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.

Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaçi and three other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) say they are preparing to challenge their war-crimes convictions by a special court in the Dutch city of The Hague.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s decision to invite his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami in December has triggered concern and criticism among European allies as Russia’s war against Ukraine continues.

As President Donald Trump presses Chinese leader Xi Jinping over trade, security and Iran, customs records analyzed by The Wall Street Journal show Chinese suppliers sent roughly 1,300 shipments of dual-use components to Iran’s Defense Ministry during the first half of 2026—an expanding air-cargo pipeline that raises serious questions about Beijing’s conduct.

President Donald Trump personally welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday evening, beginning a three-day state visit expected to focus on some of the most consequential disputes between the world’s two largest economies — including Iran, artificial intelligence, trade, Taiwan and energy.

Residents in Ukraine’s capital were awakened Thursday as Russia pounded Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least two people, including one in a parking lot beside a damaged maternity hospital, Ukrainian authorities said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned French-British businessman Martin Ryan, who was serving a 10-year prison sentence on espionage charges, a day after a French push to have a Russian-Uzbek billionaire removed from the European Union’s sanctions list.

The Trump administration formally removed Syria from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism on Monday, ending a designation that had been in place since 1979 and opening the door for broader foreign investment and Syria’s reintegration into the international financial system.

Mossad chief Roman Gofman reportedly met Sunday with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in a U.S.-mediated effort to calm rising tensions after Israel’s recent airstrike on the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria.

Israel observed Shabbat on Saturday amid fresh diplomatic tensions with the European Union and several Western nations over plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, known biblically as Judea and Samaria, and a separate dispute over a deadly Israeli strike on an aid convoy in Gaza.

Israel’s High Court of Justice has unanimously overturned the government’s decision to close the influential Army Radio after 75 years, ruling that ministers acted at least partly on “improper and invalid” political considerations because they objected to the station’s broadcasts.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jared Kushner that Israel remains firmly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state, making the position “very clear” during a meeting this week with the Trump adviser, according to a senior Israeli official cited by JNS.

Israel has warned Syria not to allow Turkey to establish a deeper military foothold inside the country, escalating a growing diplomatic confrontation between Jerusalem and Ankara after an Israeli strike on the Abu al-Duhur military air base in northern Syria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blunt warning to Turkey on Wednesday after Israel struck a Syrian military airbase that Jerusalem says Ankara was preparing to use for an expanded military presence in Syria.

The U.S. Army is moving ahead with plans to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, part of a $2.2 billion energy-security push aimed at keeping critical bases powered even if outside electric grids are disrupted.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” adding a symbolic but sharp new twist to a growing trade war between the United States and Canada.

The U.S. Supreme Court is again being asked to step into the national fight over whether states may require the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms, as new challenges from Louisiana and Texas push the issue toward a potentially major First Amendment showdown.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday declaring a national emergency aimed at protecting the U.S. bulk-power system from foreign-made equipment that the White House says could expose America’s electric grid to cyber intrusion, sabotage, or supply-chain disruption.

America was mourning Wednesday after U.S. President Donald J. Trump ordered flags lowered across the nation following the death of Dolly Parton, the Christian country music legend, songwriter and entertainer who died Tuesday at age 80.

The U.S. Navy has unveiled testing of the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile, known as “Malice,” a next-generation weapon designed to give American carrier aircraft greater reach against advanced aerial threats.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests rose sharply in July, reaching 49,571 — the highest monthly total reported so far in President Donald Trump’s second term, according to government data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley, and analyzed by The Associated Press.

Iraq’s highest appellate court has ordered authorities to recognize a woman’s Christian faith in state records rather than the Muslim designation forced on her under Iraqi law.

Egyptian authorities have executed the man convicted of murdering a Coptic Orthodox priest, bringing to a close a case that shocked Egypt’s Christian community more than four years after the fatal attack, Worthy News learned Tuesday

British businessman Samuel Leeds has pledged to fund legal representation for Christian street preachers who face police action for publicly sharing their faith.

Seven Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment following accusations that they used a child’s birthday party to conduct unlawful religious conversions.

Christians in Nigeria were mourning Wednesday after dozens of believers were killed in coordinated attacks on villages in the country’s northwestern Kaduna State, with local monitors warning the death toll may exceed 60.

Three Christian men who were detained in Pakistan for allegedly “desecrating” the Quran, viewed by Muslims as holy, have been released after police and authorities concluded the allegation “stemmed from a personal dispute rather than an act of blasphemy,” Christian advocates told Worthy News Wednesday.

The United States has condemned the “horrific killing” of nine relatives of Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, a Nigerian pastor whose earlier appeal warned that “fear has become a way of life” in Nigeria’s violence-plagued Plateau State.