The World Health Organization said on Monday that a rash of coronavirus cases spotted outside China could be ‘the spark that becomes a bigger fire,’ as the death toll reached 908 and surpassed the SARS outbreak of 2002 and 2003.
A High Court in Pakistan has judged that Muslim men may marry underage Christian girls as long as they have had their first menstrual cycle, contravening an earlier law that forbade marriage for any girl under the age of 18 in the face of widespread abductions.
A senior NATO official expressed concern about the rise of China as a global power in a speech recently, calling on the communist regime to join existing missile agreements with the US and Russia.
A Nigerian professor-turned-politician claimed last week that Boko Haram has created nearly 120,000 orphans and widows since it began its onslaught against Christians in the West African nation.
Settler leaders in Israel this week are asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore the US request to wait till after elections to annex areas of the Jordan Valley and West Bank and move ahead applying Israeli sovereignty to the historic land.
After weeks of devastating wildfires, Australia’s east coast is now experiencing major flash flooding caused by downpours across the region.
Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
Chinese health officials confirmed that the deadly novel coronavirus can be spread through the air, according to a Shanghai press conference on Feb. 8.
The House is poised this week to pass a measure that would revive the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment by repealing the 1982 deadline imposed on states to ratify it.
The Commonwealth of Virginia could become the first southern state to ban LGBT discrimination.
A Florida woman, who filed a federal complaint after her homeowners association barred her from continuing to host a Bible study in the social room of her own condominium complex, has reached a settlement allowing her to carry on with the religious activity, a legal group that represented the Christian woman said.
Employers created more jobs in January than economists expected, with 225,000 workers added to payrolls, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, while unemployment ticked up to a still-low 3.6%.
FBI Director Christopher Wray agreed that the Justice Department and the FBI illegally surveilled Carter Page when they used British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier to obtain four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against the Trump campaign associate.
Evangelist Franklin Graham has been banned from delivering sermons by all seven venues on his upcoming tour of the United Kingdom.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a novel source of leverage against the European Union in seeking a trade deal: ‘carousel’ retaliation, meaning tariffs applied to a shifting set of products.
The White House on Sunday unveiled a $4.8 trillion budget proposal that would slash spending dramatically on foreign aid and social safety nets, while including $2 billion for a southern border wall and substantially boosting funding to NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security.
President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials told Reuters.
Iran has failed another attempt at launching a satellite into space.
Following South Dakota, one lawmaker in Florida is proposing legislation that would outlaw sex-change procedures for children.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled Sunday a short-range ballistic missile that they said can be powered by a “new generation” of engines designed to put satellites into orbit.