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While currently still an official enemy of Israel, Saudi Arabia has been arresting Saudis who took to social media to express solidarity with Hamas and incitement against the Jewish state, i24 News reports.

China’s President Xi Jinping was to receive red-carpet treatment in Hungary and neighboring Serbia, contrasting tensions in France, where he began his six-day European tour.

Vladimir Putin has been sworn into his fifth term as Russia’s president despite a war that has killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people and concerns about nuclear drills.

A mob, including some armed with sharp weapons such as sticks, stormed a prayer service of Catholic students near Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, the latest in a series of anti-Christian incidents in the world’s largest Muslim nation, Christians told Worthy News early Tuesday.

Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Monday that it will be conducting practice drills for using nuclear weapons – because of “threats” made by Western officials, Reuters reports. The drills are a “response to provocative statements and threats by certain Western officials against the Russian Federation,” the defense ministry said.

A group of Republican US Senators is “strongly” urging the federal government to reverse its support for proposed amendments to the pandemic-related International Health Regulations (IHR) treaty on the grounds these amendments would undermine America’s sovereignty to declare and manage its own health emergencies, CBN News reports. The proposals will be considered by the World Health Assembly being held in Geneva, Switzerland between 27 May – 1 June 2024.

Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump received some welcome legal news on a day that media seemed obsessed with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, a key figure in a criminal case against him.

The world has seen a 74% increase in ransomware cyber attacks in the past year, with American entities being the worst affected, CNBC reports.

According to preliminary data from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), April 2024 recorded an unprecedented number of tornadoes, making it the second-highest number in history with 300 reported incidents.

As anti-Israel student protests sweep across American universities nationwide, the US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed by a large majority a bipartisan bill that would sanction antisemitism on college campuses, the Hill reports. The bill now moves to the US Senate for consideration.

Pro-Palestine protesters, many covering their faces and shouting antisemitic slogans, returned to the streets of Amsterdam, where they occupied a site of a major university and further threatened Jewish students and others.

A group campaigning for the release of hostages held by Hamas said Tuesday that Lior Rudaeff, who was thought to be in Gaza captivity, was murdered on October 7, and his body taken to Gaza.

Hamas claims a hostage previously confirmed deceased and another captive died of wounds from an Israeli attack, Israeli sources say.

A major new scientific study shows that Jerusalem in the time of the Biblical Kings David and Solomon was a large urban area, not a small town or village some historians have suggested.

Israel’s military said Monday it struck sites in the Gaza city of Rafah shortly after the Israeli government decided to continue with its “Rafah operation,” likely referring to an imminent invasion of the area.

An Islamist asylum seeker in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of attempting to kill his Iranian housemate for converting to Christianity and for murdering an elderly man he did not know on the street in Hartlepool, northern England, Christian Daily reports.

There has been an uptick in attacks on Christians in Nigeria by Fulani jihadist herdsmen, and on May 5, six people were boldly slaughtered in their homes during a raid on a predominantly Christian village in Kaduna state, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

America’s United Methodist Church General Conference last week voted to remove from its Book of Discipline rulebook a clause asserting that homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching,” the Christian Post (CP) reports.

The relentless murder of Christians in Nigeria is continuing, despite repeated warnings from rights groups, including the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, that Nigerian believers in Christ are facing genocide at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

Police in Punjab Province, Pakistan, have refused to assist a Catholic farming family after they were attacked by Muslims demanding they vacate their land, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.