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‘s tenacious battle against the $36,000 resistance mark has captured the attention of investors and analysts alike, with the cryptocurrency exhibiting marginal gains of 0.02% to position itself at $34,730 on Saturday.

Pakistan airbase attack LIVE: Six militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali, Punjab on Saturday morning. According to the Reuters news agency, three militants were killed before they entered the base and the other three had been cornered.

Track our LIVE coverage of the natural disaster here Notably, the mountainous country is often hit by tremors, with the last major incident occurring in 2015 and killing 9,000 people. Local historical sites and temples were destroyed in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, besides entire towns and over a million houses being razed to the ground, Reuters reported. The event cost the Nepal economy $6 billion, it added.

US Federal Reserve may be done hiking interest rates. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 1.18%. The MSCI index was up 5.3% for the week, also the biggest weekly percentage increase since November 2022.

Apple fell three per cent on Friday after it disappointed Wall Street with a forecast that indicated growth will stay subdued in the quarter where the holiday season usually drives its strongest sales.

(Reuters) — Bank of America's mobile app flashed a message on Friday that said customers could be facing temporary delays in depositing funds into their accounts after a technical glitch impacted multiple financial institutions.

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Investing.com — Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) has posted better-than-anticipated revenue in the third quarter, although the cloud services provider said it faces a «challenging» business enviornment.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday will break weeks of silence since war broke out between Hamas and Israel, in a speech that could impact the region as the Gaza conflict rages. After Hamas militants launched an unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon's southern border has seen escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, mainly between Israel and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group, stoking fears of a broader conflagration. The cross-border attacks heated up Thursday, as Israel responded with a «broad assault» after Hezbollah attacked 19 Israeli positions simultaneously, according to the group. Rockets also hit the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona near the border in a barrage claimed by the Lebanese section of Hamas's armed wing. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned that «the region is like a powder keg» and that «anything is possible» if Israel does not stop attacking Gaza. US President Joe Biden has sent two aircraft carrier groups to the eastern Mediterranean and warned Hezbollah and others to stay out of the conflict. «We've got significant national security interests at play here,» US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. «I don't believe we've seen any indication yet specifically that Hezbollah is ready to go in full force.

Vladimir Putin said on Friday that some Western weapons supplied to Ukraine were finding their way to the Middle East through the illegal arms market and being sold to the Taliban. «Now they say: weapons are getting into the Middle East from Ukraine. Well of course they are because they are being sold,» Putin said.

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Reuters as saying. The blast took place in Tank Adda in the city near a police van, Geo TV reported on Friday. According to the report, those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, while some of them remain critical.

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US Federal Reserve left policy rates unchanged on Wednesday, November 1, at a 22-year high level of 5.25-5.50 per cent. The US weekly jobless claims data on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, according to a Reuters report. "Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ended October 28.

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The S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 58.4 last month from September's 61.0. A Reuters poll forecast the data point at 60.5.

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weekly rise in a year on Friday, while bonds rallied and the dollar was on the back foot as investors cheered a pause in U.S. interest rate hikes. U.S.