The new virus that has killed 17 people in China is mutating and could spread further, health officials have warned, as Britain announced measures to monitor flights arriving from the country.
An Iranian lawmaker offered three million dollars to any person who assassinates US President Donald Trump Tuesday, echoing earlier calls by the regime for someone to bring them the head of Trump for eighty million dollars.
The Senate convened a rare presidential impeachment trial Tuesday with an immediate partisan fight over witnesses and the terms of the proceedings.
A new round of locust swarms has hit Ethiopia and is again threatening crops and food security, say agricultural officials.
The Western troop presence in Iraq is to be scaled down under a plan to defuse regional tensions over America’s killing of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani.
Israel’s internal security agency says it has thwarted over 560 ‘significant’ terror plots, including suicide attacks, in the past year.
Iran warned Monday it will withdraw from the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Germany, France, and Britain refer their dispute over the Iran nuclear deal to the U.N. Security Council.
Open Doors USA CEO David Curry issued a major warning about China following the release of the most recent World Watch List, saying that it was creating a technological apparatus that could become the “blueprint” for Christian persecution worldwide.
U.S. homebuilding surged to a 13-year high in December as activity increased across the board, suggesting the housing market recovery was back on track amid low mortgage rates, and could help support the longest economic expansion on record.
Key players in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump and his defense argued sharply Sunday whether his efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit him politically were impeachable offenses that warranted his removal from office.
The European Union has urged Turkey to drop plans to drill for oil and gas around Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, saying such exploration was ‘illegal.’
Authorities in Iran arrested a Christian woman who converted from Islam during protests last week against the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet, though it is still not known whether she had any involvement with the demonstrations.
Planned Parenthood is launching a new $45 million campaign to support Democrats in the 2020 elections, the organization’s most expensive campaign push in its history.
Virginia Democrats took an important step toward passing several gun control bills they have prioritized during this year’s General Assembly session.
President Trump issued updated rules on Thursday to ensure that public school students are allowed to engage in constitutionally protected prayer, calling his action ‘the Right to Pray.’
China will boost spending on U.S. products in exchange for the rolling back of some tariffs under an initial trade deal signed by the world’s two largest economies on Wednesday, defusing an 18-month row but leaving numerous thorny issues unresolved.
The IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate issued its annual assessment for 2020 on Tuesday, warning that Iran might have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb by this spring.
Russia and China have responded negatively to Tuesday’s decision by their European partners in the Iran nuclear deal to trigger a formal dispute resolution process in response to Tehran’s actions in violation of the 2015 agreement.
In his annual state of the nation address in Moscow, Putin announced his wish to reform the Russian constitution. ‘I truly believe that it is time to introduce certain changes to our country’s main law,’ Putin said. Shortly afterward the government resigned en masse, not in protest but seemingly to pave the way for these reforms.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Wednesday that if Israel succeeds in imposing ‘an unthinkable solution’ by annexing parts of the West Bank, hopes for a two-state solution and Palestinian state would quickly come to an end.