Forum: Advance travel warnings for worldwide regional locations

The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert about the ongoing possibility for violent demonstrations throughout Bahrain. In recent months, all...

Following multiple deaths in Vietnam and Cambodia, China has reported its second bird flu death in a month. While the flu was highly pathogenic, it...

In a manner of speaking, military rulers have lifted the 31-year-old emergency laws that gave police far-reaching powers. The emergency powers can...

Drug violence that has largely been contained to the border regions is beginning to spread to places once thought safe from the infamous carnage. Two...

January is one of the busier months for cruise enthusiasts, but this season travel agents have been fielding more questions regarding safety and...

High winds and heavy snowfall left many parts of the country isolated Jan. 7. The unusual amount of snow closed a major railway route in the western...

Heavy rain killed at least 28 people and left thousands more stranded throughout Southeastern Brazil. The rain caused deadly mudslides, which in turn...

The U.S. State Department issued another travel alert regarding the ongoing forest fires in Chile. This alert updates the Dec. 30 notice, and singles...

The Spring Festival travel rush is considered the world’s largest annual human migration. The festival, which begins Sunday and runs through Feb. 16,...

Despite a recent travel warning from the U.S. State Department, the Philippine government insists that the country is safe for tourists. In fact, the...

On Dec. 22, three U.S. citizens were killed on a bus while traveling for the holidays. According to a U.S. State Department official, gunmen attacked...

A series of strong earthquakes hit Christchurch on Friday, Dec. 23, reminding residents of the Feb. 22 earthquake that left nearly 200 dead and the...

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which is suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, has claimed a series of Christmas day bom***gs that left more...

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert regarding the recent flash flooding that has occurred in the Philippines. Traveling through or...

A young man was stabbed to death during a post-Christmas shopping rush on one of London’s busiest commercial streets. The man was attacked at the...

The U.S. State Department issued a travel warning citing the potential for civil unrest because several months of demonstrations have raised security...

Nearly ten months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan and caused the worst nuclear disaster in the world since Chernobyl, Japanese...

The death of North Korea’s enigmatic leader, Kim Jong Il, leaves in his place his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, a fair amount of uncertainty and a...

Not all news is bad news for Mexico. Tourism officials in Tapachula installed a clock to countdown to Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the Mayan calendar...

Flash floods in the southern Philippines killed at least 500 people and left thousands stranded. Washi, the tropical storm that set off the floods,...

The British Embassy in Bahrain was the target of a small bomb explosion, prompting the Bahraini government to provide additional security to foreign...

Though it has been nine months since the initial disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, new concerns have arisen about radioactive fallout....

A two-month state of emergency, which suspends certain constitutional rights such as freedom of assembly, association and circulation, and gives...

Protestors took to the streets in Moscow for two days of demonstrations Dec. 5-6, claiming that the Dec. 4 parliamentary election was corrupted....

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for the South Pacific regarding the coming cyclone season, which runs from December through...

The volcano Tungurahua spewed lava and rock Nov. 29, prompting the government to urge four villages to evacuate. Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute...

Kidnappings in the country dropped by 50 percent in 2011 compared with last year. Despite the sharp decline, there has been a surge in “express...

Tensions are once again high along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel, instigating rounds of artillery...

Islamic militants are believed to be behind a hotel bomb that killed 3 and left 27 injured in Zamboanga City in the troubled southern region of...

The name Chernobyl calls to mind the worst nuclear disaster in history, but in December managers at the nuclear power station hope to start a new...

A Malian parliament member said that three aid workers kidnapped in Algeria more than a week ago are now in Mali, being held by a faction of al-Qaida...

A diver from Texas was killed by a shark off the coast of Rottnest Island near Perth in Western Australia Oct. 22. The island’s beaches were closed...

After three days of heavy smog in Beijing, the U.S. Embassy rated the air pollution Oct. 31 as “hazardous,” the worst on its six-point scale, which...

After the Palestinians gained entry to UNESCO, Israel announced that it was speeding up the construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the...

At a time when England’s tourist numbers are dropping, Cambridge is considering measures to reduce tourism. Former Mayor and now Councilor John...

The country’s aviation sector has been hit hard in recent months by delays and cancellations due to customs protests and rolling industrial action by...

After more than a month’s worth of rain fell in one day Oct. 24, the worst flooding in decades hit Dublin, causing public transportation and other...

Thousands of people fled three remote towns in Zamboanga Sibugay province on Mindanao in the southern Philippines as the army continued its offensive...

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that flooding will last another four to six weeks, warning people in Bangkok to be prepared and descri***g...

The death toll following the deadly earthquake in eastern Turkey rose past 400 as rescuers continued to search for survivors amid rubble and debris....

Many Coptic Christians are speaking out against the military’s handling of the so-called transition to democracy after Egyptian troops killed at...

A leftist group calling themselves the “Hekla reception committee” has warned of attacks aimed at disrupting life in Berlin. An incendiary device...

Tensions are rising in Athens as new strikes are planned for mid-October in response to the government’s latest austerity measures. Alongside the...

The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) is asking members to vote in favor of an industrial day of action to coincide with a similar...

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert regarding Tunisia because of the potential for unrest. Spontaneous events such as demonstrations...

Those who consider savory dishes a staple of any good trip might find their wallets a little slimmer upon returning from Denmark, where the Danish...

Tourists and fishermen have been warned to stay away from the “Child of Krakatoa,” a volcano created by the same tectonic forces that led to the 1883...

Japan lifted some of the evacuation advisories surrounding the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant Sept. 30. A 12-mile no-go zone still surrounds the...

The U.S. State Department is warning citizens about traveling to the small African nation, particularly in the northern parts of the country, because...

After the killing of U.S.-Yemeni citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. State Department has issued a worldwide travel alert for American citizens due to...