• 14 million children did not receive vaccines in 2024, UN reports

    14 million children did not receive vaccines in 2024, UN reports

    Jul 15, 2025 05:55 PM EST

    ... cough. The data showed that nine countries accounted for 52% of all children who missed out on immunizations entirely: Nigeria, India, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Angola. WHO and UNICEF said coverage against measles rose slightly, with 76% of children worldwide receiving both vaccine doses. But experts say ...

  • WATCH: Mike Waltz says he wants to make UN 'great again' as Democrats grill him on Signal chat

    WATCH: Mike Waltz says he wants to make UN 'great again' as Democrats grill him on Signal chat

    Jul 15, 2025 02:21 PM EST

    ... chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a private text chain on an unclassified messaging app that was used to discuss planning for strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen. “We both know Signal is not an appropriate and secure means of communicating highly sensitive information,” said Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware. He added ...

  • News Wrap: Man killed after opening fire on Border Patrol facility in Texas

    News Wrap: Man killed after opening fire on Border Patrol facility in Texas

    Jul 07, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    Amna Nawaz: Moscow has recently stepped its attacks against civilians. Ukrainian leaders say Russia has fired more than 2000 drones, missiles and glide bombs, injuring scores of people in population centers in the past week. Houthi rebels in Yemen say that a bulk carrier they attacked on Sunday has sunk ...

  • Israel launches strikes against Houthi rebels after attack on a Liberian bulk carrier in the Red Sea

    Israel launches strikes against Houthi rebels after attack on a Liberian bulk carrier in the Red Sea

    Jul 07, 2025 02:06 PM EST

    ... The attack on the Magic Seas, a bulk carrier heading north to Egypt's Suez Canal, happened about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Hodeida, Yemen, which is held by the Houthis. The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, or UKMTO, center first said that an armed security ...

  • Crew abandons Liberian-flagged ship attacked in the Red Sea as it took on water, UK military says

    Crew abandons Liberian-flagged ship attacked in the Red Sea as it took on water, UK military says

    Jul 06, 2025 06:04 PM EST

    ... military said it intercepted. Shipping through the Red Sea, while still lower than normal, has increased in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a wider, decadelong war in Yemen between the Houthis and the country’s exiled government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, remains in a stalemate. The Yemeni Coast Guard, which ...

  • How Iran could respond to U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites

    How Iran could respond to U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites

    Jun 22, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... and say that was the Iran era, Iran's axis of resistance era in the Middle East. They were dominating five Arab lands, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza through their proxy militias. They overreached on October 7th after the Hamas attack against Israel. Supreme Leader Khamenei was the only ...

  • 4 ways Tehran could retaliate after U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program

    4 ways Tehran could retaliate after U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program

    Jun 22, 2025 08:20 PM EST

    ... could potentially make the strait impassable, at least for a time. It could also fire missiles from its long Persian Gulf shore, as its allies, Yemen's Houthi rebels, have done in the Red Sea. The U.S., with its 5th Fleet stationed in nearby Bahrain, has long pledged to ...

  • Nations around the world react to U.S. strikes on Iran, with many calling for diplomacy

    Nations around the world react to U.S. strikes on Iran, with many calling for diplomacy

    Jun 22, 2025 04:52 PM EST

    Both the Houthi rebels in Yemen and Hamas condemned the U.S. strikes. The Houthi political bureau in a statement called on Muslim nations to join “the Jihad and resistance option as one front against the Zionist-American arrogance.” Hamas and the Houthis are part of Iran’s so-called ...

  • What to know about the U.S. military's intervention in the Israel-Iran war

    What to know about the U.S. military's intervention in the Israel-Iran war

    Jun 22, 2025 03:33 PM EST

    ... the 27-nation bloc’s foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, with the Israel-Iran war high on the agenda. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who had threatened to resume attacks on U.S. vessels in the Red Sea if the Trump administration joined Israel’s military campaign, called ...

  • WATCH: Trump addresses the nation after U.S. bombs 3 Iranian nuclear sites

    WATCH: Trump addresses the nation after U.S. bombs 3 Iranian nuclear sites

    Jun 22, 2025 12:46 AM EST

    ... S. attack that American military involvement “would be very, very dangerous for everyone.” The prospect of a wider war loomed. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they would resume attacks on U.S. vessels in the Red Sea if the Trump administration joined Israel’s military campaign. The Houthis ...