Emerging market debt sales hit January record despite elusive flows, will rise to $165b this year
According to JPMorgan calculations, adding coupons to maturities and comparing to gross issuance should have left dedicated emerging markets hard currency funds with a $78 billion cash pile to invest over the past two years. But taking into account outflows, that would have shrunk to just $8 billion, the bank said in a recent note to clients.
Ex-Pakistan PM and cricket icon Imran Khan and his wife sentenced to 7 years in prison for ‘unlawful marriage’
Bushra was accused of not completing the waiting period mandated by Islam, called “Iddat”, after divorcing her previous husband and marrying Khan.
Family behind bars: Party says Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s wife jailed for 14 years in graft case
Wednesday’s verdict was linked to the same matter, but followed an investigation by the country’s top anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had also charged his wife in the case.
Court jails Pakistani cricket legend and former PM Imran Khan for 10 years ahead of elections
In May last year, the first time Khan was arrested, his supporters were accused of rioting and ransacking military installations, including a high ranking general’s home. Khan denies his supporters were part of the mobs. He called on his supporters to make sure they came out in numbers to vote for candidates backed by him.
India’s Modi opens controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya in grand event ahead of elections
Millions of Indians watched the ceremony on television, with news channels running non-stop coverage of the event, portrayed as a religious spectacle.
US’ CIA uncovers how Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch planned and carried out Iran blasts
ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombings, saying two operatives wearing explosive suicide belts staged the attack during a memorial service for Qassem Soleimani, a senior military commander assassinated in Iraq in a 2020 US drone strike.
Japan quake: 3,000 crew of army firefighters and police rescuers rush to reach survivors
Authorities have confirmed 48 deaths so far, all in Ishikawa prefecture, NHK reported. Many of those are in Wajima, another hard-hit city on the remote northern tip of the Noto Peninsula.
South Korean opposition leader Jae-myung stabbed in the neck by knife-wielding attacker
President Yoon Suk Yeol expressed deep concern about Lee’s health and ordered authorities to investigate the attack, saying such violence would not be tolerated, according to Yoon’s office.
Japan Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warning as powerful earthquake strikes central region
More strong quakes in the area, where seismic activity has been simmering for more than three years, could occur over coming days, JMA official Toshihiro Shimoyama said. In comments to the press shortly after the quake struck, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also warned residents to prepare for more disasters.
How Indian state-funded Research and Analysis Wing criminal gang has infiltrated US, Canada and Europe
ikh diaspora activists have alleged Indian government involvement in the mysterious deaths of other dissidents, including, most recently, a 35-year-old British citizen named Avtar Singh Khanda, who died this year in what his family claims to be a case of poisoning.
