Second Indonesian

A ferry carrying 243 people sank in rough waters between Java and Borneo on September 13, leaving at least one dead and more than 100 missing. According to France 24, the disaster marks the second major ferry accident in the Indonesian region within five days,...

South Korea's second disaster relief team arrived in Nepal on Friday morning local time, landing at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 8:44 AM aboard a KC-330 'Cygnus' military transport aircraft. The team will conduct search-and-rescue operations over a seven-day mission, following an initial South...

According to WION, escalating U.S.-Iran hostilities have disrupted maritime traffic at the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-al-Mandeb — two critical chokepoints controlling nearly 30% of global seaborne oil trade — with crude prices exceeding $100 per barrel as of September 2026. WION reports that simultaneous...

Scripps News reports on two separate policy stories in its September 10 headlines broadcast. The first covers ICE ankle monitoring contracts, under which private companies are paid by the federal government to operate immigration surveillance systems. The second covers tax refunds being issued to Affordable...

Nepal held a national day of mourning on September 8 — the 13th day since catastrophic flooding struck on August 26 — to commemorate more than 1,300 people killed across Nepal and Tibet, with approximately 5,000 still missing including foreign nationals, according to Nepal's disaster...