Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a news conference that Iran is responsible for the recent attacks on oil tankers in the Middle East. Two tankers were damaged Thursday in the Gulf of Oman. ( read original story ...)
Singapore quizzer finally wins $10k after Tony Hadley’s message
On 21 April, he finally thought he had all 14 answers - only to be told he scored 13. But on 6 May, another caller said the exact same answers - and was awarded the $10,000. When Mr Shalehan ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Health Official: Yet to See Coronavirus Mutation
Vernon Lee, director of the communicable diseases division at Singapore's Ministry of Health, talks about Covid-19 and the government's efforts to prevent the further spreading of the virus. Singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanon’s cash crisis hits Eid: ‘There is nothing to celebrate this year’
Soaring prices have left basic goods outside the reach of more than half of country’s population ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanon central bank to give dollars for food imports, defend currency
Lebanon's central bank will start providing dollars for food imports as part of "necessary measures" to defend the battered local currency, whose slump has sent prices skyrocketing. ( read original story ...)
American women and children who lived under ISIS in Syria returned to U.S.
Two American women and six children with ties to ISIS are being sent back to the U.S. from Syria. They're among thousands of foreigners who have been held in detention camps across the country. CBS ... ( read original story ...)
Riad Ismat, Evanston scholar who fled war-torn Syria, dies of COVID-19
Among the latest local victims of COVID-19 in Illinois is a scholar who escaped the war-torn Middle East to teach here in the U.S. Riad Ismat was renowned in Syria. Diplomat, writer, and cultural ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea’s Kim keeps low public profile in May: analysts
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made an unusually small number of public appearances in the past two months, once again going three weeks without state media reporting his attendance at a public ... ( read original story ...)
Still No Coronavirus Cases In North Korea, Russian Ambassador Says There’s No Reason To Doubt
North Korea was among the first countries to seal its border with China after COVID-19 first emerged, said Alexander Matsegora, Russia's ambassador to the country. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus catastrophe unfolding in south Yemen – medical charity MSF
The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site said on Thursday, more than double the toll ... ( read original story ...)