The deadly virus raising fears at California's Yosemite National Park does not spread easily, and, despite two recent deaths, does not warrant closing the park, a spokeswoman said Monday.
The Yongbyon nuclear complex has been the beating heart of North Korea's nuclear programme for more than 50 years -- a source of great domestic pride and even greater global anxiety.
Iraqi Kurds may have long dreamed of founding their own state, but the independence referendum set for September 25 has also exposed divisions between their autonomous region's main cities.
Yemen's Huthi rebels held a funeral on Monday for their prime minister and 11 other senior officials killed in an Israeli air strike that decimated its political cabinet.
Once a bus wreck peppered with bullet holes, the pristine white water tanker parked in front of a Yemen university now delivers water to students in the war-torn and cholera-hit south.
The warring sides in Yemen's long conflict have agreed to exchange 1,081 prisoners, the United Nations mediator said on Sunday following talks in Switzerland.
The head of Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels threatened Thursday to fire missiles at the United Arab Emirates and to attack Saudi tankers in the Red Sea.
Hundreds of Yemeni students demonstrated on Monday calling for the expulsion of the US ambassador and condemning the deployment of US Marines to protect his embassy, an AFP correspondent said.
Yemen has one of the world's highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives, the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned, nine years after the start of the brutal civil war.
Huthi rebels in Yemen said on Friday an air raid by Saudi-led coalition warplanes on a house northeast of the capital Sanaa killed nine civilians including women and children.
Yemen's Huthi rebels said they executed nine people on Saturday for involvement in the killing of one of their top leaders in a 2018 air strike claimed by Saudi Arabia.
The yen strengthened on Monday to less than 140 per dollar ahead of a Federal Reserve policy meeting this week that is widely expected to see US officials cut interest rates.
Long awaited UN-backed talks between Yemen's warring parties sputtered out Saturday before ever truly starting, after the Huthi rebels refused to travel to Geneva and fresh fighting broke out on the ground.
Yemen's Huthi rebels on Monday said they had fired a missile at a tanker in the Red Sea, days after their prime minister was killed in an Israeli attack.
Yemen's Huthi rebels said they fired a missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Saturday, hoping to hit it as Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu arrived back from a visit to New York.
Yemen's president issued a decree on Wednesday reinstating around 800 senior army officers and police who had been retired after the 1994 civil war.
