Greenland’s prime minister has warned residents and authorities to prepare for possible disruptions and security risks as U.S. President Donald J. Trump continues to threaten to takeover the Arctic island, despite mounting concern within the United States Congress.

A commuter train derailed late Tuesday near the city of Barcelona after a containment wall collapsed onto the track during heavy rain, killing the train’s driver and injuring around 20 people, Spanish authorities said.

Rescue workers continued recovery operations Tuesday after a devastating fire tore through a crowded shopping mall over the weekend in Pakistan’s largest city, killing at least 28 people, including a firefighter, according to officials.

As many as hundreds of additional Danish troops arrived in Greenland late Monday after U.S. Donald J. Trump made clear he wants to annex the territory by buying it from Denmark, while not ruling out using force.

Iran’s Islamic regime has effectively erected a modern-day Berlin Wall — not of concrete and barbed wire, but of cables, servers, and state-controlled silence — as it plunges the country into a near-total internet blackout to crush nationwide protests and shield its violence from global scrutiny.

Residents across Australia’s east coast were coping Monday with the aftermath of severe summer storms that authorities said killed at least one person, triggered evacuations, and left thousands without power as floodwaters rose and further storms threatened areas.

Scores of people were reported killed and nearly 200 injured in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming train, in what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called “a night of deep pain” for the country.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has declared a state of catastrophe in the country’s central and southern regions after raging wildfires killed at least 18 people, forced mass evacuations, and reportedly destroyed at least one church and hundreds of homes.

Europe and the United States, long regarded as close allies, edged toward a trade — and potentially military — confrontation on Monday not seen since the 1930s, after U.S. President Donald J. Trump did not rule out taking control of Greenland by force.

The leader of a radical-right populist party placed second in Portugal’s presidential election and will face a center-left opponent in a runoff vote next month, official results showed Monday, underscoring deepening political fragmentation in the European Union member state.

Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has threatened to assassinate Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after one or more Iranian ballistic missiles struck the hospital in Beersheba, the main city in Israel’s Negev desert.

Iran launched about 20 powerful ballistic missiles toward Israel, and at least one of them struck Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, officials and witnesses said.

Israel is facing a critical shortage of its Arrow missile interceptors, raising alarm over its ability to defend against long-range ballistic missiles from Iran as the conflict continues without resolution, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing a U.S. official.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday vowed that his nation “will never surrender,” defiantly rejecting President Donald Trump’s call for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” as Israeli airstrikes pummeled targets across Iran for a sixth consecutive day.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday that its campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities is on track to achieve its objectives within a week or two. The military’s estimate came as Israeli fighter jets and drones carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes, targeting Iranian ballistic missile launchers, air defense systems, and radar sites across western and central Iran.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued chilling threats Tuesday night, declaring “the battle begins” and vowing no mercy for Israel, as U.S. President Donald Trump considered launching American strikes on Iranian targets.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a powerful message from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, underscoring the belief that God’s hand is guiding America’s leadership during this critical moment in the Middle East.

After years of “Black Lives Matter” campaigns, former White House adviser Elon Musk is questioning whether White lives matter too, saying there has been a muted media response to the brutal killing of a young Ukrainian refugee by a black man in the United States.

President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his pledge to defend religious liberty, announcing forthcoming Department of Education guidelines that he said will provide “total protection” for prayer in America’s public schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily lifted restrictions on federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, siding with the Trump administration in a dispute over alleged racial profiling by immigration authorities.

A new report released by the Trump-appointed Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias alleges that the Biden administration “weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians,” targeting faith communities across multiple agencies and departments.

President Donald J. Trump on Friday revived the historic title “Department of War” for the U.S. Defense Department as his administration claimed credit for freeing dozens of American hostages and pressed for the release of others still held in Gaza and Belarus.

The District of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the president’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to the nation’s capital as part of a federal crackdown on crime.

A new study has found that just half of U.S. lawmakers vote in alignment with biblical principles, with Republicans dominating the top rankings and Democrats overwhelmingly at the bottom.

Amid a surge in persecution against Christians in India, believers are rejoicing that a pastor and his wife were released on bail after 20 months in prison on false charges of forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity, Global Christian Relief (GCR) reports.

A Christian woman in India’s Odisha state is recovering after she was stripped naked and brutalized until she blacked out by Hindu nationalists enraged at her faith in Christ, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Investigators demanded Friday that Nigeria’s government ends “the reign of terror” against Christian communities after scores of Christians were killed by Islamic fighters in the last days of 2024.

Numerous Christians in and around Los Angeles were preparing to pray Sunday without a church building as many houses of worship were destroyed in the American city’s worst wildfires on record.

Nearly 400 Christian leaders and 30 church groups have urged India’s government to defend the Christian minority after hundreds of attacks against Christians, including more than a dozen around Christmas.

Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state have been warned to spend the next few weeks on high alert against attacks by Fulani radicalized Islamic herdsmen as three more believers were murdered on Monday (January 6), bringing the number of such killings to 11 since early December, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Continuing a campaign of terror against Christians in northern Nigeria that has lasted over 18 years, Fulani militant herdsmen launched a fresh attack against believers in Kaduna state during a New Year’s Day dawn raid on Unguwar Rogo village, Kajuru County, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.