‘Frankly stupid’: Fund manager weighs in on reignited meme stock frenzy as GameStop soars
Fund manager Cole Smead has described the meme stock craze as "frankly stupid," as day traders once again pile into GameStop and AMC.
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GameStop short sellers lost almost $1 billion in Monday's monster rally
The jaw-dropping rally in GameStop on Monday caused losses approaching $1billion for short sellers, according to data from S3 Partners.
Reports of army killing of villagers in Myanmar supported by photos and harrowing tale of a survivor
BANGKOK (AP) — Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar were supported Monday in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings.
Can Pakistan’s Imran Khan and army patch up, a year after violent clashes?
Both sides have so far rejected concessions, but many analysts say this rupture is untenable and a compromise is needed.
India unveils monument to dead from brutal World War II battle
KOHIMA, India/BANGKOK -- Eighty years ago in northeastern India, the Imperial Japanese Army fought what is widely seen as one of the most reckless campaigns of World War II. This week, officials gathered in a ceremony to mark the completion of a memorial to those who died in the offensive's bloody Battle of Kohima.
Two mango seasons: A long wait for Pakistan families hit by May 9 violence
As the Supreme Court debates the convictions of 85 people, families wait for their loved ones.
Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar’s civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military
BANGKOK (AP) — Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war.
Gunmen kill 7 barbers in Pakistan’s volatile Baluchistan province
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Attackers fatally shot seven barbers before dawn Thursday in a home in a volatile province in southwestern Pakistan, police and a government official said.