Nine inmates and a two-year-old boy visiting his imprisoned father were killed in a riot at a prison in northwestern Mexico, authorities confirmed Friday.

German police arrested a 60-year-old man Friday after he allegedly shot dead two government employees who visited his home to check his firearms in the southern state of Bavaria, shocking a community where such violence is rare.

Malaysia closed schools across several states and its capital Friday as toxic smoke from Indonesian forest fires pushed air pollution to unhealthy levels, raising concerns about the health of millions of people across Southeast Asia.

Polish police deployed officers to some 10,000 schools and other educational institutions Friday and detained ten people over threats of further violence after two knife attacks left a school employee dead and several others injured, authorities said.

Tensions remained high across France on Friday after tens of thousands of students and supporters protested deteriorating schools and teacher shortages, amid clashes with police that have left more than 1,000 people injured since demonstrations began last month, according to government figures.

Spain is mourning an 87-year-old woman who became the face of the country’s housing crisis following her death in hospital, just weeks after being evicted from the apartment where she had lived for seven decades.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will not launch additional military strikes against Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, citing ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Tehran while maintaining Washington’s economic and military pressure on the Islamic Republic.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels intensified ballistic missile attacks against Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, on Thursday, disrupting international flights, threatening critical infrastructure, and raising fears of a broader regional war as fighting spreads toward Islam’s holiest cities.

The United States military has been instructed to prepare for resuming major combat operations against Iran, raising fears of another devastating armed confrontation in the Middle East as President Donald J. Trump considers new strikes ahead of crucial American and Israeli elections, several U.S. sources say.

At least 33 people have been killed and 18 others wounded in a Russian glide bomb attack near two passenger buses in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, authorities said Thursday, as escalating Russian strikes claim growing numbers of civilian lives.

The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to let Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas address next week’s gathering by video after the United States denied him a visa for the second year in a row. The measure passed 152–3, with four abstentions. The United States, Israel and Paraguay voted against it.

The United States will continue denying visas to Palestinian Authority officials and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a decision that will keep President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior Palestinian leaders from attending next week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York in person. It is the second year in a row that a Palestinian delegation has faced the restriction. The Associated Press reported that Abbas was among those affected.

Christians and Jews are due to gather Thursday on Amsterdam’s central Dam Square for a major pro-Israel rally, days before the Netherlands introduces a ban on trade in goods from Israeli settlements in territories it considers occupied.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would introduce two bills aimed at people who, in his words, slander Israeli soldiers abroad. One would allow citizenship to be revoked; the other would increase the damages they could face in a lawsuit.

Israel has reportedly begun supplying Saudi Arabia with intelligence on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement, with the United States serving as an intermediary between the two nations.

The IDF and Shin Bet announced Tuesday that they had killed Nael Abu Obeid, commander of Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, in a drone strike in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion munitions sale to Israel that would include 40,000 2,000-pound bombs, according to reports published Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has rejected calls to slow down the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), calling doomsday predictions a “hoax” despite warnings from technology executives and researchers that the rapidly advancing systems could eventually threaten humanity.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration joined Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and two counties Monday in suing the Trump administration over its revived “public charge” immigration rule.

President Donald Trump rejected calls for tighter artificial-intelligence safeguards Monday, arguing that America must remain ahead of China and that existing presidential authority provides sufficient oversight.

The United States has deployed space-control weapons in orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed Monday in an unusually direct acknowledgment of previously classified American capabilities.

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new requirements for mail-in ballots, handing the administration another legal setback weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

The Department of Homeland Security says Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 2,150 known or suspected terrorists in the United States between Jan. 20, 2025, and Sept. 9, 2026.

The United States and its allies are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attacks on American soil, which had worldwide implications ranging from wars to increased surveillance.

A new report suggests a surprising shift may be underway in Canada, where younger adults are showing stronger signs of religious interest than many expected after decades of national secular decline.

Christians and rights advocates in Pakistan have expressed mounting concern over reported deadly attacks, intimidation, abductions of girls and alleged forced conversions involving the nation’s Christian minority, with several incidents emerging across the Muslim-majority country.

The 41-year-old man who died after a large wooden sign fell at a major Christian festival in England was identified Sunday as Robert Guanco, a pastor at a church in the coastal town of Eastbourne.

Christians in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have held a memorial service for a veteran Baptist pastor and an associate reportedly killed by government troops amid an ongoing military crackdown, Worthy News learned Sunday.

A Christian-run school caring for hundreds of impoverished and orphaned children as young as 2 near Kenya’s largest garbage dump has been forced from its premises by local authorities, with many youngsters returning to the sprawling dumpsite, its director told Worthy News Saturday.

At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others were kidnapped after armed gangs stormed the hilltop community of Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital, in one of the latest brutal attacks to shake the country’s collapsing security landscape.

Authorities in Belarus have launched criminal cases against two Christian religious freedom defenders living abroad and are seeking their arrest and return through Russia’s federal arrest system, rights activists confirmed.