The Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff to deal with the potential devastation of Hurricane Milton as it barrels toward Tampa with wind speeds that have reached 175 miles per hour. As of Monday morning, just 9 percent of FEMA
Postpandemic vacancies and surging debt payments have eaten away at commercial real estate for more than two years. Even as those threats start to fade, owners of strip mallsphgaming, apartment buildings and office towers face a problem that could l
Bertide Horace, a community leader in central Haiti, was awoken in the wee hours last Thursday by a phone call from a woman who sounded desperate. “Pont-Sondé is being invaded by the gang, please send for help,” the caller said, according to Ms. Hor
For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But gender and sexual identity is only a part of who th
A night of heavy rainfall left at least 16 people dead and large parts of southern Bosnia under water or smothered by landslidesuna game, the authorities said on Friday. Fourteen people died in the municipality of Jablanica, about 50 miles southwest
This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum in association with The New York Times. On the first day of the fall semester at Boston University, Michelle Amazeen, an associate professor of mass communication, asked her graduat
MELAKA: Standing amid the stifling heat, Ms Yiyi - a native of China’s Yunnan province - was dressed in a pink embroidered Nonya kebaya with blue sarong, posing for photographs against a backdrop of maroon-painted shophouses in the heart of Melaka c
SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S Iswaran was sentenced to 12 months' jail on Thursday (Oct 3).svip He pleaded guilty to five charges last week - four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of just
SINGAPORE: Property tycoonclub asia, hotelier and Singapore GP head Ong Beng Seng was charged on Friday (Oct 4) over his involvement in the case of former transport minister S Iswaran. Mr Ong, 78, faces one count of abetting a public servant in obt
JAKARTA: “Ibu (Mother) Rini” gives advice to the young about relationships and health on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The 50-year-old has more than 230,000 followers and has amassed millions of likes for her videos, which teach
