Simon Kent

Long-promised new laws allowing Saudi women over 21 to travel without permission from a male guardian came into effect Tuesday.

Australia will join the United States and the UK in an international maritime coalition protecting oil tankers and cargo ships from threats posed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday night mixed up the name of the former British Prime Minister Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher – who left office in 1990.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea have joined together to co-author The Book of Gutsy Women, in honor of a range of female achievers from scientist Marie Curie to climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Inbound tourism to Israel has soared to nearly 2.6 million tourists so far in 2019 — a rise of nearly 10 percent against the same period last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Monday.

Grammy-winning singer John Legend appeared to place blame for the string of deadly mass shootings across the country in the past 24 hours at the feet of President Donald Trump, saying Sunday “he is a part of the problem.”

Two mass shootings in the United States have claimed 29 lives within 24 hours and left dozens of others injured and hospitalized for treatment.

Possible campaign finance irregularities by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti may form the basis of a federal probe, according to a report in the New York Post.

Iran seized another foreign-flagged oil tanker on Sunday morning for allegedly “smuggling fuel” to unspecified Arab states, local state media reports.

Antisemitic incidents have spiked across the UK over the first six month of this year,  a report released Thursday revealed.

A barefoot Duke of Sussex reportedly stood before an elite audience of business leaders and celebrities gathered at Google’s top-secret annual deluxe retreat in Sicily on Wednesday evening to warn immediate action is needed to avoid an approaching climate catastrophe.

The U.S. decision to impose sanctions on Iranian diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif shows they are “afraid” of his eloquence and powers of persuasion, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday.

The great and the good from the worlds of business, finance, politics, entertainment, and European royalty have descended on the Sicilian seaside for a billionaire’s-only party dubbed Google Summer Camp.

Iranian cartoonists have joined together to mount an exhibition mocking Britain’s ‘wicked’ Queen Elizabeth II as a cutlass-weilding pirate sporting the skull-and-crossbones, after the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.

Iran is keen to test the Royal Navy’s resolve as it escorts UK-flagged commercial shipping through the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of a British warship said Wednesday.

An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the special U.N. agency for Palestinian “refugees” one year after the Trump administration suspended a $125 million contribution to its work.

Islamic State terrorists should be brought to justice via a system of trials modelled on those used to convict Nazi leaders at Nuremberg in the immedate aftermath of World War II, according to a lead UN investigator.

An Australian school program is teaching young children about the boundaries for sexual consent by explaining they have the right to reject kisses and physical contact with their grandmother.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “familiarity” with Iran will help improve relations between the Islamic Republic and Britain,  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.

Democrats flicked the switch to hyperbolic outrage Sunday as they struggled to outdo each other in condemning President Trump for calling Rep. Elijah Cummings a “brutal bully” to border patrol officials and suggesting he should help fix the city of Baltimore.

A Royal Navy warship has arrived in the Persian Gulf ready to accompany British-flagged ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz in the latest escalation of regional tensions after Iran seized a British tanker this month.

Israel and the United States successfully tested a joint ballistic missile interceptor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said delivers protection against potential threats from Iran.

Iran on Sunday slammed as “hostile” a UK push for a European-led naval mission to escort tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, amid heightened tensions over the seizure of foreign-flagged vessels.

“Sooner not later” is the mantra for Australia seeking to trade with the UK in a post-Brexit world, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying he wants a deal done within weeks of Britain exiting EU trade restrictions.

The late chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano was assassinated in a covert, joint operation by Israel and the U.S., a report distributed by the semi-official Iran Tasnim news agency claims.

Iran’s main media outlets could not get enough of new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, delivering saturation coverage of the man they claim is a new incarnation of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A large British-flagged tanker has transited the Strait of Hormuz accompanied by a Royal Navy frigate in the first such passage since Iran seized a U.K.-flagged vessel last week.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took time to sing for lawmakers and guests at the Batasang Pambansa on Monday after he delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address.

Professional U.S. seabed explorers and the French navy have located a submarine that’s been missing for more than 50 years, ending decades of pain for bereaved families after the vessel was lost along with its 52-man crew.

Iran is equipped with sophisticated, long range intercontinental drones now being used to monitor U.S. shipping in the Indian Ocean, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi claimed on Tuesday.