An Italian surfer has died after being impaled in the chest by a sharp-billed fish while surfing off Indonesia’s West Sumatra coast. Giulia Manfrini, 36, had been surfing in the Mentawai Islands, a remote island chain when she suffered a “freak accident,” said her business partner James Colston. “Unfortunately, even…
India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes as both countries’ leaders arrive in Russia for a summit. India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday said the agreement on military…
The sun blisters the arid ground in Karnal, a district in India’s northern Haryana state, where empty houses stand testament to an acute problem that’s driving some residents to take unimaginable risks. There are no jobs here, so young educated locals who dream of a better life are paying thousands…
In his fourth and likely final trip to Ukraine ahead of the U.S. election next month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin championed Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deadly years-long assault but warned there is ‘no silver bullet’ to end the war. ‘There is no silver bullet. No…
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that the United States is monitoring reports that North Korean soldiers are ‘deploying to Russia’ to fight in Ukraine. ‘We’re obviously continuing to look into those reports,’ Kirby said. ‘We’re talking to our allies and partners about what…
South Korea demanded on Monday that the Russian ambassador protest military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow, calling for the immediate pullout of North Korean troops rumored to have been deployed to help Russia. The Associated Press reported Friday that South Korea’s spy agency confirmed North Korea sent 1,500 special operations…
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday pushed back on the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris has struggled to distinguish herself from President Biden on the campaign trail. A reporter suggested Harris has had difficulty separating herself from Biden’s domestic and foreign policy positions in ‘interview after interview.’…
Liz Cheney teamed up with Vice President Kamala Harris Monday in a last-minute effort to appeal to moderate Republicans who the former congresswoman believes might be uneasy about voting for Donald Trump but are afraid to say so publicly. Harris and Cheney visited three counties: Chester County in Pennsylvania, Oakland…
Vice President Harris frequently says that if elected she will build a ‘strong middle class,’ even as the Biden administration pushes for an electric vehicle mandate that one economist says is out of step with most middle-class Americans. ‘I believe we need to grow our middle class and make sure…
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has opened up a sizable advantage in the election betting odds in recent weeks, giving Americans a new way of trying to piece together what might happen come Election Day. ‘More than two billion dollars have been bet on the election already,’ Maxim…