July 2 (Reuters) - Thailand's financial watchdog filed a criminal complaint against cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Friday for operating a digital asset business without a licence, the latest in a string of crackdowns on the platform by regulators globally.

Tensions spiked between the US and China as both countries sent warships into the Taiwan Strait over the weekend. The U.S. sent the USS Mustin on Saturday sailing through the geopolitically sensitive channel on a routine mission. The action drew a quick rebuke from Beijing, which claims to have shadowed the American warship.

For many, the problem of a rising China appears to be an issue for future generations. After all, despite the meteoric rise of the communist giant's economy, military and culture, the People's Republic lacks the basic ability to project power and maintain a force abroad thanks to its second-rate navy.

Commentary The Biden administration is using the U.S. military to secretly transport scores of illegal aliens across the nation and scatter them in various cities and towns - maybe in your neighborhood. And you're paying for it, whether you like it or not.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit dedicated to promoting press freedom, came out Friday against efforts by the U.S. to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Robert Mahoney, the CPJ 's deputy director, took issue with the Trump administration's pursuit of the jailed WikiLeaks founder ahead of his extradition trial starting Monday in London.

They were spooked out of their burrows by a bomb cyclone.

On Friday six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle serving as a 'SWIFT alternative' to bypass US sanctions on Iran.

Recycling was one of those great ideas of the 1970s, right? One of the first great movements to save the earth from resource depletion and the land and sea from human refuse? Who could even imagine, now, a modern nation without recycling bins, recycling plants, and yoghurt containers made with recycled materials?