Washington imposed sanctions on two entities based in China, accusing them supplying precursor chemicals to drug cartels in Mexico for the production of illicit fentanyl intended for the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily halted lower court rulings that set limits on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

European foreign policy officials on Friday urged China not to use force over Taiwan, taking a tough stance against Beijing’s threats over the democratically governed island, after comments by French President Emmanuel Macron were perceived as weak.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform will enter into force swiftly, officials said after it received the Constitutional Council’s approval despite months of street protests and strikes.

A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military intelligence records online was charged with unlawfully copying and transmitting classified material.

Ukrainian troops have been forced to withdraw from some parts of Bakhmut in the face of a renewed Russian assault on the ruined battlefield city, Britain said, with Moscow pressing to achieve a victory before Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive.

Britain should take action after a violent incident during protests outside India’s embassy in London last month, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told British counterpart Rishi Sunak.

Hours ahead of a visit to Hanoi by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the United States condemned Vietnam’s jailing of a prominent political activist.

U.S. President Joe Biden did not discuss the leak of intelligence documents with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when the two men met in Northern Ireland this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday.

The FBI on Thursday arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard, over the leaks online of classified documents that embarrassed Washington with allies around the world.

A raging industrial fire in eastern Indiana is expected to be almost entirely extinguished by Thursday evening or Friday morning, officials said, after days of thick smoke shut down schools and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate.

Torrential downpours inundated Southeast Florida, bringing total rainfall in the Fort Lauderdale region to more than two feet in recent days, with widespread flooding that blocked roads, closed schools and shut down an airport.