The 1891 New Orleans lynching was the largest mass lynching of Italian Americans in U.S. history, in which 11 men were murdered by a mob following the acquittal of several suspects in the killing of p...

Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.

The U.S. bishops’ president answered the Pentagon within h. His statement comes as Tennessee’s bishops plead for Christa Pike’s life and Pope Leo XIV presses his home country to end the death penalty.

Settlers armed and shielded by Israel are driving West Bank olive farmers off ancestral land. Sanctions on a handful of them will not stop the next attack

<article data-history-node-id="447563" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-media-houthis-take-control-strait-mandeb-after-seizing-mayyun" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-media-houthis-take-control-strait-mandeb-after-seizing-mayyun" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iranian media: Houthis take control of Strait of Mandeb after seizing Mayyun Island </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Yemen’s Houthis control the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait after seizing Mayyun Island, also known as Perim Island, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported.</p> <p>Located at the centre of the Bab al-Mandab Strait,&nbsp; Mayyun Island is a key monitoring point overlooking the vital maritime passage.</p> <p>Two Yemeni sources also told Reuters that Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces had withdrawn from Perim Island.</p> <p>The development came after Houthis seized the western coastal city of Mocha, forcing the government forces to retreat toward the south and the city of Dhubab.</p> <p>Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree was also reported as saying that navigation in the Red Sea was safe except for Saudi ships, suggesting the group now has control over the Strait of Mandeb.<br> <br> Known as the "Gate of Tears" in Arabic, because of its history of shipwrecks, the strait sits at the southern tip of the Red Sea, connecting it with the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean.</p> <p>About 100 kilometres long and just 30 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, it separates Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula from Djibouti and Eritrea on the Horn of Africa.</p> <p>With the Red Sea linking maritime trade between Europe and Asia, the strait is usually one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.</p> <p>Oil tankers and cargo ships use it to reach the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, shortening journeys between Asia and Europe and North America by thousands of kilometres (miles).</p> <p>In 2024, as the Houthis attacked Red Sea shipping during the Gaza war, Suez Canal traffic fell sharply and has yet to recover, according to IMF PortWatch data analysed by AFP.</p> <p>Total transits dropped from 26,895 vessels in 2023, or 73.7 per day, to 14,498 in 2024 and 14,070 in 2025, AFP reported.&nbsp;</p> <div alt="Mandeb" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="09aa2eee-b9bc-4022-8f3e-f760719ffebe" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/main-images/Bab_el_Mandeb_1.jpg" width="666" height="435" alt="Mandeb" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

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Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

On July 24, organizers aim to break the world record for the most people of the same name to consecutively ride a roller coaster.

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The Navy confirmed the loss of a multimillion-dollar drone, one of more than a dozen costly unmanned aerial vehicles the U.S. has reportedly lost so far during the Iran war.

The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.