A network of far-left organizations and activist media outlets previously involved in promoting anti-Israel demonstrations across the United States has emerged as a prominent force amplifying France’s escalating unrest, as violent riots, arson, and attacks on police shake the country ahead of its presidential election.

Russia has released a 74-year-old American teacher imprisoned for more than four years on disputed charges of fighting for Ukraine, after President Donald J. Trump personally appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his freedom, U.S. officials confirmed Wednesday.

France has imposed emergency curfews across several major cities following a weekend of widespread rioting, arson, and looting that overwhelmed police forces, damaged thousands of businesses, and left authorities scrambling to restore order.

A Kenyan court has convicted Paul Mackenzie and 28 other cult leaders of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children, in a religious movement that encouraged followers to starve their children to death so they could “meet Jesus.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the United States not to abandon Ukraine ahead of a new round of negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war against his country. His appeal comes amid growing tensions with Washington over American military assistance, while Russian missile and drone attacks have reportedly killed and injured dozens of civilians since Friday and left hundreds of thousands of households without electricity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a three-way summit with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year war in Ukraine, potentially placing the country’s future in the hands of three global powers while excluding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the discussions.

Romanian F-16 fighter jets have shot down two suspected Russian drones over the country’s territorial waters in the Black Sea, as regional security tensions escalate following a series of attacks on commercial vessels that left sailors dead or missing near the territory of the NATO military alliance.

Russian attacks have killed at least ten people and injured dozens across Ukraine over the weekend, while strikes on energy facilities have left more than a million people facing power outages. The violence comes amid growing tensions between Kyiv and Washington over American satellite technology and President Donald J. Trump’s decision to suspend new sanctions against Russia.

Indonesia has agreed to accept foreign assistance to fight widespread forest fires after four people battling the flames were killed and smoke blanketed parts of Southeast Asia, while investigators uncovered suspected corruption involving equipment intended for firefighting operations.

A sprawling network of communist organizations, socialist movements, labor unions, and pro-Palestinian activists has helped fuel France’s escalating unrest, transforming student demonstrations into a nationwide political revolt that has left cities scarred by fires, looting, and violent clashes with police.

Israelis gathered across the country Wednesday to mark three years since the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, pausing to remember the roughly 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage on the deadliest single day in Israel’s history.

The U.S.-backed Board of Peace marked the third anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre on Wednesday by renewing its commitment to a Gaza Strip that is demilitarized, deradicalized and no longer capable of threatening Israel.

More than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers representing 117 nations arrived in Israel Monday for the annual Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit, bringing together believers from around the world to strengthen Christian support for the Jewish state and confront rising antisemitism.

Diplomatic tensions between Britain and Israel escalated Tuesday, with London threatening to expel Israeli diplomats if Israel closes the British Consulate in East Jerusalem later this week.

More than 260 pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrations are planned worldwide surrounding the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre, prompting heightened security concerns for Jewish communities and Israeli diplomatic facilities.

Israel has killed approximately two-thirds of the terrorists who crossed into Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday, vowing that Israeli forces will continue pursuing the roughly 2,000 perpetrators still believed to be alive.

Britain’s Green Party has formally declared itself an “anti-Zionist party,” adopting a sweeping resolution that defines Zionism as racism and calls for the establishment of a single Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine—a policy critics say would effectively eliminate Israel as a Jewish state.

A massive Pentagon data breach exposed sensitive personal information belonging to more than 2.76 million living U.S. military personnel and civilian employees, including Social Security numbers and employment information, according to Pentagon officials.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released $300 million in federal security grants to help protect houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations facing heightened threats across the United States.

Newly released federal survey data show a significant decline in the percentage of American high school girls identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, with the most dramatic shift occurring among younger students.

The Trump administration has formally removed the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations from the federal rulebook, restoring the 2020 regulations and moving forward with a federal definition of sex based on biological male and female classifications.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. military intelligence and cyber agencies to mobilize their capabilities to protect the 2026 midterm elections from foreign interference, declaring election security a “no-fail mission.”

Another Muslim man in the U.S. has been sentenced on terrorism charges, including providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

President Donald Trump will bring together some of America’s most prominent technology and government leaders in Washington this week for an event showcasing what his administration is calling the emerging “Golden Era of America,” according to an exclusive report by Fox News Digital.

Chinese authorities have detained several pastors and church workers from a prominent unregistered congregation in Beijing, the latest sign of mounting pressure on China’s house church movement even as Christianity has experienced extraordinary growth since the Communist takeover more than seven decades ago.

Christian advocates urged authorities across South Asia on Sunday to ensure greater accountability for deadly attacks targeting Christians after recent convictions over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter bombings renewed scrutiny of attacks in Pakistan.

A Baptist pastor was shot dead while returning from church work in western Myanmar’s Chin State in an attack that Christian advocates and a resistance group have blamed on the country’s military.

Thousands of college students gathered at Pepperdine University in Southern California this week for an evening of worship, prayer, and preaching that organizers say resulted in hundreds making decisions to follow Jesus Christ and many being baptized.

Two sisters were recovering Thursday after their father allegedly tried to burn them to death in western Uganda.

A Baptist pastor was shot and killed by suspected Muslim Fulani militants while on his way to a church service in central Nigeria’s Plateau State, Worthy News learned Wednesday, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks on Christians over the weekend.

Two Christian men have been detained in Pakistan on blasphemy charges that could carry severe penalties, including death, while questions surround the shooting death of a Christian worker.