UN envoy arrives in Yemen's Hodeida to encourage calm

UN envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in the battleground Yemeni port city of Hodeida on Friday to encourage the warring sides to exercise restraint ahead of planned peace talks in December. The conflict in Yemen, which escalated when the Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015, has killed thousands of people and left up to 14 million at risk of famine, according to UN agencies. In the past week, both sides have expressed support for the UN envoy's mission to relaunch peace talks, and the fighting in Hodeida has diminished despite intermittent clashes.

House Republicans Make Last-Minute Call On James Comey For Private Deposition — He Asks For It To Be Public

House Republicans are making a last-ditch move to call on former FBI Director James Comey to testify in a private deposition, but he has other ideas. On Thanksgiving morning, Comey revealed that he had received a subpoena request from the House Judiciary Committee, which will be led by Republicans for only a few more weeks before they turn over control to Democrats. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the committee, has sent subpoenas to both Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for testimony, CNN reported.

Brace Yourself – Amazon’s Annual Black Friday Sales Are In Full Swing Right Now

Shoppers can experience some of the biggest discounts of the year on Amazon’s popular devices and top of the line gadgets without having to leave the comfort of their home. Fear not — because we’ve put together a list with some of the newest and most notable items that Amazon is slashing prices on.

Climate change 'will inflict substantial damages on US lives'

A home is overshadowed by towering smoke plumes in Paradise, California . Climate change is already harming Americans’ lives with “substantial damages” set to occur as global temperatures threaten to surge beyond internationally agreed limits, a major US government report has warned. The influence of climate change is being felt across the US with increases in disastrous wildfires in the west, flooding on the east coast, soil loss in the midwest and coastal erosion in Alaska, according to the US National Climate Assessment.

Saudi prince lands in UAE on first foreign tour since Khashoggi murder

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman embarked Thursday on a regional tour starting with the United Arab Emirates, his first official trip abroad since critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder tipped the kingdom into crisis. Prince Mohammed will visit a "number of brotherly" Arab states at the request of his father, King Salman, the royal court said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, without naming the countries. Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed welcomed him on his first stop in the UAE, a close ally that is part of a Saudi-led coalition battling Iran-aligned Huthi rebels in Yemen, according to the Emirati state news agency WAM.

Trump takes bid to restrict transgender troops to Supreme Court

Trump announced in March that he would endorse a plan by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to restrict the military service of transgender people who experience a condition called gender dysphoria. The policy replaced an outright ban on transgender service members that Trump announced last year on Twitter, citing concern over military focus and medical costs.

Dead American told island tribe 'Jesus loves you'

An American missionary killed in a hail of arrows by an island tribe untouched by modern civilisation was bent on converting them to Christianity, it emerged Thursday. John Allen Chau, 27, was attacked last week as he illegally set foot on the remote North Sentinel Island in the Indian Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. A statement attributed to his family posted on his purported Instagram account said that Chau "had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people.