While the pope’s trip is intended to send a message of peace and resilience, the scenes along the way have all the hallmarks of superspreader events. Crowds were often packed together with…
The Loyalist Communities Council, which represents several banned paramilitary groupings, said in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the new trade rules undermined the basis of Northern Ireland’s 1998 Good…
Mass shootings jumped nearly 50% in 2020, due in large part to a pandemic year rife with crippling unemployment, violent protests and idle youth. With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccines rolling out, some criminologists hope…
The US 7th Fleet, headed by the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur, carried out a “routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Thursday. But a spokesman for the Chinese military criticised the US destroyer for…
When talks ended abruptly in January, just days after beginning, both sides submitted their wish lists for agendas. The task now is for the two sides to sift through the respective wish…