1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (630+ words) The Houthis’ capture of a key port city and an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, in recent days has alarmed markets and Yemeni civilians who fear a return to devastating…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (568+ words) The events were a deadly reminder of the underlying challenge to global shipping even as attention turns to a new threat, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen now perched on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea. State-run IRNA…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (635+ words) (The Hill) – The Trump administration is pledging to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Americans who the White House says were overcharged for ObamaCare coverage. In a recorded message posted to the White House X account Thursday, President Trump alleged…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (342+ words) In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, but risen sharply in neighboring North Kivu and Haut-Uele, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said at a weekly briefing. According to the…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (321+ words) U.S. stock futures fell. Futures for the S&P 500 dropped 0.5%, Dow futures slipped 0.2% and futures for the Nasdaq composite fell 1.3%. A report showed that inflation in the U.S. picked up at the wholesale level in August after cooling earlier in the summer....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (772+ words) Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her home. “What did you see? What did you…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (510+ words) At the end of last month, Russia launched a week of nighttime and daylight attacks on Kyiv in its heaviest sustained bombardment of the Ukrainian capital since its invasion began more than four years ago. The relentless missile and drone…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (395+ words) Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented the recently restored “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” that were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppio hill near the Colosseum. The works are opening…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (524+ words) A wave of Houthi attacks on oil facilities and utilities in Saudi Arabia’s southern region has escalated renewed fighting between an important U.S. ally and Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. In early European trading, Germany’s DAX declined 0.3% to 25,922.44 and the CAC…...

1+ week, 44+ min ago   (921+ words) Lebanon ’s Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes on a southern village have killed 12 people, including two children. Meanwhile, Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim to have shot down a Saudi reconnaissance plane. And seven crew members of a Saudi-owned tanker struck last…...