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AFP/APP Hong Kong: Asian equities rallied Thursday after US data showed inflation cooled last month, fuelling speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates twice this year. The news sent all three main indexes on Wall…

AFP/APP Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday after US shares dropped, with a jump in the yen sparking speculation that the Japanese government had intervened in the market for the second time this week. The benchmark Nikkei 225…

AFP/APP Hong Kong: Asian markets rose Monday, clawing back some of last week's losses, as Middle East worries subsided and traders looked ahead to the release of key US inflation data and corporate earnings after tensions between the…

AFP/APP  Tokyo: Tokyo stocks opened lower on Thursday after hotter-than-expected US inflation data drove down Wall Street shares, while the yen briefly hit a 34-year low. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index dropped 1.07 percent, or 425.06…

APP Rawalpindi: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and police, in a joint operation on Wednesday night, arrested three terrorists from the Adiala Jail area with explosives and the jail map. According to a police spokesman, it…

APP Islamabad: At least seven people were killed and 15 others badly injured in a traffic accident in the suburbs of Bagran, an area of Haripur, on Tuesday. The passenger bus fell into a deep trench due to overs peeding, a private…

APP Islamabad: Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi strongly condemned the harassment faced by a woman wearing a Kurta inscribed with Arabic script on Monday. In a video message, he said the incident,…

News Desk Islamabad: Tensions have surfaced within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party as political leadership and legal representatives find themselves at odds. According to sources, the discord between the party's legal team…

AFP/APP Washington: Israel will let shipments of flour for Palestinians through the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke. The move comes…

AFP/APP Wajima: Japanese rescuers scrambled to search for survivors on Wednesday as authorities warned of landslides and heavy rain after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 62 people. The 7.5-magnitude quake on January 1 that…