Dec. 25 (UPI) — An Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a high-ranking member of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, according to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who vowed retribution. Sardar Seyed Razi Mousavi, an advisor to the IRGC in Syria, was reportedly killed Monday in an airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus. In response,…
Greetings from Tyler, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that a law has passed the Texas legislature that will allow the arrest of illegal aliens. The bad news is, it doesn’t take effect until March. We see the glut at the border, it looks like the line to ride the…
Bahrain is the only regional country to join US-led operations against vessel seizures, as Saudi Arabia and UAE hedge bets amid threat of Yemeni group’s reprisal The US launched a multinational naval task force to counter Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on Monday. Observers were quick to notice it featured…
Broadcasters went off the air as opposition MPs barricaded themselves in public TV headquarters in an effort to stop the management changes. WARSAW — Poland’s new government moved Wednesday to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from the hands of loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which…
ROME, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Italy’s lower house of parliament voted on Thursday against a long-awaited reform of the euro zone bailout fund, throwing into doubt ratification of a European Union treaty that is designed to provide help for failing banks. The vote confirmed the deep hostility within Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling coalition to…
Angola announced it’s leaving OPEC after 16 years of membership amid a dispute over oil production quotas, while the cartel tries to buoy global prices. Luanda had rejected a reduced output limit imposed by the leaders of the cartel to reflect the country’s dwindling capacity. While the superficial blow to OPEC’s unity briefly weakened crude prices, the…
Dec. 19 (UPI) — The first group of about 20 people were airlifted to safety Tuesday from a remote flood-ravaged community in northern Queensland amid a major rescue operation by the Australian military. The Wujal Wujal evacuees arrived safely in Cooktown just before 5 p.m. local time aboard one of two Australian Defense Force chinook helicopters deployed to…
Attacks from the Houthis on shipping vessels have increased in response to the war in Gaza, with BP halting all shipments of oil and gas through the region Global supply chains are once again under threat, as the impact of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas ripples out across the Middle East. In recent weeks, Houthi…
The U.S. Steel Corporation, once America’s largest steelmaker and most valuable company, is set to be acquired by Japanese company Nippon Steel for $14.9 billion. Nippon Steel — the world’s fourth-largest steel producer — clinched the deal with an all-cash offer, outbidding American steelmakers Cleveland-Cliffs and Nucor, per the company’s announcement on Monday. The offer marked a 40%…
A new agreement between Germany and Lithuania will lead to German troops’ first permanent foreign deployment since World War II. The announcement was made Monday in Lithuania, where Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas met with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, to outline a multiyear “Roadmap Action Plan” involving approximately 4,800 permanently stationed German soldiers. Both officials called…