French prosecutors on Wednesday freed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from police custody after four days of questioning over allegations that his social media platform and messaging application is being used for illegal activities in a case that high-profile critics said was about censoring content.

More than 31.8 million Nigerians, including Christians, are acutely short of food due to attacks by Islamic fighters and the removal of fuel subsidies, while deadly flooding also contributed to the crisis, Nigeria’s government and others said Tuesday.

U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed hope that a recent visit by India’s leader to Ukraine and Poland will help bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war as new attacks killed more people on Tuesday. The peace message by the White House came as rescue workers searched for survivors beneath the rubble in central Ukraine.

Investigations were underway in Pakistan Mondy after at least 37 people, including a dozen who were returning from a religious pilgrimage in Iraq, died Sunday in two unrelated bus crashes in Pakistan, officials said.

Much of Ukraine plunged into darkness Monday after its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said his nation suffered “one of the biggest combined strikes” of the war waged by Russia on Ukraine, killing and injuring numerous people.

Dozens of people were killed in southwestern Pakistan, where separatists and other Islamic terrorists attacked targets before the military responded.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday there was no political motive behind the arrest of Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of the social media platform and messaging application Telegram.

The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, has played a major role in exchanging 115 prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, Worthy News established Sunday.

A British man working for the Reuters news agency has been killed in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said on Sunday.

A 26-year-old Syrian, who shares the ideology of the Islamic State group, has turned himself in after allegedly killing three people and injuring eight others with a knife at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, prosecutors say.

Israeli authorities reported that over 100 rockets were launched at northern Israel on Wednesday by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization. In Kiryat Shmona, some of the rockets directly struck homes, sparking fires. Police and emergency teams quickly responded to the scene to provide assistance and assess the damage.

Under the newly formed United Kingdom government, led by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the UK has altered its policy toward Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza by prohibiting the export of certain weapons, announcing a ban on some arms export licenses to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare apology to the families of six Israeli hostages recently executed by Hamas in a press conference on Monday. He stressed the necessity of international pressure on Hamas and emphasized that Israel would retain its military presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a critical buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border, underscoring the strategic importance of the area.

Hamas has admitted to killing hostages it abducted in Israel on October 7.

Amid limited pauses in the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, the United Nations and World Health Organization have launched a three-day campaign to inoculate 640,000 Palestinian children under the age of 10 in Gaza against polio, the Associated Press reports.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recently completed a three-week-long operation in the southern Gaza Strip. During this operation, the military destroyed six kilometers of tunnels, eliminated over 250 terrorists, and recovered the bodies of twelve hostages over the past two weeks.

U.S. President Joe Biden and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that Israel’s military found six bodies of hostages in Gaza, where Hamas still holds more than 100 hostages.

Facing mounting pressure to step down in January, U.S. President Joe Biden sought prayer in one of Philadelphia’s biggest Black churches.

Whether faith-based groups are allowed to solely hire people that agree with their faith is a question again before the courts.

The chorus of Democratic voices calling for U.S. President Joe Biden to step aside and not run again in upcoming elections is growing from lawmakers to donors, strategists, and constituents.

Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the state can implement its new “heartbeat law” which bans abortion at six weeks gestation is constitutional and may take effect. The law had been temporarily blocked following a legal challenge by abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

The Biden administration has allowed more than 5 million immigrants to enter the United States, and an additional nearly 2 million immigrants have been detected attempting unauthorized entry into the country, according to a recently released Congressional report.

President Joe Biden continues to play defense after a disastrous debate performance last week with many in his own party calling for him to withdraw from the Democratic ticket.

The United States said Tuesday it would pay vaccine maker Moderna, known for COVID-19 jabs, $176 million to accelerate developing “a pandemic influenza vaccine” to treat bird flu in people.

Local Hindu leaders have forced more than 100 tribal Christians in eastern India’s Odisha state to undergo a formal ceremony symbolizing a rejection of Christianity and a return to Hinduism, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Prominent Nigerian evangelist and politician Joan Onyemaechi Mrakpor, who was abducted from her church in Nigeria’s Delta state on July 30, was found dead in a river on August 1, her body naked and showing signs of torture, the Gist Mania news outlet reports.

Authorities in Christian-majority Rwanda have closed more than 4,000 small churches in the last month, on the grounds they did not comply with health and safety regulations, BBC News reports.

A pastor in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state has been arrested by Hindu authorities who falsely accused him of bribing Hindus to become Christians, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Fulani jihadist herdsmen murdered two Christian farmers and severely wounded three others during attacks on Christian-owned farms in northern Nigeria last week, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

An evangelical Christian leader in Guizhou Province, China has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on unfounded charges of fraud and “inciting subversion of state power,” Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.

A newly Christian 19-year-old girl in Uganda was burned with a flat iron by her Muslim father after he learned she had left Islam, Morning Star News reports. Christianity is legal in Uganda but converts from Islam are vulnerable to violent attacks from Muslim extremist relatives if they choose to leave Islam for Jesus.