Month: January 2021

China is increasing efforts to stop deployment of an American anti-missile system on the Korean Peninsula. The missile system is called THAAD, short for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense…

American officials have expressed “deep concern” about new fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government troops. More than 10 people have been killed since Monday in and near…

Medical marijuana is legal in parts of the United States and several countries in South America. Argentina is not one of them. But that has not stopped a group of…

More than one million international students are studying in the United States. Many of them find it helpful to have a smartphone and an American credit card. These things make…

As of last week, Morocco was the only African country that was not a member of the African Union, or AU. That situation has changed. On Monday, African leaders decided…

More and more cities across the world are experimenting with driverless vehicles on public streets. Two of the latest to conduct testing are Paris, France and Las Vegas, Nevada. The…

President Donald Trump is defending his executive order that bans people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The order was signed by Trump on Friday. It puts…

People blink their eyes tens of thousands of times every day. Scientists have long believed blinking was an involuntary movement and served mainly to keep the eyeballs wet. But a…

Nearly six years after Noriko Matsumoto and her children fled Japan’s Fukushima area, they face a new possible hardship: cuts to government assistance for housing. People who lived near the…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is seeking ways to save NATO if the United States decides to cut back on its support for the alliance. European leaders are not sure…

Finding quality, low-cost housing can be a problem for university students, especially in The Netherlands. Last year, the average cost to rent a house in Amsterdam rose to over 2,000…

A protest in Iran has raised concerns about broadcast jamming equipment and its effect on human health. The protest took place on January 9 in the southern city of Shiraz.…

An increasing number of countries are banning North Korea’s state-owned airline because of United Nations Security Council restrictions. Last January, North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test. In response,…

Thousands of people came to Washington to attend the March for Life demonstration on Friday. The yearly gathering protests abortion. An abortion is a medical operation that ends a pregnancy…

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled a meeting with the new president of the United States, Donald Trump. The meeting had been planned for next week. Pena Nieto acted…