Bloomberg The US has classified Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organisation following a series of attacks on oil tankers in the Red Sea and as Washington seeks to increase pressure on Iran in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency. The move will give the US “additional tools” with which to counter security threats in the Persian Gulf, according ...

Bloomberg First lady Melania Trump said on Monday she was “disappointed and disheartened” by the violent attack on the US Capitol last week and called for healing. “Make no mistake about it, I absolutely condemn the violence that has occurred on our Nation’s Capitol. Violence is never acceptable,” she said in a statement released by the White House. Trump called ...

Bloomberg North Korea appeared to stage a military parade as part of a grand party congress that laid out the scale of the challenge US President-elect Joe Biden faces to rein in Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program. There were signs that North Korea held a parade late Sunday evening, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday, in what ...