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A Saudi Arabian investment fund wants to buy an English soccer club, Newcastle United. Some fans have welcomed the move — but human rights groups want it stopped.

Three Iranian vessels tried to block a commercial oil tanker on Wednesday before a British warship forced them back, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry.

President Trump said Alexander Acosta has done a good job leading the Labor Department but will look into his involvement in a decade-old plea agreement with the financier accused of sex trafficking.

A U.S. judge issued a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration's policy requiring most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ricardo Rosselló will resign the office effective Aug. 2. He made the announcement in a recorded address posted online, as thousands of protesters packed the streets outside his executive residence.

"There's a joke going around that once the quarantine ends, everyone's going to be like a thousand times better," says one college esports competitor.

The lawmakers demanded Thursday that European Union leaders punish Hungary's government for using the COVID-19 pandemic to grab power via a new law allowing the prime minister to rule by decree.

"I hope she's not very heavy-handed with the sword, because by then I might be rather a poor old weak soul," the World War II veteran said of a possible knighthood ceremony with Queen Elizabeth II.

The head of the World Health Organization had called the island nation "a global exemplar" for its success in controlling the virus. Four new cases emerge after 101 days with none.

"May God protect Lebanon," Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab said as he announced his resignation days after a disastrous explosion rocked Beirut.