US says Somali pirates likely behind attempted tanker seizure near Yemen | Houthis News

US says Somali pirates likely behind attempted tanker seizure near Yemen | Houthis News

The Pentagon has said that the attempted hijacking was likely the work of Somali pirates rather than Houthi fighters. The United States has said that a group of attackers who tried to seize an Israel-linked cargo ship over the weekend were probably Somali pirates rather than Houthi fighters from nearby…

US Navy thwarts seizure of Israel-linked cargo ship | Houthis News

US Navy thwarts seizure of Israel-linked cargo ship | Houthis News

US destroyer USS Mason responds to a distress call from an Israel-linked commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden. The US military has captured five attackers who seized an Israel-linked cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden amid missile attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen. The destroyer USS Mason responded on Sunday…

Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont, US amid Israel-Hamas truce | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont, US amid Israel-Hamas truce | Israel-Palestine conflict News

While the motive behind the attack is unknown, it came amid rising anti-Palestine sentiments in the US. Three young Palestinian men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont in the United States, according to media reports. Reports said the incident took place on Saturday evening near the University…

It is time the US considers Hamas’s survival in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

It is time the US considers Hamas’s survival in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Three days into the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas, the agreement appears to hold and there is even talk of extending it. By Monday, 50 Israeli women and children are supposed to have been exchanged for 150 Palestinian women and children, with mediators hinting that the deal could continue…

As genocide rages, doctors must choose: Care or collaborationism | Israel-Palestine conflict

As genocide rages, doctors must choose: Care or collaborationism | Israel-Palestine conflict

“The physician is the natural attorney of the poor” was a slogan Rudolf Virchow, a wealthy German pathologist, politician and social medicine activist, helped popularise in the mid-nineteenth century. More than 100 years later, Frantz Fanon – a Martinican-born psychiatrist who resigned from his position in the French medical system…

Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees

Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees

The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It…

North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile
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North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile

North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency issued the report a day after the country’s neighbors detected a…

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

China on Saturday criticized the latest US decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US. “Out of the need to maintain its…