20+ hour, 11+ min ago   (296+ words) Companies have traditionally imported goods from Asia through Gulf countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Now, some are trying a more direct approach. “The latest tensions in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as well as those…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (522+ words) Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho were convicted of inciting subversion earlier this year under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lee and Chow, who pleaded not guilty, received prison terms of 7 years, and 7 years and 3 months. Ho was given…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (338+ words) Moldovan police said a Russian drone crashed on Tuesday in a sunflower field on the outskirts of a village in the district of Riscani, which caused four fires to break out but no injuries. Government spokesperson Dumitru Ciorici said on…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (685+ words) “The era of gentle diplomatic pleasantries and calculated silence, which has been misinterpreted as tacit consent, has come to an end,” protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul, a media mogul and political activist, told the crowd while reading from an open letter…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (104+ words) Official media_ Algeria severs diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates News-Times The statement read on state television gave no single or specific reason for the decision but cited alleged “provocative and hostile actions” by the Gulf state and “regrettable and…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (284+ words) The South Kivu provincial government said in a press release that 19 girls and seven boys were killed, adding that the death toll could rise. The spokesperson for rebel M23 group that controls the city, Lawrence Kanyuka, said earlier that 24 students were…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (770+ words) Unemployed and $1,300 in debt, he can no longer afford the bus fare from his suburb or the books he needs to keep studying — even at a tuition-free university that has helped generations of Argentines climb into the middle class. He's…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (524+ words) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar travelled to Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital, for the occasion that asserts a shift in Slovenia's policy toward Israel under the current right-wing Prime Minister Janez Jansa. Saar called the embassy opening a “historic day” after a…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (487+ words) Delays continued for a second day Wednesday, rippling across 15 U.K. airports and beyond as airlines and airports worked to clear a huge backlog of canceled and delayed flights. The problems stranded passengers for hours on airport runways and in terminals. Flight…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (435+ words) Indonesia has been plagued by forest and land fires for decades but an intensifying El Nino pattern and a prolonged dry season made the impact of the fires especially dire this year. Toxic haze and smoke have spread far beyond…...