At least eight people were killed and 18 remained missing Sunday after a passenger ferry carrying 267 people capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, triggering a massive search-and-rescue operation.

Spain was seeking additional European Union help Sunday as thousands of migrants remained stranded in its North African enclave of Ceuta, a month after an unprecedented mass crossing from Morocco in which at least 96 people were confirmed dead.

Iceland will remain outside the European Union for now after voters rejected restarting membership negotiations with Brussels, choosing greater national control despite growing geopolitical uncertainty in the North Atlantic.

Hungary’s new government of Prime Minister Péter Magyar was racing Sunday to complete rule-of-law and anti-corruption reforms ahead of a crucial Monday deadline that could unlock 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) in European Union recovery funding blocked during the Viktor Orbán era.

President Donald Trump said the United States has reached a major oil agreement with Venezuela that would give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the South American nation’s proven oil reserves, a move the administration is presenting as a breakthrough for U.S. energy security and long-term gasoline prices.

U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island in the first known U.S. military action against Iran in more than a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate with ballistic missiles against U.S. bases in Jordan.

A massive manhunt was underway Sunday after a 22-year-old woman was killed and five people injured, some seriously, in an overnight shooting at a rave in the Swiss town of Aarau, police said.

Scores of people have been killed after a Russian drone strike on a warehouse near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, triggered a massive detonation, authorities say. The tragedy comes as Moscow’s aerial attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region continued for a third consecutive day.

Taiwan’s parliament approved a nearly $7.6 billion plan Thursday to expand the island’s military drone and other unmanned systems as it prepares for a potential Chinese attack.

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general who became feared as the “Butcher of the Balkans” after his forces besieged the Bosnian capital in the 1990s and carried out Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, has died. He was 84.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others were kidnapped after armed gangs stormed the hilltop community of Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital, in one of the latest brutal attacks to shake the country’s collapsing security landscape.

Authorities in Belarus have launched criminal cases against two Christian religious freedom defenders living abroad and are seeking their arrest and return through Russia’s federal arrest system, rights activists confirmed.

A young Christian cable technician was recovering Wednesday in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, where he was allegedly abducted, physically assaulted, and threatened at gunpoint in an attempt to force him to abandon his Christian faith.

Families of people they say were prosecuted in Pakistan on fabricated blasphemy charges are demanding legal action against an alleged “blasphemy business gang” accused of using young women to lure men into online honey traps before implicating them in offenses against Islam.

Concerns remained Monday over Christian leader Dedi Saputra after a court in Indonesia’s Aceh Province sentenced the convert from Islam to two years in prison for an online video deemed insulting to Islam’s prophet Muhammad.

Residents discovered the body of a murdered Christian teenager in Pakistan’s Punjab province after authorities detained police suspects in the case, Christian investigators told Worthy News on Monday.

Concern was mounting Monday about a Christian in northwestern China who was detained for listening to the Bible stored on a USB memory stick plugged into his car’s audio system, amid a wider crackdown on Christian activities in the Communist-run nation, Christian sources said.