommodating assistive devices, addressing transportation needs, and ensuring ​emergency warnings are accessible," the ​department wrote in ⁠its letter.
The camp, the department said, also lacks a plan identifying specific staff responsible for monitoring and maintaining the facility's weather-alert radio system.
Lara Anton, a ​department spokesperson, said most of the 174 youth camps statewide had received ​similar notices ⁠as a result of tougher emergency safety regulations instituted in the aftermath of the 2025 floods.
Twenty-seven campers and staff members at Camp Mystic perished after heavy downpours in Texas Hill Country transformed the Guadalupe ⁠River ​into a killer torrent on July 4, 2025.
Widespread flash flooding ​that struck the region that morning and in the following days killed nearly 140 people in the sixth-deadliest freshwater flood ​disaster in the United States.
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Australia’s composite PMI bounced to 51, but underlying manufacturing output remains in contraction as fuel costs bite.
The US-Iran ceasefire extension hasn't calmed energy jitters, with Brent crude surging back above $100/barrel.
Despite a choppy pullback, the pair is holding above the 0.7133 support level, keeping the medium-term bullish trajectory alive.
Risk is having a hard time finding its feet today. I’ve been watching the DXY climb back toward 98.78 as the peace premium from the US-Iran ceasefire extension evaporates faster than a puddle in the Outback. While the diplomatic headlines look okay on paper, the physical reality in the Strait of Hormuz is paralyzed. Oil is back in triple digits. Brent at over $100. That’s a massive headwind for global growth. AUD/USD, our favorite proxy for global sentiment, is caught in a tug-of-war between a resilient domestic data set and a broad safe-haven bid for the greenback. We’re seeing a classic rotation into safety.
The headline numbers out of Australia this morning were a welcome surprise. The preliminary composite PMI bounced back to 51, technically returning to the expansion zone after an underwhelming March. But don’t break out the champagne just yet. I think this is a bit of a mirage. If you look under the hood, the manufacturing sector is still struggling with declining new orders and shrinking inventories. Firms are flagging massive pressure from shipping and fuel costs. The RBA is stuck. With the cash rate at 4.10% and energy prices fueling a secondary wave of inflation, they simply can’t afford to blink.
The technical structure hasn’t broken. Not yet. Looking at the 0.001-brick Renko, we’re seeing some chop after the pair hit a recent peak of 0.7221. Price is currently compressing just above the green trend support band. I noticed the Supertrend level at 0.71337 is acting as a rigid line of defense for the bulls. Momentum is soft, the RSI is sitting below 50. But it’s reset, not washed out. As long as we hold above that 0.7133 floor and stay well clear of the 500-SMA, the path of least resistance remains higher. This is a bull trend catching its breath.
Medium-Term Path: I expect AUD/USD to continue digesting its recent gains within a 0.7060 to 0.7210 range. The market has finally stopped trading on ceasefire hopes and is starting to price in a permanent energy shock. We’re watching for a clean break above 0.71875 to target a re-test of the 0.7221 highs. If 0.7133 fails on a daily close, expect a deeper flush toward the 500 SMA. Keep your eyes on the US jobless claims later today. The dollar’s dominance is the only thing standing in the way of an Aussie sprint.
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Admiral Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told two congressional panels this week that the military is running a live Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing and views the protocol as a tool of national power in competition with China.
The House comments were the first public confirmation by a sitting US combatant commander that the military is directly participating in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network.
We have a node on the Bitcoin network right now," Paparo said, responding to questions from Rep. Lance Gooden. "We're not mining Bitcoin. We're using it to monitor, and we're doing a number of operational tests to secure and protect networks using the Bitcoin protocol.
A Bitcoin node is a computer that stores the full history of the blockchain and enforces the network's rules, relaying validated transactions across the peer-to-peer network. Unlike mining, it does not earn rewards and does not require specialized hardware
Running a node is how participants in Bitcoin verify the network state independently rather than trusting third parties. There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 publicly reachable full nodes on the network as of early 2026, with the real number likely higher because many operate behind firewalls
One node out of tens of thousands poses no threat to Bitcoin's independence or its resistance to any single party controlling it.
But a US military combatant command running that node is notable because Bitcoin's design has long been framed as a defense against takeover attempts by powerful governments, and INDOPACOM is the command responsible for US military operations across the Indo-Pacific, including the theater of strategic competition with China.
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A historical village hall which is currently being refurbished has been badly damaged in a break-in.
Burglars broke water pipes and flooded part of the century-old East Boldre Village Hall in the New Forest, its management team said.
The vandalism, including damage to wires and cables, will have a "serious impact" on the renovation project, the team added.
Hampshire police said items including tools were stolen some time between 17:00 BST on 15 April and 08:30 on 16 April.
Trustees raised more than £450,000 for the refurbishment, which began at the start of February.
In a Facebook post, they said: "The wanton vandalism damaged the recently installed fire alarm cables and electrical wiring and water pipes were damaged resulting in a flood.
