Digital currency Bitcoin extended its record smashing rally on Saturday, beginning the year with a surge over $30,000 for the first time, with ever more traders and investors betting that it is on its way to becoming a mainstream payment method. The price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency traded as high as $31,824 early… Read More Bitcoin hits all-time record exchange rate above $30,000
Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said. The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the official said, and not a specific militant attack. “Proscribed organisation LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Zaki… Read More Pakistan arrests alleged Islamist militant group leader Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi on terrorism financing charges
A car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the border town of Ras al Ain in northeast Syria with reports of several killed and wounded, the Syrian state news agency reported on Saturday. There were no further details about casualties in the report, but residents said two people were killed and several were wounded.… Read More Two dead, several injured following car bomb attack at vegetable market in northeast Syria
An Afghan journalist was shot dead in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, the fifth media professional to be killed in the country in two months, officials said on Saturday. Bismellah Adel Aimaq, 28, the editor-in-chief of Sada-e-Ghor (Voice of Ghor) radio station, was killed near Firoz Koh city, the capital of… Read More Afghan journalist fatally shot in car ambush
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