A dispute over one of Indonesia’s largest gold mines has become a symbol of President Prabowo Subianto’s drive for greater state control over the country’s vast natural resources and unease among international investors.

Two Iranian nationals accused of plotting a terrorist attack against Britain’s Jewish community have been remanded in custody after prosecutors said they surveyed Jewish sites and planned to use a homemade explosive device.

Several countries around the Mediterranean have been battered by deadly flooding caused by heavy rain for days, with record-breaking rainfall inundating parts of Spain’s Catalonia region.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander has described as “painful and confronting” the findings of a major investigation revealing that his House of Orange-Nassau was closely and willingly involved in centuries of colonialism and slavery. However, researchers concluded that the royal family did not play a leading role in the Dutch colonial empire.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has used his final German Unity Day address to warn that the country’s democracy is “being challenged anew,” expressing alarm about right-wing extremists seeking to erase the memory of Holocaust victims.

The Philippines and China moved closer to military confrontation after Manila deployed one of its largest Coast Guard vessels and an aircraft to challenge a Chinese research ship.

U.S. and French authorities have dismantled an international financing network accused of raising millions of dollars for Hamas while presenting fundraising campaigns to donors as humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Justice Department and Treasury Department.

The European Union’s energy task force was to weigh its options Friday after U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s administration told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel reserves to help ease soaring global fuel prices or face a potential U.S. diesel export ban.

Russia announced Thursday it would expel Hungarian diplomats in retaliation for Budapest’s decision last month to order 10 Russian diplomats out of Hungary over alleged espionage, further straining relations between the two countries.

Ukraine has used a domestically produced ballistic missile in combat for the first time, marking a significant expansion of Kyiv’s ability to strike heavily defended Russian targets with weapons built inside Ukraine.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Wednesday that Iran could face another major Israeli attack, declaring during a visit to Mount Hermon that Jerusalem remains prepared to strike again if Tehran renews threats against the Jewish state.

Israel’s population has reached an estimated 10.305 million people ahead of Rosh Hashanah, growing by approximately 124,000 during the past year, according to new figures released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

France says it will begin the process of banning products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, as European governments increase economic pressure on Israel over the expansion of Jewish communities and violence between Jewish settlers and Palestinians.

Israeli security authorities are warning of an elevated terrorist threat against Israelis and Jewish communities as the nation approaches the High Holy Days, beginning with Rosh Hashanah on Friday evening and continuing through Yom Kippur later this month.

Britain announced a ban on imports from Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, on Tuesday, September 8, prompting Israel to announce the closure of Britain’s Jerusalem consulate and its exclusion from a U.S.-led Gaza coordination mission.

The Israel Defense Forces launched an unannounced nationwide military exercise Sunday, testing Israel’s ability to respond to a sudden, large-scale war erupting simultaneously on multiple fronts as the Jewish High Holidays approach.

Israel struck Hezbollah positions across southern Lebanon overnight Sunday after the Iranian-backed terrorist organization launched two explosive drones at Israeli troops operating near the strategic Ali al-Taher Ridge, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday.

Jonathan Cahn, the bestselling Messianic Jewish rabbi and author, has stated that he was the previously unidentified passenger who was the target of a violent incident on American Airlines Flight 618, adding that the confrontation involved an explicit antisemitic threat, attacks on his faith, and a physical struggle which in the end led to the flight being diverted to Baltimore.

Republicans will converge on Dallas Wednesday and Thursday for the party’s first-ever midterm convention, an unprecedented gathering designed to energize conservative voters as President Donald Trump and the GOP battle to retain control of Congress in November.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Dec. 2 in a potentially landmark Second Amendment case that could determine whether state and local governments may prohibit Americans from possessing AR-15-style rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms.

Drone activity along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has fallen by roughly 75% since the U.S. military began using a high-energy laser weapon to destroy suspicious unmanned aircraft, military officials told CBS News.

The federal workforce has fallen sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office, with newly released government data showing federal employment down approximately 11.2% since January 2025.

At least five people died when an Amazon Prime Air cargo flight overran a runway and crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, local officials said.

The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, dramatically exceeding economists’ forecasts and delivering the strongest sign in months that the American labor market remains resilient. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%.

New evidence has emerged suggesting that this week’s massacre of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau State was part of coordinated attacks on several predominantly Christian communities, as questions mounted over why security forces allegedly failed to intervene despite advance warnings.

Kevin Rideout, an American Christian missionary who spent more than nine months in captivity after being abducted by suspected Islamic militants in Niger, and his wife thanked believers for their prayers after they were reunited.

Egyptian archaeologists say new discoveries in northeastern Egypt may help identify a long-lost ancient city that stood along one of the most important military roads of the ancient world — a route many scholars have connected to the biblical account of the Exodus.

Pakistani Christians have expressed concern after Pakistan’s Supreme Court released details of its decision to acquit the last three men sentenced to death over the 2014 mob killing of a Christian couple who were beaten and burned alive in a brick kiln following blasphemy allegations.

The United States government passed a sobering milestone Wednesday as the national debt topped $40 trillion, up from $39 trillion only five months ago.

More evidence has emerged of massacres targeting predominantly Christian communities in central Nigeria, with local officials saying at least 25 people were killed in an overnight attack on a village in Plateau State.

A prominent house church pastor and six other Christians have disappeared after being detained by police in Wenzhou, a major Christian center in eastern China often called the “Jerusalem of China.”