Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to “take over” Gaza, as his defense minister instructed the Israeli military to draw up a plan that would enable the “voluntary departure” of Palestinian residents in Gaza. “This is the first good idea that…
Australia has introduced strict laws to combat hate crimes, introducing mandatory minimum sentences for a range of terrorism offenses and displaying hate symbols, following a spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. The new laws passed Thursday toughen punishment for hate crimes, including minimum six-year prison sentences for terrorism…
Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce fighting with the Congolese army. Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN mission in DR…
Panama denied a claim made by the State Department on Wednesday that the Central American nation had agreed to no longer charge fees for US government ships to transit the country’s famous canal. “In response to a publication released by the United States Department of State, the Panama Canal Authority,…
Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony. The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and ran to confront them. The…
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. Between nine and 13 female inmates, “all of whom had…
In this exclusive StockCharts video, Joe presents a trading strategy using the simple moving average. Explaining what to watch and how it can tell you what timeframe to trade, he shares how to use it in multiple timeframes. Joe covers the QQQ and IWM and explains the levels to monitor…
The trading week started with investors worried about tariffs, but the 30-day delay of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico shook off those worries. The three broad stock market indexes — S&P 500 ($SPX), Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ), and Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) — closed higher. Then came the…
On Wednesday morning, the markets wavered, with cautious trading across the board, except for the Dow, which outpaced the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Looking for stocks showing strength amid the uncertainty, I turned to the Market Movers tool on my Dashboard. What I found caught my attention. FIGURE 1. MARKET…
Here is a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Wednesday (February 5) as of 9:00 a.m. UTC. Bitcoin and Ethereum price update Bitcoin started the day trading at US$98,509, reflecting a 0.96 percent decline from its previous close. The day’s trading range saw a high of US$100,797 and a…