Category: 4. World

The National Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to legalize tattooing by nonmedical professionals, ending a decadeslong ban that had criminalized the country’s thriving tattoo industry.

The landmark Tattooist Act passed a plenary session of…

The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $610m (£540m) off the coast of West Africa, French authorities have said.

Two French naval vessels operating as part of Operation Corymbe intercepted the enormous cocaine haul from an…

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flight to the US took a circuitous route in an apparent effort to avoid countries that could enforce an outstanding arrest…

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At least one immigration…

With the United Nations General Assembly taking place in New York right now, we’re seeing lots of interesting government aircraft headed to New York. However, arguably no plane is taking a more interesting path than that of Israeli Prime…

The day before global leaders convened this week in New York City for the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia joined the vast majority of the world’s…

WARSAW – Poland is preparing to amend its law on military deployments abroad to allow its forces to shoot down Russian objects, such as drones, over Ukraine without prior NATO or EU approval.

The draft, submitted by the defence ministry in…

Search and rescue crews cleared thousands of fallen trees and evacuated stranded residents on Thursday as tropical storm Ragasa weakened and moved toward Vietnam, leaving at least 24 dead across Taiwan and the…