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KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 18 Pakistanis, including 12 children, were killed in a bus fire as they journeyed home after fleeing catastrophic monsoon flooding, officials and rescue workers said Thursday (Oct 13). Pakistan has been hit by unprecedented monsoon rains this year, putting a third of the nation underwater, displacing 8 million people, and causing US$28 billion worth of devastation. As the waters slowly recede, thousands of the displaced – many living in ramshackle tent cities – are travelling back to their sodden homes to remake their lives. Police said the passengers died when flames broke out overnight on a…

After reaching its all-time highest value of almost $67,800 in November 2021, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has been on the decline ever since.The pioneering cryptocurrency has halved in value since the start of the year and has demonstrated an overtly bearish trend for much of this period. But things may be starting to turn around.Recent data collected across a variety of metrics now indicates that Bitcoin’s price bottom is in sight, and the market may be on the cusp of a sharp turnaround. And it appears that the institutional traders have already begun to make their moves.Bitcoin Open Interest…

PH YET TO MAKE A FIRM DECISION At the same time, states under PH have yet to make a firm decision on whether to dissolve the state assemblies.  PH chairman Anwar Ibrahim said although the three states under the coalition – Penang, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan were still tied to an earlier decision by the PH presidential council not to dissolve the state assemblies, the state politicians have been told to hold detailed discussions with their component party leadership to find common ground. “Discuss again in detail with the party leadership for a joint decision to be made,” he was…

Rescue workers continue to try to locate missing residents of a central Venezuela town, clearing rocks and mud from the streets of Las Tejerias three days after it was hit by a massive landslide that killed dozens. Neighbours and rescuers — approximately 3,000 police, soldiers and other professionals — were engaged on Tuesday in an ever-more desperate search for possible survivors, but hope was quickly fading. Officials said the landslide had killed at least 36 people, but warned the death toll could increase as bodies are found farther downstream from the hardest-hit neighbourhoods in the town, located about 50km (31…

NEW BOSTON, Texas — Prosecutors asked a Texas jury Wednesday to sentence a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn daughter from her womb.The appeal came as the penalty phase of Taylor Parker’s capital murder trial began for the October 2020 murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and theft of her unborn baby. Taylor Rene Parker in court, in New Boston, Texas, on Sept. 12, 2022.KTALThe Bowie County jury previously found Parker guilty of capital murder.Prosecutor Kelley Crisp told jurors that the evidence would show Parker, 29, faked a pregnancy and repeatedly lied before killing Simmons-Hancock, 21, at the woman’s New Boston…

Mark Allen has declared himself bankrupt and opened up about the reasons for his current financial woes.The Northern Irish snooker star concedes he made “some wrong moves” in the past and reflected on a tumultuous period as the money went out as fast as it came in.”I just overspent in every aspect of my life,” he told BBC Sport .Snooker’It was the best feeling’ – O’Sullivan on having his kids watch him win seventh world title2 HOURS AGO”Bankruptcy was the only choice. It’s easy to read that I made £3.5m on the table, but I spent it as fast it…

Yorkshire Water, one of the UK’s biggest water companies, has tapped shareholders for £940mn to shore up its fragile balance sheet.The company, which serves 2.3mn households and 130,000 businesses in north-west England, had been under scrutiny from water regulator Ofwat, which raised concerns over its “financial health” in its annual report on the industry last year. The money will be used to pay down intracompany loans under Yorkshire Water’s complicated structure, which includes a holding company called Kelda Group, registered in Jersey, and investors Deutsche Asset Management, the private equity fund Corsair Capital and the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC.…

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak is among the nominees put forth by the United Malays National Organisation’s (UMNO) division in Pekan, Pahang to contest there during the upcoming general election. According to Malaysian media reports, Najib, who is currently serving a 12-year jail term, is among the five names that have been put forth for the Pekan contest. “There are no plans to place Najib’s children to contest the Pekan parliamentary seat if he is not eligible to contest,” Pekan UMNO division deputy head Zamri Ramly told Utusan Malaysia.  “Instead, whoever is chosen for the seat will…

Hurricane Ian not only left a path of destruction in Florida, but also added homeless or lost pets to animal shelters that were already struggling with being overcapacity. Manatee County Animal Welfare was one of many shelters across south Florida experiencing a surge in animals post-Ian, Fox 13 Tampa Bay reported.”We started to see almost double the animals coming into our facility on a daily basis,” Sarah Brown, the division chief of Manatee County Animal Services, told the outlet. “While we were already at critical capacity it was even more critical to start to move some of those adoptable animals out…

The forecast for Thursday has not improved, meaning Game 2 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Guardians in The Bronx remains in jeopardy — as do the pitching plans for both teams. Nestor Cortes, who will start for the Yankees in Game 2 — either Thursday or Friday — would have been available to come back on short rest for a potential Game 5 on Monday back at the Stadium. On Wednesday, the lefty said he would be ready to pitch in some capacity in that game, though both he and the Yankees hope they have the series wrapped…