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 […]
Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian group that monitors police arrests said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a […]
The issue of slavery reparations recently took center stage in the United States as the country commemorated Juneteenth. The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary decided to open talks on reparations and held a hearing […]
A prominent LGBT rights campaigner has been found dead with multiple stab wounds and signs of strangulation in the Russian city of St Petersburg. The body of a 41-year-old woman was found in bushes near […]
Tehran, Iran — Iran claimed Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some have already been sentenced […]
The United States is deploying troops in Saudi Arabia as tensions soar with its arch-rival Iran raising concerns over navigation in the Gulf’s strategic Strait of Hormuz. It will be the first deployment of its […]
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