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U.S. President Donald J. Trump is seeking a direct, face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week in a bold move to end Moscow’s war against Ukraine, officials confirmed Wednesday.

Russia and China conducted joint anti-submarine warfare drills Wednesday in the Sea of Japan, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to reposition near Russian waters following incendiary remarks by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

President Donald Trump has doubled tariffs on Indian imports to 50%, accusing New Delhi of propping up Russia’s war effort by continuing to import and resell Russian crude oil.

Italy’s government has officially approved a €13.5 billion ($15.6 billion) plan to construct the world’s longest suspension bridge, connecting the island of Sicily to the mainland over the Strait of Messina. Long debated, often canceled, and frequently politicized, the project is now being fast-tracked with a new justification: national security.

Moscow was pondering options in its war against Ukraine on Wednesday, including a pause on air strikes, ahead of the arrival of U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.

Late last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries such as mastectomies and penile reconstruction. In response, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply with the EO.

Residents in western Alaska plunged into mourning on Saturday after one of the deadliest air crashes in the U.S. state in the last 25 years killed all 10 people on board.

President Donald Trump addressed a gathering of the nation’s spiritual leaders and lawmakers at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, when he promised to create a religious liberty commission and end anti-Christian bias.

The U.S. Department of Defense was pressured Thursday to explain why it paid over $9 million to the company that owns the Reuters news agency for activities that included “active social engineering” and “large-scale social deception.”

A new nationwide annual poll reveals that young adults in the U.S., ages 18-24, are increasingly adopting pro-life positions, showing greater support for restrictions on abortion.

After 15 long months of bloodshed in Gaza sparked by the Hamas massacre of 1,200 people in Israel, a hostage and ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel was reached Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden said.

Iran’s Vice-President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad ZarMif, has accused Israel of planting explosives in Iranian centrifuge equipment, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Determined to ensure that the Holocaust is not forgotten or denied, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Monday launched a digital campaign featuring 80 survivors of Auschwitz, the most notoriously brutal death camp in history, i24News reports. The German Nazis murdered more than 1.1 million Jews at Auschwitz in occupied Poland during World War II.

With much of the U.S. state of California resembling a war zone due to deadly wildfire, a “wildfire defense system” may be on the way from Israel.

Hamas is rapidly rebuilding “its terror infrastructure” in the Gaza Strip, exploiting humanitarian aid and convincing young Gazans to join its ranks, Israeli and U.S. sources said Tuesday.

Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province remained concerned Sunday after a Muslim mob reportedly tried to kill a Christian mother of two accused of blasphemy while also targeting her sister.

The Islamic extremist Taliban have been in power in Afghanistan for three years (since the US withdrawal in August 2021), and the Afghan church is in a “precarious” position, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A young woman who has been jailed in Iran after abandoning Islam and turning to faith in Christ has been denied requested psychological care despite suffering mental difficulties linked to her treatment in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, Christians say.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) states in its 2024 Annual Report that the government of Nigeria continues to tolerate terror attacks by nonstate Islamic extremists who want to impose their form of Sharia law upon Nigerians, especially Christians, Morning Star News reports.

US Christian ministry leaders believe a revival is taking place in the Islamic Middle East, with more than one million leaving Islam for Christianity in Iran alone, CBN News reports.