Ecuador’s reelected President, Daniel Noboa, started his first full day of another term Sunday after pledging to combat rampant corruption and drug trafficking in the South American nation.

Authorities in Ukraine say Russia has launched a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv, injuring 15 people. It is seen as one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the war began over three years ago.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced a 50% tariff on all European Union imports to the United States from June 1 and said a potential 25% smartphone charge would apply to all foreign-made devices.

Germany’s recently elected chancellor has expressed his shock over Friday’s knife attack at the central railway station in the German city of Hamburg that injured more than a dozen people.

Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Chinese president Xi Jinping to back efforts to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine amid concerns about China’s cooperation with Russia.

Russia and Ukraine have begun one of the largest prisoner exchanges in their three-year war after the first direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv delegates in more than three years.

Some 80 people have been arrested across various European nations in a major international police operation against illegal art trade, officials said Friday.

The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group executed what officials are calling the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” launched from an aircraft carrier, dropping 125,000 pounds of munitions in recent operations over Somalia, according to Adm. James Kilby, the Navy’s acting chief of operations.

German archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a landmark discovery in Iraq that is reshaping our understanding of the ancient Assyrian Empire. While excavating the ruins of Nineveh—once the empire’s capital and famously the setting of the biblical story of Jonah—a team uncovered a monumental relief depicting King Assurbanipal flanked by the major deities Assur and Ištar.

Romania’s Constitutional Court has “unanimously” rejected an application by George Simion, the defeated nationalist candidate in Sunday’s presidential election rerun, to declare the vote invalid on the grounds of “foreign interference.”

Hezbollah, the Iranian backed Lebanese terrorist organization, launched a series of drone and rocket attacks on Israel Tuesday, warning that the main retaliation for Israel’s assassinations of terrorist leaders was still to come.

Israel was anticipating an imminent massive attack by Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah on Tuesday following warnings by the United States.

Israel is on high alert following the assassination of key terrorist leaders last week, facing escalating tensions with Iran and its proxies. Despite efforts by the US and Arab nations to de-escalate, Iran has threatened attacks on Israel, raising the possibility of a broader conflict. Amid these tensions, rumors from world leaders indicate that a retaliatory strike may take place over the next 24 hours.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Sunday that they have discovered an unusually large tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border. The tunnel, which is about 10 feet tall, is big enough to allow vehicles to pass through.

The United Nations announced on Monday that nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) are suspected of involvement in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and will be fired from their positions.

Israel faced even more security challenges Monday after fresh confirmation that Turkey has blocked cooperation between the NATO military alliance and the Jewish nation.

Israel and the U.S. are bracing for a potential Iranian retaliatory strike on Israel as soon as this weekend, with Israel’s military on high alert and the Pentagon deploying military assets to counter any attacks from Iran and its terrorist proxy groups.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, said on Monday he wouldn’t be voting for a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government, saying any debate or perceived fight over funding issues between Republicans and Democrats is “political theater.”

In another policy reversal, Vice President Kamala Harris says she now supports building a border wall after she and President Joe Biden opposed doing so for nearly four years and she vehemently opposed it while she was a U.S. senator.

The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a management alert to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make it aware of an urgent issue: ICE is incapable of monitoring hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children (UACs) released into the country by the Biden-Harris administration.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to use the state’s taxpayer funded home down payment equity exchange program that would have provided up to $150,000 to qualifying illegal immigrant homebuyers. Newsom’s veto cited the program’s “finite funding,” which received no money this year and ran out of funding in 11 days last year, and the state’s budget situation, which required the cutting, shifting, and deferral of spending by $47 billion this year.

Following a recent surge in imports, the US trade deficit reached its highest level in over two years, Reuters reports. Countries incur a trade deficit when the value of their imports is higher than the value of their exports.

A Christian school in Vermont that was banned from local sporting activities for refusing to play against teams with transgender athletes on them has filed an appeal after being told by a lower court that the ban will remain in place, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

A federal appeals court sided with Elon Musk and X Corporation against a California law requiring companies to report and create definitions for a wide variety of speech violations, finding the law violates the First Amendment by unlawfully compelling companies to provide opinions on contentious matters, including defining what hate speech or misinformation is.