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With news of more birth defects linked to the Zika virus in Brazil prompting the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue travel advisories for affected countries, here is a primer for travelers.

At least 44 people, including 17 children, drowned on Friday in the Aegean Sea as two smuggling boats sunk off different Greek islands.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif both suggested that the new relationship helped to quickly resolve the incident involving two US Navy ships that sailed into Iranian waters.

“I know what it’s like to have no one care about you, or to have no power”, she said.

Irish said Friday that each helicopter had a crew of six.

Meanwhile, a United Nations investigator said on Friday that the world must back a criminal prosecution of North Korea’s leaders as there has been no improvement in human rights there in the two years since a United Nations report detailed Nazi-style atrocities.

The lifting of nuclear sanctions, coupled with the imposition of new missile sanctions is an important reminder that the nuclear deal with Iran will not solve all of the disagreements between our two countries. Consequently, Iran released five American prisoners as part of a...

The jihadist attack on a top Burkina Faso hotel was carried out by six gunmen, three of whom are still on the run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says.

And the US State Department “strongly recommends” against all travel to North Korea, warning that “US citizens have been subject to arrest and long-term detention for actions that would not be cause for arrest in the United States”.

‘Are we not Tunisians too?

India on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the Maldives government to give permission to former president Mohamed Nasheed to travel to Britain for medical treatment. The government had, on Saturday, granted Nasheed permission to travel overseas to undergo surgery in the UK.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, that the talks could be delayed by “a day or two” while invitations went out but that there would not be a “fundamental delay”.

The world must back a criminal prosecution of North Korea’s leaders as there has been no improvement in human rights there in the two years since a United Nations (UN) report detailed Nazi-style atrocities, a UN investigator said on Friday.

President Obama, in his State of the Union address earlier this week, tasked the vice president with a “moonshot” effort to find a cure for cancer.

According to the North’s official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and “was caught committing a hostile act against the state”, which it said was “tolerated and manipulated by the USA government”. The date of his arrest for...