Why did Israel and Iran trade fire, and how does it affect wider peace efforts?
The arch-enemies’ exchange had the potential to derail the push for an end to the broader Middle East conflictMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael ...
Behind the historic efforts to transport Bayeux tapestry from France to UK
Special, secretive operation will ship 11th-century artwork across Channel without jolts, bumps or shakesAs the Bayeux tapestry wends its way across t...
‘Scum’: Trump attacks US states’ efforts to regulate prediction markets
President says federal government must retain regulatory authority as concerns grow over ‘addictive’ platformsDonald Trump wrote in a social media pos...
Spread of Ebola in DRC ‘outpacing’ response efforts, warns WHO
Director general of World Health Organization urges neighbouring countries to take immediate actionThe World Health Organization has warned that the E...
Australian military plane to join efforts to reopen strait of Hormuz, as Marles leaves door open to sending more assets
Defence minister says E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft deployed to Gulf in March will join UK and France-led defensive effort to calm Iran conflic...
How the Trump White House works against itself in its efforts to prevent overdoses
Contradictory policies that gut harm reduction programs while supporting naloxone access are confusing expertsWithin just a few weeks, the Trump admin...
Deadlock over Iran's nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz cripples peace efforts
Two months after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran started the war, peace talks are on hold, with control of the Strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran...
No headway in Middle East peace efforts as US and Iran refuse to yield
Deepening sense of deadlock despite regional diplomacy as Washington and Tehran show no signs of compromiseHopes of a breakthrough in negotiations bet...
US is taking a ‘real risk’ with hasty shift in efforts to fight HIV, experts say
Experts fear losing ground to virus even as the end of the HIV epidemic is in sight, and say decline in infant testing is ‘particularly concerning’The...
Two startlingly different views on long-awaited data on America's anti-HIV efforts
After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions o...