Editor’s Note: Warning: This article contains descriptions of torture. Saman Yasin thought he was leaving prison. It was 5 a.m. and the guards had just told him to pack up his belongings. But the next thing he knew, he was blindfolded with a noose around his neck. “I could tell that they had brought in…
The Israeli military struck southern Beirut on Friday for the first time since November, after Israel said that two projectiles had been fired from Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it “struck a terrorist infrastructure site used to store UAVs by Hezbollah’s Aerial Unit (127) in the area of Dahieh, a key Hezbollah terrorist…
British police raided a Quaker meeting house in London on Thursday and arrested six women attending a meeting on climate change and the war in Gaza, according to a statement from Quakers UK. “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” said Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, according…
The first time he flew his cargo plane through the clouds over his hometown of Kabul, Tauheed Khan swelled with pride. During the US-led, 20-year war against the Taliban, Afghan Air Force pilots played a key role alongside American counterparts, some carrying out strikes that inflicted heavy casualties on the hardline Islamists. That coalition ended…
Anxious loved ones waited outside a twisted mass of metal and concrete in the heart of Thailand’s capital on Saturday as rescuers searched for dozens of missing workers and the city confronted the aftermath of a rare and powerful earthquake that set skyscrapers swaying and rattled millions of residents. Friday’s 7.7-magnitude quake struck hundreds of…
Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Wednesday (March 26) as of 9:00 p.m. UTC. Bitcoin and Ethereum price update Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading at US$86,622.95, a 1.7 percent decrease over the past 24 hours. The day’s trading range has seen a low of US$85,862.55 and a high of US$87,812.64. The crypto…
(TheNewswire) March 28, 2025 TheNewswire – Vancouver, BC – Providence Gold Mines Inc. (‘the Company’), The Company is pleased to announce that it has been granted an extension of its previously announced Private Placement (November 20, 2024, December 6, 2024, January 16, 2025 and February 14 th 2025) until April 30,2025. As announced, a placement…
Bitcoin Well Inc. (TSXV: BTCW) (OTCQB: BCNWF) (‘Bitcoin Well’ or the ‘Company’), the non-custodial bitcoin business on a mission to enable independence, announced today that it has established an at-the-market equity program (the ‘ATM Program’) that allows the Company to issue and sell, at its discretion, up to $5,000,000 of common shares (‘Shares’) to the…
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis released February personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index data on Friday (March 28). The figures show inflation increased 2.5 percent on an annualized basis in February, aligning with analyst expectations and reflecting no change from the 2.5 percent recorded in January. On a monthly basis, inflation rose by 0.3 percent,…
The gold price continued moving higher this week, reaching yet another record. After trading as low as US$3,006 per ounce on Monday (March 24), the yellow metal took off midway through the week, closing at US$3,085 on Friday (March 28). So what factors are moving gold right now? Many experts agree that the precious metal…
