Tensions remained high in Albania’s capital Sunday after violent clashes between protesters and police left scores injured and hundreds detained, as nationwide anti-government demonstrations entered a new phase following five consecutive days of unrest.

The United States is assembling a formidable military force in the Middle East amid growing indications that President Donald Trump could dramatically escalate operations against Iran following the November 3 midterm elections, even as Tehran intensifies attacks on commercial shipping and Washington faces mounting political pressure over the prolonged conflict.

France descended into widespread unrest Saturday as student-led demonstrations erupted into violent riots across major cities, leaving buildings burning, businesses looted and police battling masked protesters. The turmoil comes amid mounting political tensions, with Palestinian flags appearing at mass demonstrations and concerns growing over the influence of radical movements on the country’s streets.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has suspended sweeping new sanctions against Russia, citing American national interests, as Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least eight people in Ukraine and left more than a million without electricity.

Iran’s growing financial crisis has forced an extraordinary reversal in its regional terror network, with Iranian-backed militias reportedly withholding salaries from their own fighters to send money back to Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East.

Hungary and Ukraine agreed Friday to rebuild their strained political and economic relations after Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar held his first formal one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking a major diplomatic breakthrough.

Indonesia’s stock market suffered its worst collapse since the 1998 Asian financial crisis on Friday, forcing authorities to temporarily halt trading as calls for a revolution against President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka circulated on social media.

The U.S. military has developed new strike plans against Iran that could include deploying the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in America’s arsenal against Iranian nuclear facilities and energy infrastructure, according to reports Thursday.

A fuel supply crisis has disrupted daily life on Indonesia’s internationally renowned tourist island of Bali, forcing schools to suspend in-person classes, leaving motorists waiting in lines stretching for kilometers and prompting authorities to organize emergency deliveries.

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker over a social media comment deemed insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, following diplomatic intervention by Sri Lanka and appeals from human rights advocates, officials said Wednesday.

Mourners gathered Saturday for Palestinian Orthodox Christians Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter Mary Hafez Abu Daoud, who were among five Palestinians allegedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Gaza City.

The Indian captain, praised as a hero for helping save 174 passengers while fighting for his life, has spoken publicly for the first time about his struggle in the cockpit with his co-pilot aboard a flydubai passenger jet on a flight to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the extraordinary rescue of a flydubai passenger jet bound for Israel as a “chain of miracles with divine assistance,” as investigators probe evidence that the co-pilot accused of trying to crash the aircraft had undergone Islamist radicalization.

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that 170 Palestinians killed during the Gaza war and publicly identified as journalists or media workers were actually members of terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Israeli passengers are being hailed as heroes after storming the cockpit of a flydubai passenger jet Wednesday and overpowering a co-pilot who Israeli officials say stabbed the captain and apparently attempted to crash the aircraft with 174 people aboard.

Israel scrambled fighter jets Wednesday after a violent cockpit incident aboard a commercial flight carrying Israelis from Dubai to Tel Aviv raised fears of a hijacking and forced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has filed defamation lawsuits against several Israeli media outlets and journalists over reports alleging that he received warnings from Egyptian and Emirati officials ahead of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.

The U.S. Supreme Court has again blocked Missouri from using a Republican-backed congressional map in the November midterm elections, marking the third time the justices have intervened in the closely watched redistricting battle.

A deadly, powerful storm crept along the U.S. Northeast coast, disrupting world leaders gathering in New York and devastating the livelihoods of ordinary Americans.

A federal judge has temporarily ordered the Trump administration to restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ruling that the three outlets are likely to succeed in their challenge to the way their press passes were revoked.

The Department of Homeland Security is pushing back against several claims surrounding an illegal Venezuelan migrant shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a targeted enforcement operation in Austin, Texas, saying the man was in the country illegally, lacked a valid work permit, and had already been ordered removed.

Political committees funded by billionaire George Soros and his network have distributed more than $40 million to Democratic-aligned organizations during the 2026 election cycle, according to campaign-finance filings covering activity through June 30.

President Donald Trump is proposing a new “AI Force” modeled on the United States Space Force, placing artificial intelligence near the center of America’s economic and national-security strategy.

Justice Department and Homeland Security investigations focus on noncitizen voting, false citizenship claims and fraudulent registrations

Evangelical Christianity in Britain is younger, more ethnically diverse and more male than the wider population, with millions embracing its beliefs, according to a landmark study seen by Worthy News.

Christians in two states of Nigeria have plunged into mourning after suspected Islamic militants killed at least 24 people in recent attacks amid mounting violence against Christian communities, sources said.

Christians in Myanmar were mourning Sunday after the ruling military shot and killed a Baptist pastor in predominantly Christian Chin State, the latest church leader to die amid the country’s civil conflict, Christian investigators said.

Algerian special police forces have raided a Christian gathering and detained 12 believers, adding to concerns about religious freedom in the predominantly Muslim North African nation, Christians told Worthy News.

Authorities in Nigeria’s predominantly Christian Plateau State have ordered a crackdown on an unauthorized Islamic religious police group attempting to enforce aspects of Sharia, or Islamic law, amid broader concerns about pressure on Christians and fresh deadly violence in Nigeria’s troubled Middle Belt region.

For decades, St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in central Tehran was more than a sanctuary. Its ten-acre compound held homes, two schools and offices tied to Iran’s Protestant community. Now the church is closed, its residents have been evicted, and guards have been posted to keep worshippers from returning.

For years, Campus Bible Fellowship had a place among the student clubs at SUNY Broome Community College. Now the Christian ministry is in federal court, fighting for the right to choose leaders who share its faith.