Clashes erupted between New Zealand police and anti-vaccine protesters on Wednesday as officers armed with riot shields towed away vehicles and dismantled tents set up outside the country's Parliament grounds.
The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
U.S. President Joe Biden is prepared to deliver his state of the union address amid public disapproval of his handling of the economy and the pandemic, and U.S.-led efforts responding the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A fire broke out Tuesday in a shopping mall in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing 11 people and injuring seven others, the state-owned news agency said.
Speaking via video link to an emergency session of the European Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the EU on Tuesday to "prove that you are with us" in Ukraine's war with Russia, a day after Kyiv officially asked to join the bloc.
