International

15-06-2022 NEW YORK: Bitcoin tumbled on Wednesday to a new 18-month low, dragging smaller tokens down with it and spurring a sharp fall in crypto markets sparked by crypto lender Celsius freezing customer withdrawals. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 7.8 percent to $20,289, its lowest since December …

14-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ ISTANBUL/ TEHRAN: Israel has urged its citizens to avoid Turkey’s largest city Istanbul or return home “as soon as possible” if already there due to what it said was a threat of Iranian attempts to kill or abduct vacationing Israelis. Issuing the warning on Monday, the Israeli government …

14-06-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: Al-Qaeda’s armed men killed hundreds of more Shia Muslims in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso yesterday night but neither the country’s media was allowed to report nor any international news outlet did flash this Shia mass killing like past, a local and a security source and …

14-06-2022 ATALAIA DO NORTE: Search teams have found two bodies in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest while looking for a British reporter and a Brazilian indigenous expert, the Guardian reported on Monday, citing a relative of the journalist briefed by a Brazilian diplomat. On Sunday, Brazilian police said search teams had found …

13-06-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to silence Muslim voices against extremism, authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state demolished the homes of numerous Muslims accused of involvement in rioting last week sparked by insulting remarks made by governing party politicians about …

13-06-2022 KYIV/ LVIV: Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said on Sunday. Sievierodonetsk has become the epicenter of the battle for control over Ukraine’s eastern Donbas …

13-06-2022 STOCKHOLM: The number of nuclear weapons in the world is set to rise in the coming decade after 35 years of decline as global tensions flare amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, researchers said Monday. The nine nuclear powers Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, the United States, …

13-06-2022 KHARTOUM/ RIYADH: An overladen ship crammed with thousands of sheep sank on Sunday in Sudan’s Red Sea port of Suakin, drowning most animals on board but with all crew surviving. The livestock vessel was exporting the animals from Sudan to Saudi Arabia when it sank after several thousand more …

13-06-2022 TEHRAN/ CARACAS: Iran and Venezuela, oil producers grappling with crippling US sanctions, signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran on Saturday, with the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader saying the allies would continue to resist pressure from Washington. The signing ceremony, carried by Iranian state TV, was overseen by Iranian …

13-06-2022 BAGHDAD: Iraqi lawmakers loyal to influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned from parliament in order to break the country’s political deadlock. The Arab country has failed to form a new government nearly eight months after parliamentary elections. According to a report published by the official Iraqi News Agency, members of …