17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (924+ words) Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Sept. 11, opening a new front at a vital global shipping chokepoint as a former Pentagon official warned Sunday the militants had entered a “kill box.” “With Perim, they have…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (583+ words) Swedes head to the polls Sunday as Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s center-right party is slightly behind the center-left Social Democratic Party led by Sweden’s former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, with the election dominated by fears of mass migration, crime and…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (157+ words) A passenger ship carrying 240 people vanished from contact in the Java Sea on Sunday local time, triggering an urgent search as Indonesian crews raced to locate the vessel. Authorities said the vessel was last tracked roughly 92 miles from a pier…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (924+ words) Iran-backed Houthi forces seized Yemen’s strategic port city of Mocha on Thursday and pushed toward positions overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, opening a potentially dangerous new front for global trade as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains severely constrained....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (326+ words) A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Norway for the king’s state funeral was “almost hit” by a drone as it prepared to take off from Moldova on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (220+ words) A Spanish opposition leader branded the country’s Socialist prime minister a traitor over his government’s handling of the influx of migrants in a North African enclave. Santiago Abascal, leader of the Vox party, spoke during a parliamentary session when he…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (604+ words) Regional Gov. Dmitry Artyukhov said Russian air defenses repelled the attack but falling drone debris caused a fire at an industrial site. He did not identify the facility, and the extent of the damage was still being assessed, Reuters reported…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (244+ words) U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced on Tuesday that the U.S. sank another vessel characterized as a “floating refueling station” linked to drug trafficking efforts. “On September 8, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM) forces successfully interdicted a floating…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1111+ words) The United Kingdom unveiled sweeping new measures targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, triggering an immediate diplomatic rupture with Israel and a sharp warning from a senior Trump administration official. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Tuesday,…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (325+ words) The State Department said Tuesday it is aware of approximately 70 Americans who remain unaccounted for in the Nepal-China border region following last month’s catastrophic flooding, while 18 Americans have now made it to safety. “We extend our deepest sympathy to all…...