Instagram and Facebook users will soon be required to pay to have their accounts verified, after parent company Meta joined Twitter as the latest tech giant to adopt a subscription model amid cost-cutting measures across the industry.

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The country’s holdings, including those frozen by Western sanctions, have surpassed $540 billion Russia has risen to fourth place among the world’s largest economies in terms of foreign exchange reserves, RIA Novosti calculations published on Saturday show.