Here is a look at the life of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators. Mother: Halema Mohammed Marriage: Wife’s name unavailable publicly Children: Abed al-Khalid; Yusuf al-Khalid Education: North Carolina A&T University, Mechanical Engineering, 1986 Other Facts: …
Hong Kong (CNN)From the jungles of Myanmar to the streets of Hong Kong, police throughout Asia are fighting a war against methamphetamine. By many indications, they’re losing. Demand for both crystal meth and yaba, tablets that typically contain a mixture …
Women console each other after identifying the body of a relative in Balaroa village. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters The logistics of responding to the disaster have been fraught with difficulty. Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 13,000 islands spread over …
Record-breaking US wildfires are fueling a cottage industry of boutique services and many are happy to pay the price With record-breaking wildfires carving up the American west this summer, firefighters have become the rarest of civil servants: the kind almost …
(CNN)Rivers of soil swept away entire neighborhoods in Indonesia following a powerful earthquake last week that also generated a tsunami in a disaster that has killed at least 1,407 people. Footage has emerged from the stricken city of Palu showing …
Protecting and restoring forests would reduce 18% of emissions by 2030 and help to avoid global temperature rise beyond 1.5C The role of forests in combating climate change risks being overlooked by the worlds governments, according to a group of …
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An operation is underway to evacuate thousands of tourists after a deadly earthquake that rocked some of Indonesia’s most idyllic islands late Sunday night. The majority of those killed in the quake were hit by falling debris from …
Victor Lytvinenko is thumbing through emails on his iPhone trying to find the one that best shows the damage the global trade war has already done to his little, decade-old American jeans company. The 37-year-old — dressed in a black …
CANBERRA, Australia – Peter Dutton, the government lawmaker who has challenged Australia’s prime minister for his job, is publicly perceived as a hard man and a leading hard-right conservative. His face is associated with turning back asylum seekers boats, stripping …
Sydney boy boarded flight alone to Perth, then another to Indonesia, where he checked into the All Seasons hotel A 12-year-old Sydney boy stole his parents credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport and flew to Bali …