A U.S.-brokered truce between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan was violated just hours after the truce began, residents observed.

European leaders visited Kyiv on Saturday to discuss the road toward peace between Ukraine and Russia, and to remember the fallen soldiers. Their visit came a day after Russia remembered the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.

China’s and Russia’s leaders deepened their partnership in Moscow where a massive military parade recalled the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.

India has accused Pakistan’s army of attacking three of its military bases with drones and missiles, a day after dozens of people were reportedly killed by Indian strikes in Pakistan.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, who has come under fire from influential supporters of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, echoes sentiments of his predecessor saying “the [Catholic] Church should be judged by the holiness of its members, and not the grandeur of her buildings.”

Friedrich Merz began his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor on Wednesday despite being a politically wounded and weakened leader after failing to win enough parliamentary support in a first vote on Tuesday, which shocked the country’s political establishment.

Satellite images obtained exclusively by Fox News reveal what an Iranian opposition group claims is a previously undisclosed nuclear weapons facility in Iran’s Semnan Province. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) asserts that the site, covering nearly 2,500 acres, has been operating for over a decade under the guise of a chemical production company named Diba Energy Siba.

The United States is no longer requiring Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progressing civil nuclear cooperation talks, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. This shift comes ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the kingdom next week.

US President Donald Trump delivered a blunt ultimatum to Iran on Wednesday, warning that Tehran must either dismantle its nuclear facilities peacefully or brace for a forceful response.

Global debt rose by $7.5 trillion in the first quarter of 2025 to a record $324 trillion, driven by debt accumulation in China, France, and Germany, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

Israel said Saturday it targeted the Hamas leadership in an attack in southern Gaza that killed at least 90 people, including children, according to Hamas-linked officials.

Israel was anxiously anticipating the arrival of desperately needed American ammunition on Thursday after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration ordered the release of around half the heavy bombs it held up due to worries over civilian casualties during Israel’s military action in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

The U.S. military’s humanitarian pier off the coast of wartorn Gaza will close, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration confirmed Thursday, following an outcry over the $230 million project.

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that most fighters of Hamas have been killed or injured since the “terrorist group” invaded the Jewish nation last year, massacring some 1,200 people and injuring many others.

Two people were killed when Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at the Golan Heights on Tuesday in retaliation for the killing of the ex-bodyguard of its leader in an Israeli strike, Israeli police said.

Top US officials are in Cairo with senior Israeli and Egyptian security officials to discuss a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the release of around 120 hostages taken by Hamas from Israel to Gaza during the October 7 massacre, Axios reports.

Israel’s military announced Tuesday that it had “eliminated dozens of terrorists” and found “numerous weapons” after the reinvasion of Gaza City after it entered Shejaia, a neighborhood in the eastern portion of the area, where it also killed “numerous terrorists and located weapons such as “sniper gear, grenades, and AK-47 assault rifles” in tunnels and above ground.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz spent their first full day as running mates, vying for attention with ex-President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, who was also in the area.

In an important victory for federal authorities taking on Big Tech market control, a district judge in Washington DC has ruled that Google violated antitrust law by creating an illegal monopoly to become the world’s default search engine, Reuters reports.

Five states declared a state of emergency in response to Tropical Storm Debby, which brought record-setting rain to some of America’s most historic Southern cities. The storm was expected to cause prolonged downpours and flooding throughout Tuesday, prompting the rescue of hundreds from flooded homes.

Tensions rose Saturday after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases.

Two illegal Jordanian migrants who were charged with illegally entering the Marine Corps Base in Quantico in May were released from federal custody after posting bail, according to the NY Post.

The United States Senate on Tuesday (July 30) voted overwhelmingly to approve bipartisan legislation intended to protect children from dangerous online content and hold tech companies to better account for harm suffered by minors on the internet, CBS News reports.

The US national debt has officially surpassed a massive $35 trillion, having increased by nearly $5 billion every day so far in 2025, Yahoo Finance reports.
The debt increased by nearly $8 trillion during the Republican administration of former President Donald Trump and is set to see a similar rise under the Democratic administration of current President Joe Biden.