2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (886+ words) “We gotta take care of business this November and then we’ll worry about what comes next,” he said. Vance was front and center Thursday night as he and President Donald Trump urged Republicans to turn out for fall elections that…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (403+ words) Mokha is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a waterway that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and through which about 12% of the world’s goods are typically shipped. The Bab el-Mandeb's importance to global oil…...

3+ day, 11+ 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…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (670+ words) Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces had launched dozens of airstrikes overnight across four Yemeni provinces, after rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia ignited fires at several oil facilities and wounded dozens of people. Separately, Iranian state…...

3+ day, 19+ 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…...

4+ day, 10+ min ago   (527+ words) Vucic, who cannot run for another presidential term, has said he plans to run for prime minister instead. He issued a decree dissolving the 250-member Parliament and paving the way for the vote. He said the elections were necessary because…...

4+ day, 59+ min ago   (745+ words) His office said in a statement that Tung passed away peacefully in the presence of his family members. Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday that he died of an unspecified illness. Tung, a shipping tycoon, had little political experience…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (482+ words) Wong told Parliament on Tuesday that under a revised salary framework, the benchmark annual pay for a minister at the lowest grade will rise to 1.8 million Singapore dollars ($1.42 million), from 1.1 million Singapore dollars ($868,330). The prime minister’s benchmark salary will jump…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (319+ words) The group, known as BAPS, is a worldwide religious and civic organization within the Swaminarayan sect, a branch of Hinduism. It has been holding celebrations to mark the inauguration of a traditional Hindu stone temple in the French capital. In…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (262+ words) Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn't immediately schedule Lam's sentencing hearing in Washington. Lam…...