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Such instruments are used in dilation and evacuation procedures.

The visit by DPP secretary general Joseph Wu, who leaves for Washington on Monday, comes after an increasingly assertive China warned Taiwan in the wake of the election to abandon its “hallucination” about independence.

In July, Senator Bob Menendez, the most outspoken Democratic Party critic of Obama’s foreign policy, voiced his strong concerns about the deal. And all of this, as convoluted as it may sound, brings us to the story of ten captured United States Navy sailors who, for 40...

Its director, Captain Chris Kelenske of the Michigan State Police, said a primary goal is to provide every household in Flint with a water filter, which can remove almost all lead from water when properly used.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen.

Also Zarif stated that extremism threatens the entire planet, not just a single region, and Iran is ready to fight this common enemy. While sanctions may have helped bring Iran to the negotiating table, it’s not clear that holding out for a better deal, while keeping...

A school in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche is in lockdown and dealing with an emergency situation amid reports of a shooting.

Shortly afterward, the three left for a US military base in Germany, arriving there later yesterday, a US State Department official said.

A Marine sergeant originally from Delano, Minnesota, is among those missing after two US helicopters collided on a training mission over Hawaii, family members say.

At least 21 people including eight children have died as two boats smuggling migrants or refugees sank off Greek islands.

Up to 12 weeks could be taken when combined with regular sick and vacation time.

JERUSALEM, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Israel plans to appropriate a large tract of agricultural land in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Army Radio said on Wednesday, a move that has angered Palestinians and is nearly certain to draw worldwide criticism.

Aunt Halima Hassan tends to Mohamed Abdiqani Kheyre, 3, who survived the restaurant attack but whose mother was killed during the siege, at the Madina hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016.

The country was pronounced Ebola-free in November by the World Health Organization, but it was only Thursday that neighboring Liberia received a similar assessment.

Mounting concern in Europe over the scale of the refugee crisis burst into the open when the Dutch prime minister warned that without a reduction in the flow of migrants, border-free travel under the Schengen agreement could break down within two months. Any reforms to the system...