World News
President Donald Trump has discussed the possibility of resuming full-scale military strikes against Iran but has decided, for now, to continue pursuing diplomacy, according to U.S. officials cited in an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal.
Pakistan’s influential television channel Geo News has apologized after the country’s media regulator suspended its broadcast over content it says could offend religious feelings in the Islamic nation.
Police searched Tuesday for a suspect who allegedly targeted a Ukrainian-born business tycoon and his family with a parcel bomb in the wealthy Mediterranean principality of Monaco, in an attack described by Prince Albert II as “an odious act.”
An Indonesian court sentenced former education minister Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder of Indonesia’s largest start-up, Gojek, to 10 years in prison Tuesday in a controversial corruption case that has raised concerns at home and abroad over the country’s legal system.
Political uncertainty remained Monday in Serbia after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced he would resign within weeks and call early presidential and parliamentary elections following 18 months of student-led anti-government protests.
Residents of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, awoke Monday to a fresh aftershock as rescuers raced to find survivors four days after twin earthquakes devastated parts of the country, killing nearly 1,500 people and injuring more than 3,000.
Denmark’s immigration minister wants to ban the Islamic public call to prayer, saying “Islamization” has taken up “too much of the public space” and that parts of the Nordic nation resemble “a suburb of Islamabad.”
Britain’s King Charles III’s official job description has effectively changed from stressing his role as “Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith” to describing the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England who “protects the space for Faith” within Britain’s “multi-faith nation.”
Walking on eggshells, conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar allowed the Budapest Pride march to proceed over the weekend despite keeping in place legislation that had barred last year’s event.
More than 1,300 people died as an extreme heatwave gripped Europe, shattering temperature records across several countries on Sunday, officials said.
Israel News
The United States Senate has voted down multiple resolutions aimed at halting U.S. weapons sales to Israel, but the votes revealed a notable shift within the Democratic Party, where support for such measures has surged in recent years.
In a significant diplomatic breakthrough, Israel and Lebanon held their first direct negotiations in more than three decades on Tuesday, raising cautious optimism that a pathway toward peace—and potentially normalization—may be emerging in the Middle East.
Israel’s intelligence chief revealed that the Mossad carried out covert operations deep inside Iran’s capital during the recent U.S.-Israel military campaign, declaring that the agency’s mission is far from over and ultimately aims at the fall of the Iranian regime.
As Israel prepares to observe Yom HaShoah—translated as “Day of the Holocaust” — new figures highlight both the enduring legacy and the rapidly declining number of those who survived one of history’s darkest atrocities.
Israel announced that more than 250 Hezbollah terrorists and commanders were killed during its large-scale military campaign known as “Operation Eternal Darkness,” marking one of the most significant blows to the Iran-backed terrorist group in recent years.
Reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip are quietly moving forward, even as the Hamas terrorist organization has yet to agree to disarmament—an issue Israel continues to insist upon as a condition for full-scale rebuilding.
Israel’s military has moved to a heightened state of readiness following the collapse of negotiations between the United States and Iran, signaling growing concern that renewed conflict in the region may be imminent.
U.S. News
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 8-1 decision on Thursday, allowed U.S. companies to seek damages from property seizures by the Cuban government.
In an epic breakdown of negotiations, Congress is leaving town without voting on Republicans’ roughly $72 billion budget reconciliation bill.
In a remarkable rebuke of the Trump administration’s mission against Iran, the U.S. Senate narrowly advanced a War Powers Resolution when a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in a 50-47 vote.
President Donald Trump scored another major victory in his effort to reshape the Republican Party Tuesday night as Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie lost his primary to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the state’s 4th Congressional District.
Despite the White House publicly urging the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to approve the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan housing bill, House lawmakers have put forth their own version of the bill that strips provisions reining in private equity.
TrumpRx is expanding to about seven times its current size, adding more than 600 generic prescription drugs to the months-old direct-to-consumer government website, the president said Monday.
After the Fifth Circuit last month allowed Texas’ border security law, SB 4, to go into effect, another federal court has now blocked four of its provisions.
Christian News
Christians in Pakistan’s industrial city of Gujranwala expressed fears of renewed violence after a Christian family’s ancestral home was allegedly taken over by a Muslim lawyer who accused the homeowner of blasphemy, sources told Worthy News.
A 33-year-old man in eastern Uganda was allegedly killed by his Muslim father after converting to Christianity, local sources said, in what church leaders describe as part of a broader pattern of faith-related violence in the African nation.
Christian advocacy groups have expressed alarm over what they describe as a sharp rise in arrests and mistreatment of Christians in Iran, particularly converts, accusing the Islamic Republic of increasingly using national security laws to suppress religious dissent.
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran from an Iranian orphanage in the 1970s is facing possible deportation from the United States to Iran, where she could face execution for converting from Islam to Christianity, sources confirmed Sunday.
Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province were searching Thursday for an abducted minor girl, days after the provincial governor signed legislation raising the legal marriage age to 18 and criminalizing child marriage as a non-bailable offense.
A pastor and five others, including firefighters, were recovering from their injuries Wednesday after a massive explosion ripped through a church in the U.S. state of New York, officials said.
As Ramadan, deemed a holy month by Muslims, began Wednesday, advocates warned that Christians and other religious minorities in parts of South Asia face potentially deadly consequences from blasphemy accusations amplified by social media and mob violence.