The price of Bitcoin dove below $33,000 on Monday, marking its lowest in almost 10 months, as the major selloff in global markets has continued to affect cryptocurrencies negatively.

Bitcoin saw its price sinking to $32,650 at 1058GMT, according to data on Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency market by trade volume.

This marked the lowest level for Bitcoin since July 23, 2021 when it fell to as low as $32,040.

Bitcoin, the world's biggest crypto by market cap, had lost more than half of its value last year, sinking to $29,303 on July 20.

The current market selloff came after the US Federal Reserve announced a 50-basis-point rate hike last week and signaled more for coming meetings.

The Fed's hawkish stance and aggressive monetary tightening have since led to pessimism among investors and a panic selling environment in global markets.

US stock market futures were down on Monday, pointing to possibly another losing session, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq futures down more than 2% apiece at 1120GMT./aa

Nearly 300 Somali refugee children are being cared for in the Ugandan capital Kampala at an orphanage established decades ago by Muslim families, a rarity in the East African country.

Established in 1974, the Kabowa Hidayat Primary School and Orphanage is a home and educational institution for 700 children, nearly 300 of whom are from Somalia.

Christian and church-affiliated groups are known to run the most well-organized orphanages in the country, with those managed by the Muslim community and mosques generally thought to be inadequate and neglected.

Despite the fact that Somalia shares no borders with Uganda, a large number of Somali children came to the country as domestic workers. They are not all orphans, but they have no parents in Uganda.

Though their stories on how they ended up in the orphanage differ, their experiences before leaving their home country have left them with deep and hard-to-erase mental scars.

According to UNICEF, there are 900,000 refugee children in Uganda. In addition to being refugees, children in this country struggle to cope with the trauma of forced displacement, separation from loved ones, and physical and sexual violence./aa

Miguel Gandert doesn’t know that his family’s 19th century log home is a . has been burnt by new Mexico wildfires, but they fear the flames could destroy the Indo-Hispano mountain culture much older than the United States.

wildfire is the biggest now United States of america And the Sangre de Cristo threatens a string of villages high up in the mountains where Gandert can trace roots european And Mexican settlers as well as Native Americans. The fire has burnt down several houses in the district. mora canyons, and violent winds on Sunday threatened adobe mud-brick farm houses, churches, chapels and water mills in the early 19th century.

“It is almost a form of cultural genocide that is ongoing and fire is the enemy,” said Gandert, a retired university student. new Mexico Professor who spent his childhood summers fishing and helping out on his family’s farm in the village of Mora. Some residents have been in the family new Mexico from the late 17th century, and over half mora Police said the county, population 4,500, stopped to guard homes.

Holman and . working class families in communities of cleveland Gabriel Melendez, born in Mora, said he used his own bulldozers and machinery to put out the fire, along with firefighters. They are motivated by a love of “querencia” or place, based on a religious sensibility for the land for which they pray. Catholic Melendez said, the churches and chapels known as “mordas”.

“You’re losing an inheritance, you’re losing the value of these homes,” said 69-year-old retired Melendez. American Study professor whose nephew stayed at Holman. “People will rebuild, and they will work to rebuild the fabric of this torn culture, but it’s a huge challenge.” Patricia Marie Perea said those who have been evacuated are devastated, whose relatives are gone San Miguel County to Albuquerque.

“My family has three hundred years of pedigree,” said Perea, an assistant professor in the Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico. “It all makes it difficult, if not impossible, to quit.”/agencies

The G7 countries on Sunday pledged to ban imports of Russian oil in another sanction against Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

"We commit to phase out our dependency on Russian energy, including by phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil," said a written statement by the leaders of the Group of Seven countries after an online meeting, which was also joined by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The actions of the Russian president in Ukraine bring shame on both Russia and the historic sacrifices of its people, according to the leaders' statement.

