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Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring
A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak...
Trump says US military has blockaded Iranian ports to pressure Tehran
President Trump said Monday that the American military had begun a blockade of Iranian ports as part of his effort to force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizes direct talks with Lebanon in potential boost to ceasefire efforts
A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut and Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran fires on Israel and Gulf neighbors as President Trump claims threat from Tehran nearly eliminated
Iran’s attacks on Gulf states along with its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted the world’s energy supplies with effects far beyond the Middle East.
Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast
Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge...
Trump administration’s capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework
From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent...
NATO chief praises Trump for making Europe ‘pay in a BIG way’ on defense ahead of summit
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised President Donald Trump for making Europe “pay in a BIG way.”
The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?
Dutch opposition parties called Wednesday for fresh elections as soon as possible, a day after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders sparked the collapse of the country’s four-party coalition government.
Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic.
Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said...
Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA, tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on and off switches inside...