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Trump vows ‘all options open’ against North Korea

Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ US President Donald Trump said that “all options” are under consideration in response to North Korea firing an unidentified ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday as Kim Jong Un’s latest provocation rattled markets. “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the ...

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Texas faces more flooding as Houston crippled

Bloomberg It keeps getting deeper for Houston, the epicenter of the US oil industry. As floods inundated the nation’s fourth-largest city on Monday, with more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage ranged as high as $100 billion. Wall Street and Washington braced for the repercussions of the costliest US natural disaster since ...

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‘Thailand has no plan to revoke passports of former PM Yingluck’

BANGKOK / Reuters Thailand has no immediate plan to revoke the passports of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the foreign minister said on Tuesday, after she fled the country last week ahead of a court ruling in a negligence case. Yingluck, 50, was elected Thailand’s first female prime minister in 2011 and is the sister of ousted former prime minister ...

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