U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced Iran following Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' succesful launch of the country's first military satellite into orbit, increasing tension with the United States over Tehran's nuclear and missile program. Pompeo reacted to Tehran's announcement...

The French military has defended its handling of the spread of the coronavirus aboard its flagship aircraft carrier, after more than a third of sailors tested positive for the disease. Nearly 700 out of 1,767 sailors in the carrier group that includes the flagship Charles de Gaulle have so...

An American reader tired of corona journalism sent me a plea this week: “There must be plenty of cruelty being unleashed by the gangsters-in-chief across the ‘Mideast’ that simply isn’t making it into the headlines,” she wrote. “Trump et al are either ignoring it or silently...

Forest fires raged Tuesday in the contaminated area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but officials insisted there is no radiation threat. Hundreds of firefighters backed by aircraft have been battling several forest fires around Chernobyl since last week. They managed to contain the...