There was outrage Sunday after French authorities confirmed they had detained Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the social media platform and messaging application Telegram.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday there had been another terrorist attack against the Jewish community that left one police officer injured following an explosion outside a synagogue.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight others.

In a warning to Moscow, Ukraine’s president visited the area where his troops entered Russia. Yet Ukraine also suffers from deadly setbacks in the ongoing armed conflict. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was on his first visit to the Sumy region since his forces launched an offensive from there into Russian territory more than two weeks ago.

Indonesia’s parliament shelved plans to overturn a top court ruling on voting procedures after thousands protested and clashed with riot police in front of the legislature amid mounting concern about the status of democracy in the world’s largest Muslim nation.

The United States and China came close to a military confrontation Thursday as the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet received a Chinese warning when one of its warships passed through the Taiwan Strait, military officials said.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) unveiled a new instant payment system Monday, saying it will bolster the future of cashless payments in Switzerland.

Italian researchers have reopened the 600-year-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth that some believe was used to wrap the body of Jesus after his crucifixion.

The Netherlands has been shaken by political turmoil over revelations that Dutch government members knew about Ukraine’s involvement in blowing up Nord Stream pipelines transporting Russian natural gas to Europe, even before it happened. Information about the planned sabotage in September 2022 was shared by the Dutch secret service with the United States, officials say, which raised questions about former Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is due to become the secretary general of the NATO military alliance.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Ukraine had not informed Berlin about its August 6 shock incursion into Russia, and he defended his government’s decision to reduce military support for Kyiv by billions of euros.

The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin confirmed early Sunday that he had been killed in the Gaza Strip. He was 23.

At least five people, including three Israeli Arab tourists and two Egyptian hotel workers, have been injured after clashes near Egypt’s busiest border crossing with Israel, Egyptian and Israeli sources said Friday.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in a meeting with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and other defense officials, announced his intention to “expand the goals of the war” to include the safe return of residents who had evacuated from the north back to their homes.

Archaeologists excavating in the Old City of Jerusalem have uncovered an exceedingly rare, highly artistic 2,700 stone seal that was probably made by a local Judahite craftsman, World Israel News (WIN) reports.

While still engaged in a war with Hamas in Gaza, and battling Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday carried out a targeted drone strike in Syria and killed Firas Qasem, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) organization, who was reportedly on his way to attack Israel, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

The administration of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden still believes it can broker a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia before the November U.S. presidential election.

Israel carried out a major military operation in Northern Samaria on Wednesday, targeting the city of Jenin and adjacent areas. The operation, which involved both ground troops and airstrikes, led to the deaths of at least nine Palestinians.

The president of the United States has “absolute immunity” when acting in his core constitutional duties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision Monday.

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, for now at least, hospitals in Idaho can provide emergency abortions where the woman’s health is at serious risk. The court declined to rule at this time on the wider issue of whether abortions in medical emergencies can generally be carried nationwide.

In a move that has drawn condemnation from supporters of the separation of church and state, Oklahoma’s conservative Education Superintendent last week ordered all public schools in the state to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12, with immediate effect, the Associated Press reports.

Eight men from Tajikistan are in U.S. custody after concerns the men were plotting a possible terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, American officials said.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department improperly charged a Jan. 6 protester with obstructing the Electoral College count stating the law was applied too broadly. This decision could benefit hundreds of other protesters charged under the same statute and potentially former President Donald Trump.

Friends and foes expressed concern Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden was “losing” his high-stakes debate with former President Donald Trump.

A new coalition of pro-abortion groups has vowed to spend $100 million over the next decade to restore access to abortion across the United States. The amount comes on top of at least $165 million for pro-abortion campaigns allocated by three groups this election season, according to a Worthy News assessment.

Chinese Christian leader and veteran political dissident Zhu Yufu, 71, has arrived in the US for urgent cancer treatment after spending 16 years in prison in China, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A Christian convert in Somalia has been repeatedly brutally attacked by Muslim relatives demanding he return to Islam, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A teenage athlete from Brazil used American Sign Language (ASL) to honor God and share the Gospel with the world after winning a medal for skateboarding at the 2024 Paris Olympics at the weekend, CHVN Radio reports.

Christians in Iran are not expecting the country’s new president to improve the harsh persecution they face at the hands of the Iranian Islamic extremist regime, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

In a rare move of encouragement for Christians in India, the High Court of the south Indian state of Kerala ruled that two young adults can have the religion cited on their official documents changed from Hindu to Christian, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

American evangelist Greg Laurie, who came to faith in Christ during the American “Jesus Revolution” of the late 1960s-early 1970s, is again seeing thousands of people respond to the Gospel message and be baptized.

Officials in Laos are continuing to harass Christians by arresting them and then imprisoning them without charge for several weeks before releasing them. Amid intensifying persecution of Christians, the communist-led Buddhist-majority nation now ranks 21 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.