ISTANBUL (AA) — Bitcoin plunged more than 5% in the past 24 hours after the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) reiterated that all digital asset activities remain illegal in the country, sending shockwaves through global crypto markets. The central bank said cryptocurrencies — including stablecoins — pose financial risks and cannot be used as money...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (MNTV) — Pope Leo XIV called on Lebanon’s political leadership to place peace above all other priorities as the country faces ongoing Israeli airstrikes and the broader fallout of regional conflict. His remarks came during the second leg of his inaugural overseas trip as pontiff, following a four-day visit to Turkey. The U.S.-...
TEL AVIV (MNTV) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared at the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday for the first time since formally requesting a pardon from President Isaac Herzog in his long-running corruption trial. On Sunday, Netanyahu submitted a plea to President Herzog seeking clemency from the corruption charges that have do...
JAKARTA (MNTV) – Rescue teams in Indonesia are still racing to reach communities cut off by a week of cyclone-fueled torrential rain, as authorities confirmed on Saturday that the nationwide death toll from catastrophic floods and landslides has risen to 303. Officials said the figure is likely to increase, with more than 100 people stil...
Sri Lanka (MNTV) — Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday as the death toll from catastrophic flooding and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah climbed to at least 193, with authorities warning that the number could rise further. Local media reported that 220 people remain missing. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake enacted the ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The United Nations has appointed eminent Indian jurist Justice S. Muralidhar as Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, placing a longtime defender of civil liberties and judicial independence at the center of one of t...
DAMASCUS, Syria (MNTV) — At least 13 people, including children, were killed and 25 others injured after Israeli forces carried out a fresh ground incursion and air strikes in the Damascus countryside town of Beit Jinn on Friday, according to Syrian state media. Syria’s state broadcaster said two children were among those killed in the [&helli...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The northeastern Indian state of Assam, governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday introduced a sweeping law to criminalize polygamy, a move that opposition parties and rights groups say is designed to target the state’s large Bengali-origin Muslim population ...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — Two US National Guard members were shot near the White House on Wednesday, prompting President Donald Trump to call the attack “an act of evil, hatred and terror” and triggering an immediate freeze on all Afghan immigration processing. Trump, speaking from Florida, said the suspect entered the country from Afghanistan in 20...
TAI PO (MNTV) — The number of fatalities from Wednesday’s massive residential fire in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district has risen to 55, while 279 people remain unaccounted for, authorities said. The blaze erupted around midday in a sprawling complex of more than 1,900 apartments and spread with alarming speed, fueled by bamboo scaffolding and [&hel...
