Billionaire Elon Musk has accused powerful business leaders in India of blocking his Starlink satellite internet service to protect their dominance of the country’s telecommunications market, prompting a sharp rejection from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

Bulgarian authorities have ended their search for the missing crew of a cargo ship that sank in the Black Sea after being struck in an apparent drone attack, with Bulgarian public broadcaster BNT reporting that 12 Syrian sailors were aboard.

The Pentagon has directed U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to finalize preparations for possible large-scale military strikes against Iran as President Donald Trump considers resuming major combat operations amid stalled nuclear negotiations and escalating tensions across the Middle East.

Russian authorities have denied reports of a possible plague outbreak at a Siberian research facility following the death of a laboratory worker, even as the World Health Organization (WHO) seeks answers about a second employee reportedly suffering from an unexplained illness.

President Donald Trump weighed in on France’s rapidly escalating unrest Tuesday, arguing that the violence sweeping the country reflects a much deeper crisis than deteriorating schools and education funding — pointing instead to mass immigration and the growing influence of Islam in Europe.

The Indonesian government has banned the scheduled concert by American Gospel singer Israel Houghton and his band, Israel & New Breed, which was set to take place in Jakarta on October 24, citing security concerns and his perceived support for Israel.

Concerns about an expanding confrontation between Russia and the NATO military alliance mounted Tuesday after air and sea drones struck two merchant ships in the Black Sea economic zone of NATO member Bulgaria, sinking one vessel and setting another ablaze.

A debate over who has the right to live or die has re-emerged in the Netherlands after doctors ended the life of a severely disabled child who was not yet 2 years old.

Voters in two European nations shaped by tensions involving Russia and the war in Ukraine went to the polls this weekend, with Latvia’s pro-Ukraine prime minister scoring a historic victory while Bosnia awaited results from elections that could influence its troubled path toward the European Union.

Russia pledged Sunday to intensify strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to increase attacks on Russian oil refineries.

Senior military commanders from Israel, the United States and seven Arab nations met privately in Germany last week to discuss Iran and the widening security crisis across the Middle East, according to reports published Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York next week to address the United Nations General Assembly, refusing to surrender one of the world’s most important diplomatic platforms to political threats and expected street protests.

President Donald Trump says Hamas is willing to give up its weapons, offering a hopeful assessment of American efforts to demilitarize the Gaza Strip and move the devastated territory toward reconstruction and civilian government.

Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors are expected to meet at the State Department next week to discuss the continued implementation of a U.S.-brokered security framework.

The Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday that it killed a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, massacre and took part in the killing of a senior Israeli military commander.

Israeli researchers have developed an innovative plant-based “super sponge” capable of rapidly absorbing massive amounts of oil while also helping naturally occurring bacteria break down the pollution.

A record 68,944 Jewish visitors ascended the Temple Mount during the Hebrew year 5786, continuing a steady rise in Jewish visitation to Judaism’s holiest site despite months of closures and security restrictions.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance closed the Republican Party’s first-ever national midterm convention Thursday night with an urgent appeal for conservatives to turn out in November, capping a final evening that repeatedly returned to themes of faith, family, national renewal and what party leaders called a battle for America’s future.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again blocked Missouri from using a newly drawn Republican congressional map designed to strengthen the GOP’s position heading into the November midterm elections.

Under a banner declaring that America’s “Golden Age” has just begun, Republicans opened their first-ever national midterm convention Wednesday in Dallas, launching an unprecedented two-night gathering designed to showcase the party’s record, elevate candidates in key congressional races and mobilize voters ahead of the November elections.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans on Wednesday to make November’s congressional elections a defense of his agenda, arguing that border security, tax cuts and public safety depend on keeping his party in control of Congress.

The Justice Department has stepped into a major Supreme Court religious-liberty case, urging the justices to allow an Ohio man to pursue constitutional claims after local officials sought to stop him from hosting prayer gatherings in his private home.

Researchers inside one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are publicly sounding the alarm over advanced AI, warning that systems now under development could eventually become powerful enough to threaten humanity itself.

The United States is turning to cutting-edge nuclear fusion technology to help modernize and verify its nuclear weapons stockpile as Washington confronts an accelerating three-way strategic competition with China and Russia, according to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal.

A young Christian cable technician was recovering Wednesday in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, where he was allegedly abducted, physically assaulted, and threatened at gunpoint in an attempt to force him to abandon his Christian faith.

Families of people they say were prosecuted in Pakistan on fabricated blasphemy charges are demanding legal action against an alleged “blasphemy business gang” accused of using young women to lure men into online honey traps before implicating them in offenses against Islam.

Concerns remained Monday over Christian leader Dedi Saputra after a court in Indonesia’s Aceh Province sentenced the convert from Islam to two years in prison for an online video deemed insulting to Islam’s prophet Muhammad.

Residents discovered the body of a murdered Christian teenager in Pakistan’s Punjab province after authorities detained police suspects in the case, Christian investigators told Worthy News on Monday.

Concern was mounting Monday about a Christian in northwestern China who was detained for listening to the Bible stored on a USB memory stick plugged into his car’s audio system, amid a wider crackdown on Christian activities in the Communist-run nation, Christian sources said.

A young Christian man was recovering from extensive injuries Saturday after he was allegedly attacked by a group of Muslims for intervening when Christian women were being harassed in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Christian representatives said.

Sudanese Christians and their supporters used the United Nations’ annual “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief” on Saturday to condemn what they called a growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks against Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains.