ABYAN / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), responded to an emergency call by civilians in Hammat Sarar in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate. The emergency aid convoy consisted of 250 food parcels to some 200 families in Hammat Sarar, situated via rugged mountain roads four kilometres away from Abyan. Accompanying the UAE aid convoy, Saleh Qasim, Director-General of the Sarar Directorate, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump agreed to re-open the federal government for about three weeks without any guarantee Congress would provide money for his proposed border wall, his top campaign promise, capitulating to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump agreed to a deal hastily negotiated by lawmakers after the 35-day shutdown, the longest in modern US history, began to seriously impact air ...

Bloomberg A tailings dam owned by miner Vale SA broke in the state of Minas Gerais on Friday, hitting a local community near the capital and echoing a similar accident that became Brazil’s biggest environmental disaster three years ago. Approximately 200 people are missing, a spokesperson for emergency services in Minas Gerais state told Bloomberg, adding that poor mobile phone ...