This is a serious setback for the works programme in terms of time and cost."
The village hall, built in 1918 as an RAF concert hall, is the last remaining building from the World War One Beaulieu Airfields, according to the charity that runs it.
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Lufthansa cuts 20,000 summer flights as fuel prices surge
Several airlines, including KLM-France and Delta, have also temporarily cut some flights while others have raised ticket prices as they pass on expenses to customer.
Jet fuel has doubled in price since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict has slowed its production and transportation across the Middle East.
Analysts have warned that travellers should expect further ticket price rises and more cancelled flights as the conflict continues.
The Gulf is a major source of aviation fuel, accounting for about 50% of Europe's imports. The bulk of it comes through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed in response to US and Israeli attacks.
The increase in jet fuel prices reflects the role Middle Eastern refineries play in supplies. The Al-Zour refinery in Kuwait alone provides roughly 10% of Europe's jet fuel imports, according to Energy Intelligence.
The International Energy Agency warned last week that Europe could run out of jet fuel in weeks, though the UK government and airlines say they are not seeing a disruption in supply.
Lufthansa said on Tuesday it was cutting down its European network, but that passengers will "continue to have access to the global route network, particularly long-haul connections".
However, due to the increase in jet fuel prices, this will be achieved significantly more efficiently than before."
The announcement on Tuesday comes after the firm said last week it was speeding up the permanent closure of its European flight offering CityLine.
It said this would save "approximately 40,000 metric tons of jet fuel
It also said at the time it was retiring the programme's 27 aircraft, partly due to "significantly increased kerosene prices", but also because of "additional burdens from labor disputes
Lufthansa said "the first 120" of these flight cuts were implemented on Tuesday. Routes affected include those from Frankfurt to Poland and Norway.
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Funding rates at 2023 lows signal the market is heavily short against bitcoin, ZeroStack's Daniel Reis-Faria says, setting up conditions for a forced unwind if prices push higher.
The MSCI All Country World Index closed at a record high Thursday before slipping 0.1% in Asia. The S&P 500 also hit an all-time high. Brent crude fell 1.2% to $98.20 after President Donald Trump said prospects for a permanent Iran ceasefire were "looking very good."
Trump claimed, without evidence, that Tehran had agreed to give up its nuclear ambitions, turn over nuclear material, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz as part of the deal. Iran has not confirmed those concessions.
A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was announced separately on Thursday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirming the truce in a video message. Markets are trading the headlines as if the deal is closer than it is, which is part of why equities have unwound most of the war premium while crude remains near $98 and the Strait of Hormuz is still effectively shut.
However, the setup underneath the flat bitcoin price action is what some traders are paying attention to.
Bitcoin perpetual funding rates have turned deeply negative in recent sessions, reaching levels last seen in 2023. Funding is the periodic payment perpetual futures traders exchange with each other to keep contract prices aligned with spot. When it goes negative, shorts are paying longs, which only happens when the market is heavily positioned against price.
Funding rates this negative tell you the market is heavily short," Daniel Reis-Faria, CEO of ZeroStack, said in a note shared with CoinDesk. "If Bitcoin continues to move higher despite that, a lot of those positions could get liquidated, and the move can accelerate quickly."
Reis-Faria expects bitcoin could reach $125,000 in the next 30 to 60 days if the short base gets squeezed out.
The contrarian read from on-chain analyst CryptoVizArt is that bitcoin's "True Market Mean," a metric that estimates the average cost basis of active investors by filtering out lost and dormant coins, suggests the average active holder is currently underwater.
Since 2016, meaningful stretches below the True Market Mean have aligned with bitcoin's worst periods, including the 2018-19 bear (-57% max drawdown, 282 days) and the 2022-23 unwind after the Luna and FTX collapses (-56%, 339 days).
The two reads do not have to be in conflict. A short squeeze from negative funding and a structural drawdown from underwater holders can both be true, with the former triggering the kind of outsized rally that ultimately gets sold into by the latter.
Which scenario dominates likely depends on whether the U.S.-Iran ceasefire extension holds past next week.
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BTC is up 10% for the month, but the bull run has stalled near $75,000 in the past 48 hours. Here's why.
It is evident from an on-chain indicator called realized profit/loss, which tracks the total dollar value of gains or losses locked in by holders when they move their coins on-chain. The indicator compares the current price at which coins are being moved with the price at which they last moved (the assumed acquisition cost), effectively showing whether investors are selling at a profit or a loss.
Values above 1 indicate increased profit-taking, and the 30-day exponential moving average (EMA) is currently well above that threshold. The EMA is used to smooth out day-to-day noise and highlight the broader trend in realized profits.
Profit-taking activity is rising, with the 30D EMA of the Realized Profit/Loss Ratio at 1.16, indicating investors are selling into strength. A sustained move above $78.1K will require the market to absorb this overhead supply," analytics firm Glassnode said in a report.
