UNITED NATIONS — Yemen’s internationally recognized government pressed world leaders anew Thursday for help defeating the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, saying that their new perch along one of the world’s busiest waterways presents an international economic risk. The Houthis — who have controlled Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north for over a decade
There is something pleasingly improbable about Angh. The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India’s northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad. It was director Theja Rio’s first feature and most of its cast faced a camera
WASHINGTON — When Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a state visit in 2015, he sought to calm the growing unease among the Americans about his country’s rapid ascent. Xi largely succeeded, shaking hands with then-President Barack Obama to deepen economic ties and expand cooperation. In the Rose Garden, Obama declared that the
With U.S. diesel prices rising to an all-time high this week, President Donald Trump added support to the calls from farm-state Republicans to implement a temporary ban on diesel exports. “I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel. I’ve called for it,” Trump said late Tuesday at the U.N.
Lynn had told his players to be brave in the build-up, and he was courageous with his team selection after moving scrum-half Keira Bevan to 10. The gamble paid off as the hosts enjoyed a perfect start under Friday night lights and it was fitting that the recently crowned Welsh Rugby Writers’ player of the
No Spanish industry initiative is likely to drive more conversation at this year’s San Sebastián Festival than the latest moves by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT). Over the past 12 months, state-backed venture capital fund SETT, the investment driver of the Spain Audiovisual Hub, has plowed €215.6 million ($252.3 million) into Spain’s film,
