About 20 percent of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran and the US are trading threats.
About 20 percent of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran and the US are trading threats.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday night as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, leaving widespread damage, flooding and power outages across the northern Gulf Coast.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, partially collapsing the San Juan Bautista cathedral in Penonomé and injuring at least 27 people, authorities said.
Authorities closed six Delhi metro stations and restricted traffic on more than 20 stretches on Monday as opposition parties marched to the Supreme Court over a controversial revision of voter lists.
The federal government imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, citing the provincial government’s alleged disengagement from counterterrorism efforts. PTI has rejected the move.
Flights in and out of Riyadh have been suspended after repeated strikes on King Khalid International Airport, which Saudi authorities say killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 300.
Nana Patekar, the veteran actor whose career spanned nearly five decades, died on Thursday at the age of 75.
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, where a laboratory technician died this month, prompting quarantine measures and fears of pneumonic plague.
President Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
The US Coast Guard suspended its search off Nantucket on Sunday evening for a medical transport jet that went missing on a flight from Bermuda to Boston, with all six people aboard presumed dead.