Aiming for Russia’s isolation across all sectors of its economy, the G7 countries said they will also take measures to "prohibit or otherwise prevent the provision of key services on which Russia depends."

They reiterated their commitment to continue actions against Russian banks connected to the global economy and systemically critical to the Russian financial system.

"We will continue our efforts to fight off the Russian regime’s attempts to spread its propaganda. Respectable private companies should not provide revenue to the Russian regime or to its affiliates feeding the Russian war machine," the statement said.

"We will continue and elevate our campaign against the financial elites and family members, who support President (Vladimir) Putin in his war effort and squander the resources of the Russian people. Consistent with our national authorities, we will impose sanctions on additional individuals," it added.

The leaders also reiterated their condemnation of Russia's attacks on Ukraine, which started on Feb 24, and have left 3,309 civilians dead and 3,493 others injured, according to UN estimates. The true toll is feared to be much higher.

The seven members (UK, US, Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy, plus the EU) are all bound by shared values as open, democratic, and outward-looking societies, according to the G7's website./aa

Nearly 1,900 flamingo chicks hatched in Turkiye’s Lake Tuz last year, according to official data compiled by Anadolu Agency.

Lake Tuz, the second-largest lake in Turkiye, is an important wetland where migratory flamingos from around the world incubate.

It is also a natural protected area that is home to a variety of plants and birds, as well as insects and mammals.

According to data by the Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Ministry, the flamingo population breeding in Turkiye constitutes nearly 34% of the entire flamingo population in Europe.

France, Spain, and Turkiye host the largest flamingo populations in Europe.

Nearly 2,000 flamingos bred and 1,877 flamingo chicks hatched in Lake Tuz last year, and 14,604 adult flamingos were recorded in the area in a single day, showed the official figures compiled on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day, marked annually on May 14.

Turkiye’s Directorate-General for Preservation of Natural Heritage carries out research and fieldwork to learn more about flamingos and to protect endangered species.

As flamingos in Turkiye are labeled “partially migratory species,” some of them stay in the country throughout the year while others migrate to Mediterranean countries.

Generally found in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Central Anatolian regions of Turkiye, flamingos are also seen in the Black Sea and Marmara regions in small numbers.

Turkiye’s Lake Tuz and Gediz Delta in the country's west are among the best-known breeding areas for flamingos.

The special environmental protection area in Lake Tuz, which hosts the largest natural breeding colony of flamingos in the world, is home to many bird species for a breeding, wintering, and stopover area.

The western part of the lake, in particular, is known as an important habitat for birds. The flamingo chicks stay in Lake Tuz until they learn how to fly and they leave their nests in the autumn./aa

After a seven-year hiatus, a 16th-century Armenian church that suffered damage by terrorists before restoration by the Turkish government reopened for worship services on Sunday.

The first service in the Surp Giragos Armenian Church was officiated by Sahak Mashalian, the Turkish Armenian patriarch.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mashalian said that people from Istanbul and all over Turkish Anatolia came to Diyarbakir for the service.

"We performed our prayer in this beautiful, historic place. A truly impressive environment," he said.

“This place is actually a monument to the multi-colored, multi-faith, and multi-denominational past of this city.”

He added: “I hope this diversity will be understood as a treasure, and we will all live together in this country in happiness and peace under this flag.”

Touching on the multiyear, $2.14 million restoration of two local churches, Mashalian praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for spearheading the effort, saying: "I specially thank our president for his encouragement. He personally took care of the renovation of this church and gave the necessary instructions."

He said that there are other churches in the region that need restoration, adding: "With their restoration, this region can really turn into a world-famous tourist hub."

Talin Gokdemir, who traveled from Istanbul for the service, said: "We’re very happy that this church has reopened in Diyarbakir. We held a ritual here and prayed for everyone's health and happiness."

Ahead of Sunday’s services, Turkish officials on Saturday had officially reopened the church, mentioning the “excitement” over it opening its doors once again./aa