Turkey’s central bank said on Friday it sold $2.12 billion during its direct market intervention on Dec. 17 to support the lira, bringing to $7.278 billion the total value of its efforts last month. In total the central bank announced direct intervention on five occasions in December. The central bank also sold a total of مزید پڑھیں

Kazakhstan’s president said on Friday he had ordered his forces to shoot-to-kill to deal with disturbances from those he called bandits and terrorists, a day after Russia sent troops to put down a countrywide uprising. Security forces appeared to be in control of the streets of the main city Almaty on Friday morning but gunfire مزید پڑھیں

The Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that the medical isolation period for coronavirus-infected patients has been shortened to seven days if they are fully vaccinated. The ministry briefed that following this recovery period, the immunity status on the Tawakkalna application will be updated, Saudi Gazette reported on Thursday. According to the ministry, مزید پڑھیں

Asian financial hub Hong Kong banned flights from eight nations on Wednesday as part of strict new virus curbs, with Omicron outbreaks spiralling out of control from Europe to the United States. The new coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly across continents, leaving governments rushing to roll out vaccine boosters and bolster healthcare systems as infection مزید پڑھیں

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured. Police used tear gas and stun grenades late on Tuesday to drive hundreds of protesters out of the main square in Almaty, مزید پڑھیں

North Korea on Wednesday fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea in the first such test of the new year, South Korea and Japan said. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the missile was fired eastward this morning from a land-based platform, Yonhap News Agency reported. “For additional information, the intelligence authorities مزید پڑھیں

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday discussed Russia’s military buildup along Ukraine’s border with the Bucharest Nine group of NATO allies, the State Department said in statement. Blinken “stressed the U.S. commitment to continued close consultation and coordination with all of our Transatlantic Allies and partners as we work toward de-escalation through deterrence, مزید پڑھیں

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has scheduled a special meeting of allied ambassadors and top Russian officials for next week as both sides seek dialogue to prevent open conflict over Ukraine, a NATO official said on Tuesday. Worried about Russia’s military build-up along Ukraine’s border, the Western military alliance has been seeking a meeting of the مزید پڑھیں

Daily coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia have climbed above 1,000 for the first time since August, while daily infections in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) haven crossed the 2,500-level. Authorities in the two Gulf Arab states did not break down the cases by COVID-19 variant. Both countries confirmed their first known case of the Omicron مزید پڑھیں

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, less than two months after being reinstated as part of a political agreement with the military. In a televised speech, he said a roundtable discussion was needed to come to a new agreement for Sudan’s transition to democracy. The announcement came in the wake مزید پڑھیں