Urgent alert issued over millions struggling with ‘catastophic levels’ of hunger as less than half of required aid received ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia Stock Market Likely Rangebound Again On Friday
The Malaysia stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the two-day slide in which it had stumbled nearly 50 points or 3 percent. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia wants employers to improve worker housing
KUALA LUMPUR • Employers in Malaysia must prepare adequate housing facilities for their foreign workers before they would be allowed into the country, a senior Cabinet minister said yesterday in a get ... ( read original story ...)
Uzbekistan beckons after China trashes Australian wine exports
Some mid-sized wine groups spent 20 years building an export business to China via plenty of 'shoe leather', but it's gone up in smoke. ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabian Track and Field Record-Breaker, Alya Alghamdi, Donates 300 Books to California Prisons
To educate and empower inmates within state penitentiaries, record-setting Saudi Arabian track and field athlete, Alya Alghamdi, has donated 300 books written by David Meltzer to California-based ... ( read original story ...)
Defense bill seeks to halt Afghanistan drawdown
The compromise defense policy bill released Thursday includes language aimed at preventing a withdrawal from Afghanistan amid President Trump's order to cut U.S. forces there to 2,500 by ... ( read original story ...)
Iraq unrest fuels spike in domestic violence cases
Successive political and economic crises that have plagued Iraq since 2019 appear to be causing an unprecedented surge in domestic violence, the like of which the country hasn’t seen in decades. The ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. Military Families in South Korea? Top U.S. General Wants a Rethink
The top U.S. general on Thursday suggested he favored an overhaul of a longstanding military policy that sends thousands of family members to live with forces deployed overseas in select locations ... ( read original story ...)
In Iran, assassination shock spurs calls to rethink security
Did Iran’s yearslong state of alert against Israeli and American infiltration lead to a complacency that made a physicist vulnerable to assassination? ( read original story ...)
After nuclear scientist’s brazen killing, Iran is torn over a response — restraint or fury?
Just days after the targeted killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a battle has already broken out in Iran over his legacy. President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist camp seems eager ... ( read original story ...)