International

The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs mentions mass shootings in the security status listed for the United States. After two further mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, last weekend, the list of […]

A bill to widely expand abortion access in New Zealand passed its first parliamentary test. The country’s lawmakers voted to approve the Abortion Legalization Bill Thursday by a 94-23 vote. Current law in New Zealand […]

Iranian forces are actively using GPS jammers and pretending to be U.S. or allies’ warships to trick commercial vessels into traveling through Iranian waters and then seizing them, federal government officials say. The US Department […]

ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER RONALD REAGAN, South China Sea (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier has sailed through the disputed South China Sea in the latest show of America’s military might amid new territorial flare-ups […]

North Korea on Tuesday accused the United States of “inciting tension” by holding joint military exercises with South Korea and said Pyongyang would take measures to defend itself. Ju Yong Chol, a North Korean diplomat […]

The Royal Navy will join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling in the Gulf. The move comes amid growing tensions between the two western powers and Iran over the shipping route in the […]

BANGKOK — The Trump administration was hoping to quietly resume nuclear-disarmament talks with North Koreans at a major Asian summit here this week. But Pyongyang’s officials were a no-show, once again snubbing U.S. envoys and […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian Revolutionary Guard seized a ship in the Persian Gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported Sunday, marking Iran’s third seizure of a commercial vessel in recent weeks […]

A ban on face-covering veils and clothing in some public places went into effect in the Netherlands Thursday. But almost immediately, the new law was deemed “unworkable” because authorities are refusing to enforce it. The […]

A law to protect men from being “seduced” into raping women has been proposed in the Malaysian parliament. Mohamad Imran Abd Hamid, an MP with the ruling People’s Justice Party, told his fellow politicians that […]