Hezbollah transporting chemical weapons to Lebanon with help of Iran and North Korea, report claims
Hezbollah has transported hundreds of missiles with a chemical payload to a warehouse near the Lebanese-Syrian border. “Despite the severe unrest, humanitarian crises and the unraveling of the Lebanese state, Hezbollah continues to focus its resources on acquiring and developing game-changing military capabilities that it intends to deploy against Israel, directly funded by Iran,” retired […]
Indonesia quake death toll rises to 268; 151 still missing
The death toll from the earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java leapt to 268 on Tuesday as more bodies were found beneath collapsed buildings, and 151 people are still missing, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Agency head Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians only goes by one name, told reporters that another 1,083 […]
Harris dodges when asked if she’ll go to Georgia to campaign for Warnock
Post Content Vice President Kamala Harris would not say whether she will go to Georgia to campaign in the runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP candidate Herschel Walker. “I haven’t made any decision yet,” Harris said Tuesday, when asked by a reporter during an international trip to Malaysia if she and President Biden would […]
Brindisi, il cadavere di una donna ritrovato in una cella frigorifera
Read More Il cadavere di una donna è stato ritrovato in una cella frigorifera a Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi). La scoperta è stata fatta dai carabinieri in un terreno alla periferia della cittadina. (notizia in aggiornamento)
Duplicity and destitution: Sierra Leone’s artisanal diamonds fail to benefit local communities
Read More Every day, 46-year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits that pockmark the landscape of Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone. If he is lucky, he will dig for up to 10 hours in knee-deep mud to receive two or three US dollars at […]
Biden to once again ditch DC for Thanksgiving in Nantucket
Post Content President Biden and his family will leave Washington, D.C. and spend Thanksgiving at Nantucket, a wealthy resort island in Massachusetts. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are making the trip from the White House on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated. It will be the second Thanksgiving in a row the […]
South Korean President Seeks Stronger Ties With Saudi Arabia on Energy, Defense
Read More The president of South Korea on Monday reaffirmed his nation’s commitment to bolstering ties with Saudi Arabia in energy, defense, and infrastructure, following his meeting with the country’s crown prince the previous week. President Yoon Suk-yeol wrote in a letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman voicing his government’s support for the […]
Blinken says immunity for bin Salman does not speak to ‘current status’ in US-Saudi relations: ‘Legal matter’
Post Content Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday defended the administration’s decision to grant immunity for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but said the opinion based on “long-standing legal practice” does not reflect the “current status” of U.S.-Saudi relations. It was a “legal matter,” Blinken told reporters from Qatar. The secretary of state said […]
Arizona county delays certification of election results in ‘political statement’
Post Content The Board of Supervisors in Mohave County, Arizona moved to delay certification of the midterm election results on Monday in protest of voting issues in Maricopa County, becoming the second county to do so. In a split vote, board members decided to wait until the Nov. 28 deadline to certify the election results […]
Indonesian Rescuers Search Through Rubble of Quake; 268 Dead
Read More CIANJUR, Indonesia—Indonesian rescuers used jackhammers, circular saws, and sometimes their bare hands Tuesday to shift the rubble of flattened buildings as they searched for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 268 people. With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable, and more than 1,000 people injured in the […]