Michael Jordan sneakers and memorabilia continue to attract top dollar after "The Last Dance" renewed interest in the basketball star ... ( read original story ...)
Shamima Begum, Who Joined ISIS in Syria, Can Return, U.K. Court Says
Shamima Begum’s eldest sister, Renu, holding her sister’s photo in 2015, after Ms. Begum fled to Syria with two other London teenagers.Credit...Laura Lean/WPA Pool, via Getty Images By Elian Peltier ... ( read original story ...)
Time running out to prevent huge oil spill off Yemen, UN official warns
Houthi rebels preventing access to rusting tanker containing 1.1m barrels of crude ... ( read original story ...)
Air strikes kill civilians in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, residents say
Jawf killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday, residents and an official from the Houthi movement said, in the third such incident since June as violence resurges in the war-damaged country. ( read original story ...)
Afghanistan condemns cross-border rocket firing by Pakistan
Kabul calls on Islamabad to refrain from 'unacceptable' rocket attacks as four killed in Afghanistan's Kunar province. ( read original story ...)
Afghanistan: 15 Taliban terrorists killed in airstrike
At least 15 Taliban terrorists were killed and 10 others injured in an airstrike by the Afghan air forces in Kandahar province, local police said on Wednesday. "Last night, Taliban terrorists attacked ... ( read original story ...)
Southern Iraq’s Toxic Twilight
The men of Nahran Omar, a village in the heart of southern Iraq’s oil country, filed into a Shiite shrine clutching envelopes with X-rays, medical reports and death certificates. They had come to ... ( read original story ...)
French FM urges Iraq to keep away from regional tensions
Yves Le Drian urged Baghdad on Thursday to "dissociate" itself from boiling regional tensions, hinting at dissatisfaction with unilateral Iranian and American strikes on Iraqi territory. Baghdad ... ( read original story ...)
British forces pull out of Iraq’s Taji base even as fight against ISIS rages
Only weeks after a military medic was killed in a rocket attack by an Iranian-backed group, Britain's army said it was pulling out its remaining troops from Camp Taji north of Baghdad. The UK ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea to expand investigations into defector rights groups
South Korea is to expand investigations into North Korea defector-led human rights groups in the wake of a standoff between Seoul and the activists, who recently launched balloons carrying ... ( read original story ...)