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Bitcoin was up 11 percent in a day on Thursday morning. Photo: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP The price of bitcoin has surged and one New Zealand fund manager says many factors point to it continuing to rise. US president-elect Donald Trump has spoken as part of his re-election campaign about wanting to make the country the "crypto capital" of the planet. Bitcoin was up 11 percent in a day to NZ$128,110 or US$76,132 on Thursday morning. Dogecoin, which is a favourite of Trump supporter Elon Musk was also up almost 20 percent. Rupert Carlyon, founder of KiwiSaver provider Koura, which offers a crypto fund, said he expected prices to continue to rise. "Trump has been pretty clear he will support the industry, the US government will stop selling, he's going to undo a whole lo...

By Liam Reilly, CNN Donald Trump speaks to Fox News in the lead-up to the election. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Press freedom groups have sounded the alarm on the potential dangers facing journalists under a second Trump administration, denouncing threats from the president-elect and his associates to undermine the news media. In the hours after Donald Trump's decisive victory, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Freedom of the Press Foundation and American Sunlight Project called on the president-elect to end his attacks on the news media or altogether curb Trump's power to prevent a destabilizing onslaught against the press. "On the campaign trail and during his previous administration, President-elect Donald Trump has fre...

President Joe Biden at a pre-election campaign rally for Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz. Photo: AFP / Ting Shen United States President Joe Biden is due to address the nation after Republican Donald Trump stormed to victory in the presidential elections. Projections have Trump returning to the White House after clinching a number of battleground states in the country's east. Biden will speak about 5am Friday NZT. On Thursday, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris called Trump to concede the race. Follow all the action with RNZ's liveblog: Source link

President Volodymyr Zelensky was among the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump. Photo: AFP Ukraine appealed to Donald Trump's image as a tough leader in the hope of persuading the returning US president not to abandon its cause in pursuit of peace with Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky was among the first world leaders to congratulate Trump, who has criticised the scale of US military and financial support for Kyiv and vowed to end the war with Russia quickly without saying how. In a message released shortly after Trump claimed victory on Wednesday, Zelensky said he looked forward to an "era of a strong United States of America under President Trump's decisive leadership". "I appreciate President Trump's commitment to the 'peace through strength' approach in global affai...