World News
Taiwan has told the incoming Trump administration it is interested in securing a massive $15 billion military weapons deal with the United States, the Financial Times reported exclusively on Tuesday (November 12).
Police say pro-Palestine protesters gathered on Amsterdam’s central Dam Square despite a protest ban following the first pogrom in the Netherlands against Jews since World War Two.
The CEO of Unbabel, a major translation service powered by artificial intelligence, has announced that human translators may not be required at all in three years, CNBC reports.
A Russian warship carrying Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles carried out drills in the English Channel earlier this month, Sky News reports. Russia began mass-producing Zircon missiles in 2023 in an effort to strengthen its nuclear weapons capability.
After four decades of developing chemical weapons for use against its enemies, Iran’s Islamic terror regime may now have supplied its proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, with pharmaceutical-based agents (PBAs) that attack a person’s central nervous system, the US’ Westpoint Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) warns in a new report.
China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday expressed outrage over a hit-and-run attack that killed at least 35 people at a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai.
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema survived calls for her resignation despite the Dutch capital’s fist pogrom against Jews since World War Two.
A United Nations General Assembly committee has adopted the U.N.’s first-ever resolution on the “responsible” military use of artificial intelligence (AI), Dutch and South Korean officials confirmed Monday.
Kyiv and Moscow expressed hope that the return of Donald J. Trump to the White House may speed up ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since the Second World War after Ukraine and Russia engaged in their most significant drone strikes in years.
Communist-run China is working on its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his army to prepare for war, several sources confirmed Tuesday.
Israel News
A CIA official was arrested in Cambodia and indicted on charges of violating the Espionage Act by leaking classified U.S. documents detailing Israel’s preparations for a retaliatory strike against Iran following a missile attack earlier this year, according to court records and a source familiar with the case.
In his second English-language video addressed to the Iranian people in recent months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Tuesday that a third Iranian attack on Israel would “simply cripple Iran’s economy.”
Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline for Israel to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has decided not to withhold weapons from Israel. This decision comes despite a warning from the White House a month ago, conveyed through a letter, that Israel had 30 days to improve conditions in Gaza or face a potential arms embargo.
Newly appointed Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar set the tone for his foreign policy stating that the prospect of a Palestinian State created today “would be tantamount to creating a Hamas state.”
Newly appointed Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated at his first meeting with the IDF General Staff Forum that Iran’s nuclear sites have become more vulnerable following Israel’s recent airstrikes in the operation “Days of Repentance” and hinted that now is the time to remove the Iranian ‘threat of annihilation.’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Sunday, after multiple phone calls with newly elected President-Elect Donald Trump, that they “see eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat in all its aspects.”
Israel’s secret service Mossad reportedly warned of a potential threat to Israelis and Jews in the Netherlands ahead of the soccer game Ajax against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam.
U.S. News
President-Elect Donald Trump announced that he would appoint John Radcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence (DNI), as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in his administration.
President-Elect Trump has called for a the end of censorship and called for Congress to pass a ‘digital bill of rights’ in order to restore freedom of speech to U.S. citizens.
Republicans have secured at least 219 seats in the House of Representatives and achieved a trifecta by winning the Presidency, and both chambers of Congress under the leadership of President-Elect Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. Elections.
President-elect Donald Trump and his advisors are formulating plans to deport illegal immigrants from the United States and exploring declaring a national emergency declaration that would allow the Trump administration to repurpose military assets to help Trump keep his campaign promise, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner Saturday night in Arizona, marking the final swing state for the Republican to collect in his landslide victory.
Iran ordered the assassination of Donald J. Trump, the staunchly pro-Israel former and future president, according to court documents unsealed Friday.
The US Sixth District Court of Appeals on November 1 ruled in favor of and awarded costs to a group of firefighters in California who were placed on “involuntary, unpaid leave” for failing to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates on religious grounds, CBN News reports.
Christian News
While Egypt’s Islamic government has recently taken steps toward improving relations with the Egyptian Christian community, three Christian men were hospitalized last week following an attack by Islamic extremists armed with knives and machetes in Minya province, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
Continuing the relentless murder of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state, Fulani jihadist herdsmen have murdered four Christians in less than three weeks, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A second Christian charged with blasphemy in Pakistan was released on bail pending trial last week after a court found there was no direct evidence in the three cases brought against him, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.
With headquarters in the US, the Africa Mission Association (AMA) works to unite churches in establishing new Africa-led and funded missions in all 54 African countries, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.
In an apparent effort to improve its relations with Egypt’s Christian community, the Islamic Egyptian government last month approved the legalization of 293 previously unlicensed churches and service buildings, All Arab News (AAN) reports.
More than 30 Sudanese Christian refugees were last month forced out of their temporary homes in Sudan’s River Nile state by Islamic residents who said they did not want Christians or black people in their neighborhood, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Authorities in China once again raided the Zion Church in Beijing last month, arresting 12 people and taking down the details of everyone in attendance as part of a crackdown on Christianity in the country, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.