Germany is in shock after an 18-year-old woman was reportedly killed when she was grabbed by a 25-year-old man from South Sudan on a subway platform in the city of Hamburg and thrown in front of an oncoming train. The man also died in the horrific incident late Thursday, officials said.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has claimed that European Union leaders were presented with plans to admit Ukraine into the bloc by 2027, warning that the move would divert billions of euros away from Central European nations ahead of the EU’s next long-term budget cycle.

A virus far deadlier than the coronavirus has resurfaced in India, with health officials confirming two cases of the highly lethal Nipah virus. The cases prompted authorities to rush to prevent it from spreading to other nations and, potentially, beyond the continent.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, braced for more financial turmoil after stocks suffered their deepest two-day rout in nearly three decades, underscoring growing investor unease about policies under former general-turned-President Prabowo Subianto.

Hungary’s government under longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is preparing a legal challenge against the European Union’s decision to accelerate the phase-out of Russian oil and natural gas imports, the country’s foreign minister has confirmed.

The European Union on Thursday formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, marking a historic shift in the bloc’s Iran policy following years of internal debate and mounting pressure over Tehran’s violent repression of dissent.

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Wednesday, declaring that “time is running out” for Tehran to negotiate over its nuclear program as a major U.S. naval armada moves into the Middle East. At the same time, key American allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced they would not support or facilitate any U.S. military strikes against Iran from their territory or airspace.

The progressive mayor of Budapest has condemned Hungarian prosecutors for seeking to fine him after hundreds of thousands of people joined a Pride march in the Hungarian capital despite a government-backed ban.

The United States has formally completed its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the State Department confirmed Tuesday, marking President Donald Trump’s second exit from the global climate pact and fulfilling a key pledge of his administration’s “America First” agenda.

Vladimir Putin met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Kremlin on Wednesday, as Russia moves to safeguard its remaining military bases in Syria following a dramatic shift in power in the war-torn nation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel and the United States are in full agreement on how to confront Iran, describing his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump as a strategic partnership that will drive continued Israeli security successes in 2026.

Senior Israeli and Syrian officials are set to resume high-level negotiations this week in talks mediated by the United States, marking a renewed diplomatic push after months of stalled progress, according to reports by i24NEWS and Axios.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump has been “unequivocal” that Hamas must fully disarm as a non-negotiable condition for advancing Trump’s proposed 20-point peace plan.

U.S. President Donald Trump has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approval to take action against Hezbollah if the Lebanese state fails to disarm the Iran-backed terror group, according to a Jerusalem Post exclusive citing a source familiar with the talks.

Israel absorbed approximately 21,900 new immigrants in 2025, marking a sharp decline of about one-third from the previous year, according to data released Monday by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry. The drop was driven largely by a steep fall in arrivals from Russia, following the surge that accompanied Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Israel said Tuesday it has begun enforcing new registration regulations for international nongovernmental organizations, moving to bar 37 groups from operating in Gaza and the West Bank after they failed to comply with requirements introduced earlier this year.

Israel and the United States have agreed to give Hamas a two-month window to disarm, according to a report by Israel Hayom, following an overnight meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Seven people died and a crew member survived with serious injuries when a private plane crashed while taking off at Bangor International Airport in the U.S. state of Maine, as steady snowfall from a massive winter storm swept across the region, aviation officials said Monday.

Federal agents shot and killed an armed man in Minneapolis Saturday morning, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

Tens of thousands of pro-life Americans from across the United States and around the world gathered Friday in the nation’s capital for the 53rd annual March for Life, filling the National Mall with a unified declaration that “Life Is a Gift.”

The U.S. economy expanded at a stronger pace in the third quarter than initially reported, powered by solid consumer demand and a sharp rebound in exports.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump marked one year since returning to the White House with a wide-ranging and often confrontational press conference, defending his record while renewing criticism of political opponents, major media outlets, and several U.S. allies.

Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota’s federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found.

Ten days before the government funding deadline, congressional appropriators released the last four fiscal year 2026 spending bills for the U.S. House to vote on.

Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, marked its first Christmas celebrations since a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, though concern lingered among Christians following an arson attack near a church elsewhere in the West Bank.

U.S. evangelist Ross Johnston said Wednesday that he has been sued for roughly $720,000 by a woman who claims she suffered injuries during one of his Christian outreach rallies in Los Angeles.

Minority Christians in Palestinian territories faced a tense Christmas after church officials confirmed that “an arson attack” damaged a Christmas tree and a Nativity grotto at the Holy Redeemer Church in Jenin.

Millions of Christians around the world are marking Christmas in secret amid persecution, violence, and discrimination, according to investigators.

The remaining 130 schoolchildren and staff abducted by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria last month — one of the largest mass kidnappings in the country’s history — have been freed, officials confirmed.

With Christmas approaching, a Christian worker and his family have fled a brick kiln in Pakistan where they were effectively held in modern-day slavery by their Muslim employer, amid continuing concerns over the safety of Christian girls in the mainly Islamic nation, investigators told Worthy News.

Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 55 years in prison amid a broader crackdown on devout Christian believers in Iran, a strict Islamic nation, sources told Worthy News Thursday.