Profit-taking was particularly strong on Tuesday as Bitcoin briefly climbed toward $76,000 before quickly slipping back below $75,000. According to CryptoQuant, investors realized about $1.14 billion in profits during the move, one of the largest single-day readings this year.
The indicator, though widely tracked, has limitations, mainly that it assumes coins moving on-chain are being sold. In reality, they may simply be moving between wallets or exchanges for custody, rebalancing, or internal transfers
That said, the latest profit-taking signal aligns with other indicators, such as the cumulative volume delta, suggesting demand is concentrated on specific exchanges while activity remains weaker elsewhere
The CVD is a measure of who is more aggressive in the market. It shows whether the market is being driven more by buyers demanding liquidity or by sellers hitting bids.
So far, buyers have been aggressive mainly on Binance, but not so much on Coinbase or other exchanges, according to Glassnode
Vikram Subburaj, CEO of India-based FIU-registered exchange Giottus, echoed the view, saying sentiment is improving, but conviction is still not yet fully established
Funding rates remain slightly negative, showing that traders are still cautious and not yet leaning aggressively long. On-chain activity has slowed down. This suggests the market is consolidating, not overheating," he said.
Further, bitcoin options trading on Deribit continues to show a bias for put options across all time frames. It indicates lingering downside fears and demand for protection offered by puts
Taken together, profit-taking pressure, uneven spot demand, and cautious derivatives positioning all indicate that buyers are absorbing supply but not yet overwhelming
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Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has told his Lebanese counterpart that a ceasefire in Lebanon is “as important” as in Iran, according to a statement on social media.
In talks to end the war between Iran and the United States, Ghalibaf wrote on Telegram on Thursday that Tehran has “been striving to compel our enemies to establish a permanent ceasefire in all the conflict zones, in accordance with the agreement
“For us, a ceasefire in Lebanon is just as important as a ceasefire in Iran,” he told Lebanon’s Nabih Berri in a phone conversation, according to his post
Ghalibaf led the Iranian delegation at the first US-Iran meeting in Pakistan last week, which ended without a deal
Tehran has consistently said the ceasefire to stop the war on Iran must apply to Lebanon as well, something the US and Israel claim is not part of the deal
Ghalibaf told Berri that the Iranians “have never forgotten our Lebanese brothers and consider them to be among us”, the Telegram post added
Berri detailed the latest Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the post continued, and told Ghalibaf that so far 1.2 million Lebanese people have been displaced by the fighting
Israel is literally committing crimes in our country and seeking to displace Lebanese people,” the post quoted Berri as saying.
“Any official communication and consultation with the Zionist regime [Israel] is definitely not in the interests of the Lebanese people,” Berri told Ghalibaf, adding that he appreciated Iran’s efforts in helping to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Lebanon was pulled into the US-Israel war on Iran on March 2, after Tehran-aligned Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel
Hezbollah said the attacks were in retaliation for Israel’s killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war, on February 28, as well as Israel’s near-daily violations of a ceasefire it agreed to in Lebanon in November 2024.
Since then, Israeli forces have killed more than 2,000 people in Lebanon
Late on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon would speak to each other for the first time in 34 years on Thursday. Although an Israeli official confirmed the reports, the Lebanese government has not yet commented. The Reuters news agency cited several Lebanese officials as saying Aoun would not speak with Netanyahu.
In a call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, Aoun expressed appreciation “for the efforts Washington has been making to reach a ceasefire”, a statement from the Lebanese president’s office said. But it did not mention any possible call with Netanyahu
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Нисэко - первый в мире крипто-горнолыжный курорт на острове Хоккайдо. Это место популярно среди туристов, особенно из Австралии и Китая, и в последние годы активно развивает инфраструктуру, связанную с криптовалютами.
Что там происходит?
• В 2017 году в Нисэко начали принимать биткоины в качестве оплаты за жильё, еду и аренду оборудования.
• В некоторых отелях, ресторанах и магазинах отказались от фиатных денег и работают только с криптой.
• Это стало частью эксперимента по внедрению блокчейн-технологий в туристическую индустрию.
• Была запущена платформа Niseko Bitcoin Village, созданная для упрощения расчетов в BTC.
Зачем это сделали?
1. Для привлечения криптоэнтузиастов – Япония одна из самых продвинутых стран в плане крипторегулирования, и такой шаг мог привлечь больше туристов.
2. Для удобства международных гостей – Многие приезжие из Китая, Австралии и США предпочитают платить криптой, чтобы не терять деньги на обмене валют.
3. Для тестирования децентрализованных финансов – Это был своего рода эксперимент, чтобы понять, можно ли создать автономную экономику на основе крипты.

Однако сейчас проект работает не в полном объёме – после пандемии некоторые заведения вернулись к традиционным методам оплаты. Но Нисэко до сих пор считается одной из первых крипто-дружественных туристических зон в мире.

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