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High-ranking US Democratic senator indicted for corruption

NEW YORK: Federal prosecutors charged powerful US Senator Robert Menendez on Friday with bribery and extortion,...

Published 23 Sep, 2023 11:22am

World

Biden’s son Hunter indicted on gun charges

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was indicted Thursday for illegally buying a gun when he was using...

Published 15 Sep, 2023 06:32am

World

Trump to be booked at infamous Atlanta jail

ATLANTA: Unsafe. Unsanitary. Teeming with insects. When Donald Trump surrenders on Thursday to face charges he tried...

Published 23 Aug, 2023 11:24am

World

Trump faces federal charges in classified documents case, adding to legal woes

WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump faces a new legal challenge - this time from the government he used to...

Published 09 Jun, 2023 03:46pm

World

US document leak suspect destroyed evidence, researched mass shootings

A US Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified military documents has a history of making violent...

Published 27 Apr, 2023 09:44am

World

US closes its airspace to Russia as Ukrainian cities brace for attacks

WASHINGTON/KYIV: The United States closed its airspace to Russian planes as the Russian military attempted to...

Published 02 Mar, 2022 11:53am

World

US Navy engineer admits trying to sell nuclear sub secrets

WASHINGTON: A US Navy engineer admitted in federal court on Monday that he tried to sell secrets about nuclear...

Published 15 Feb, 2022 11:01am

World

UN agency says gaps in Belarus flight rerouting probe

MONTREAL: The UN aviation agency on Monday extended its investigation into a bomb warning aboard a Ryanair flight...

Published 01 Feb, 2022 10:47am

World

False bomb threat on diverted Ryanair jet 'deliberate': UN report

MONTREAL: A bomb warning aboard a Ryanair flight last May, which saw the aircraft rerouted to Belarus where a...

Published 28 Jan, 2022 11:15am

World

US Justice Dept to pay $130mn to Parkland victims' families over FBI blunder

MIAMI: The US Justice Department is expected to pay $130 million to the families of victims of the 2018 Parkland...

Published 23 Nov, 2021 09:32am

World

US Supreme Court weighs FBI surveillance of mosque

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case involving national security and the claims of...

Published 09 Nov, 2021 02:37pm

World

Fugitive businessman close to Venezuela's Maduro extradited to US

MIAMI: A fugitive businessman accused of acting as a money launderer for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's ...

Published 17 Oct, 2021 10:24am

World

Justice Dept warns over threats to US schools

WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a crackdown Monday on threats against schools and teachers...

Published 05 Oct, 2021 10:04am

Business & Finance

US sues to block American Airlines-JetBlue alliance

Attorneys general in six states and the District of Columbia joined the lawsuit over the Northeast Alliance

Published 22 Sep, 2021 10:43am

World

Ex-Justice Dept head described Trump's election pressure campaign: senator

WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump mounted an intense pressure campaign on the US Justice Department to...

Published 09 Aug, 2021 05:05am

World

US seizes Iranian state news websites

US action came as Washington seeks to restore the 2015 agreement between Tehran and six major countries to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions

Updated 23 Jun, 2021 01:27pm

World

Trump officials seized Apple data of 2 Democratic lawmakers: NY Times

Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi also called for an investigation, describing the New York Times report as "harrowing."

Published 11 Jun, 2021 09:58am

World

US recovers over half of ransom paid to pipeline hackers

After the JBS attack, last week US President Joe Biden said he was "looking closely" at possible retaliation over the cyberattacks.

Published 08 Jun, 2021 10:40am

World

Federal hate crime charges set for killers of Black jogger in US

Initially Arbery's death appeared to have been covered up by local investigators, and the three men were not arrested or charged.

Published 29 Apr, 2021 10:49am

World

Minneapolis police face probe after Chauvin trial

He said the probe will examine whether the police systematically engaged in the use of excessive force, including during legal protests.

Published 22 Apr, 2021 10:12am

Technology

Microsoft defends against new threat to Exchange

US Justice Department officials on Tuesday announced that, with backing from a court, they purged "malicious web shells" hackers had planted in hundreds of computers running Exchange Server software.

Published 14 Apr, 2021 10:56am

World

US Justice Department seeks to modify oversight for Caribbean refinery

The modification to the consent decree is unrelated to the EPA's revocation of an expansion permit for the refinery last month, the agency said.

Published 09 Apr, 2021 09:47am

World

US couple arrested in plan to join IS in Yemen

"The threat of terrorism at home and abroad remains," said Assistant Attorney General John Demers.

Published 02 Apr, 2021 09:38am

Markets

Swiss bank Rahn+Bodmer admits to tax evasion in US probe

Rahn+Bodmer is accused of helping clients in the United States conceal assets and money and file false returns to evade taxes between 2004 and 2012.

Published 12 Mar, 2021 10:32am

World

FBI's Chris Wray accuses Capitol Hill attackers of domestic terrorism

"I was appalled that you, our country's elected leaders, were victimized right here in these very halls," Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"That siege was criminal behavior, pure and simple. It's behavior that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism."

Published 02 Mar, 2021 08:58pm

World

Biden's attorney general pick vows to prosecute Capitol attackers

Garland, 68, worked in the Justice Department before becoming a judge nearly 24 years ago.

Published 21 Feb, 2021 11:00am

World

US charges North Korean hackers in $1.3bn theft scheme

They allegedly robbed digital currency exchanges in Slovenia and Indonesia and extorted a New York exchange of $11.8 million.

Published 18 Feb, 2021 10:35am

Technology

US Justice Department asks court to put government's TikTok appeal on hold

Under former President Donald Trump, the US Commerce Department sought to ban Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google app stores from offering TikTok.

Published 11 Feb, 2021 09:45am

World

Trump refuses to testify in 'unconstitutional' impeachment trial

The Justice Department has suggested they could build a case for seditious conspiracy by some Trump-supporting extreme right groups in the attack.

Published 05 Feb, 2021 10:26am

World

Biden to end use of private prisons for US federal inmates

It became a big and profitable business, with the prison companies publicly traded on stock exchanges.

Published 27 Jan, 2021 11:30am

Forex
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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 17	278.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 17	278.10
USD to Japanese Yen / May 17	155.67
USD to Swiss Franc / May 17	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 17	1.27
Euro to USD / May 17	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 17	5303.27
India Sensex / May 17	73917.03
Tokyo Nikkei / May 17	38787.38
Nasdaq / May 17	16685.97
Hang Seng / May 17	19535.61
FTSE 100 / May 17	8420.26
Dow Jones / May 17	40003.59
Germany DAX 30 / May 17	18704.42

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 17	79.59
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 17	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 17	210562
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 17	2386.18
Cotton US¢/pound / May 17	76.29
Petrol/Litre / May 19	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 19 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 19 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 19 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 19 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 19 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 19 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 19 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 19 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 19 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 19 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 19 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 19 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 19 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 19 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 19 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 19 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 19 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 19 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 19 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 19 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 19 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 19 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 19 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 19 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 19 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 19 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 19 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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