Saudi Arabia has resumed oil exports through its strategic East-West Pipeline after repairing damage from drone attacks earlier this month, restoring a critical route that allows Saudi crude to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Hungary’s parliament has lifted the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers who served under his predecessor, Viktor Orbán, clearing the way for criminal investigations ranging from alleged theft to corruption involving tens of millions of dollars.

Pope Leo XIV appeared to condemn French euthanasia legislation during a four-day visit to France, calling medically assisted dying “false compassion,” while also warning about artificial intelligence (AI) and confronting the sexual abuse of hundreds of thousands of children within France’s Catholic Church.

Hungary’s parliament has lifted the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers who served under his predecessor, Viktor Orbán, clearing the way for criminal investigations ranging from alleged theft to corruption involving tens of millions of dollars.

British counterterrorism police arrested five men Sunday near RAF Fairford on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack close to the strategically important air base used by U.S. forces in operations against Iran.

Saudi Arabia issued emergency warnings for Mecca and several other cities amid a potential missile or drone threat, as military chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey convened urgent talks to strengthen their collective defense against escalating attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis.

As communities were grieving, South African police hunted suspects Sunday following two separate shootings that killed 27 people within hours of each other, just days after another mass shooting left 11 dead.

Diplomatic relations between Hungary and neighboring war-torn Ukraine have again deteriorated, though Budapest called the current standoff a “cold peace, not a cold war.”

Moldova began imposing a 60-day state of emergency Saturday on its energy and water sectors due to severely low water levels on the Dniester River and global armed conflicts that are driving up its energy costs. Yet the nation, wedged between war-torn Ukraine and Romania, won’t join the NATO military alliance, Prime Minister Vasile Tofan announced.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump Thursday that the United States and China must avoid military confrontation, arguing that the world’s two largest economies can compete without allowing their rivalry to spiral into war.

Israel’s military is raising its readiness level amid growing concern over Turkish naval movements in the eastern Mediterranean, as tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara continue to sharpen over Syria, Gaza, and Turkey’s expanding regional posture.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on Muslim nations to close ranks against the United States and Israel, describing them as the “sworn enemies” of Muslim unity and urging regional leaders to identify and confront what he called their “real enemy.”

Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the U.N. Security Council that Hamas has not yet carried out its pledge to disarm, warning that continued weapons activity, tunnel operations, and obstruction inside Gaza are threatening to derail the U.S.-backed peace framework.

The United States has designated Palestine Action, a British-founded anti-Israel activist group, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization, freezing any U.S.-linked assets and barring Americans from doing business with the group.

A U.S. foreign-aid watchdog has referred more than 100 current and former UNRWA employees for possible suspension or debarment after finding evidence tying them to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre in Israel and/or affiliation with Hamas’s military wing.

Israel issued a sharp warning to Syria and Turkey from the heights of Mount Hermon this week, declaring that the Israel Defense Forces will remain in key positions overlooking southern Syria as long as threats continue to gather near Israel’s northern border.

The State Department is preparing to send American diplomats back to several U.S. embassies across the Middle East, signaling that Washington believes the immediate threat from the recent Iran conflict has eased, according to reports citing an internal State Department document.

A 32-year-old Bank of America vice president has been identified as the woman killed in an apparently random stabbing attack in New York City’s Times Square that also wounded a 68-year-old man.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term government funding bill Tuesday, sending the measure to President Donald Trump’s desk and averting the immediate threat of a federal shutdown before the November midterm elections.

New York City police say they have shot and killed a female suspect who allegedly stabbed two people in Times Square on Monday, including one woman who died of her injuries.

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to intensify voter-fraud investigations in nine states ahead of the midterm elections, according to a Newsmax report citing federal guidance.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to resume above-ground construction of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, lifting a lower-court order that had halted much of the project.

Newly released memos from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul have renewed scrutiny of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of government communications during the COVID-19 era, with documents cited by Just the News alleging that Fauci instructed aides on multiple occasions to delete emails after reading them.

A federal judge in California ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot use immigration law to revoke visas or pursue deportation against lawfully present noncitizens solely over protected political speech, handing a legal setback to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s effort to remove foreign students accused of anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian activism.

A Vietnamese court has sentenced Montagnard Protestant pastor Y Nuen Ayun to seven and a half years in prison on charges of “undermining the national unity policy,” trial observers told Worthy News on Monday.

Archaeologists in modern-day Turkey have uncovered remains of an ancient church believed to be connected to the historic site where the First Council of Nicaea was held in A.D. 325, drawing fresh attention to one of the most consequential turning points in the history of Christianity.

Pakistani Christians said Sunday they remain concerned about violence triggered by false blasphemy accusations despite a sharp decline in registered cases following a government and military crackdown on hardline Islamist groups.

Two Christians, including a young man and a father of four, have been killed in separate attacks in Pakistan, highlighting growing concern about violence and discrimination facing the Christian minority in the Islamic nation, well-informed sources told Worthy News on Sunday.

A Christian pastor and six others have been executed in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains after being arrested by an armed faction, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).

The Trump administration is pressing Egypt to protect religious freedom amid mounting concerns over attacks, imprisonment and discrimination targeting the country’s large Christian community, including converts from Islam and members of the ancient Coptic Church.

A family remains in “deep pain” after a suspect was detained in connection with the killing of a Scottish missionary in Athens, Greece, Worthy News learned Friday.