12m ago Iran says cargo ship sinks after hitting naval mine in Strait of Hormuz Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that a cargo ship had sunk after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz. It is the first time Iran has reported a ship sinking after hitting a mine during…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have morphed over the last decade from being a little-known group in northwest Yemen, to Iran’s most potent ally in the region and a central opponent of the United States and its allies across the Middle East. While Iran’s other proxy forces have been depleted in recent years, the Houthis have taken…
Two paintings by impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen from a museum in southern France and later discovered hidden behind a wall, have sustained slight damage, prosecutors said on Monday. In September, thieves broke into the museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer and escaped with two works by Renoir, abandoning two others as they fled. The value of all…
North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding to a recent streak of weapons demonstrations that has heightened tensions during a prolonged freeze in diplomacy. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from an area around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang,…
At least 12 people, including one American, were killed and 309 others injured in a strike Saturday on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, according to Saudi officials. Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said those killed included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshis and one person each from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Sudan. Those injured…
A bear killed a man and seriously maimed a woman in their home in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, authorities said Thursday, warning that sightings of the animals have skyrocketed across the country this year. The man in his 40s and the woman in her 50s were attacked on Wednesday night in the Bayanzurkh district…
At least 30 people were killed Thursday when a Russian guided bomb slammed into a street near two packed city buses in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, according to officials. At least 18 more people were wounded in the attack, the Donetsk region’s governor said. “There is no doubt that Russia is cynically targeting civilians,” Oleksandr Honcharenko,…
A statement by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that recognized three years since Hamas’ “horrific” attack on Israel — and extensively criticized Israel’s “ongoing genocide” in the Gaza Strip — has drawn fury from some Democrats. Mamdani is a longstanding and vehement critic of Israel’s actions during its war with Hamas in Gaza, and…
The FBI fears the alleged Chinese agent arrested at LAX on Sunday may try to flee the country if released after her court hearing on Wednesday, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Investigators claim California realtor Wanying Zhang owned a business in China, regularly has money deposited in a Chinese bank account and has parents,…
U.S. forces on Okinawa were barred from drinking alcohol for 48 hours on Wednesday and were put under a 30-day curfew in the wake of the murder of a local woman allegedly committed by an American Marine. The case has triggered outrage on the Japanese island, where any crimes involving U.S. forces have long inflamed…
