Kythira (Greece) (TIP): Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the water off a Greek island on October 6 as the death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats rose to 21, with many missing. The boats went down hundreds of miles apart, in one case prompting a dramatic overnight rescue effort, as residents and firefighters pulled shipwrecked migrants to safety up steep cliffs. The coast guard on the eastern island of Lesbos said 16 bodies of young African women and one young man were recovered there after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank. – AP
Business & Economics
Bitcoin jumps above $50,000 for first time since May
HONG KONG (TIP): Bitcoin broke back above $50,000 on Monday for the first time in three months as investors piled back into the cryptocurrency on bargain-buying. The unit climbed around two percent to $50,249.15, its […]
Sports News
‘No Plan B’: Japan’s sponsors shelve ads as mood sours over Olympics
Tokyo (TIP): Japan’s Olympic sponsors are scaling back advertising campaigns and delaying marketing events for this year’s Summer Games, concerned that public sentiment toward the event is souring amid a fresh wave of COVID-19. Sponsors […]
India
JAWANS ARE FAMILY, SAYS MODI AS HE CELEBRATES DIWALI WITH LOC TROOPS
SRINAGAR (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Oct 19 (Thursday) celebrated Diwali with troops posted along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gurez sector and lauded the soldiers for their penance and sacrifice saying he considered them his family. […]
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