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A massive wave of Russian drone and missile strikes pummeled Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial attack since the war began, just hours after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The assault injured at least 23 civilians and left swaths of the capital damaged, including apartment buildings, rail infrastructure, and emergency response vehicles.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced sweeping new sanctions aimed at crippling Iran’s oil revenue and its ability to fund terrorism and develop nuclear weapons.

The Pentagon has paused some shipments of U.S. weapons to Ukraine as part of an internal review to assess the impact on America’s own military stockpiles, Defense Department officials confirmed Wednesday. The move comes as the Trump administration prioritizes recalibrating U.S. defense commitments in light of strategic needs, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.

Dozens of people were feared dead Thursday after a ferry sank and five people died the previous night near Indonesia’s tropical resort island of Bali.

U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have delayed Tehran’s nuclear ambitions by up to two years, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, who briefed reporters Wednesday on the aftermath of the operation.

The United States Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 4) heard oral arguments in a landmark case to determine whether Tennessee can ban puberty blockers, hormonal treatments, and sex-change surgeries for minors who identify as transgender.

Donald J. Trump appointed Peter Navarro, his former adviser who served prison time for “refusing” to cooperate with a congressional investigation, as his senior counselor.

The head of America’s biggest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, has been killed in an apparently “targeted attack” following an early morning shooting outside an investor meeting in New York, police say.

The US Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic published a 520-page report on the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday (December 2). The report concluded that the virus was most likely “leaked” from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and reported bipartisan findings on the advancement and management of the crisis in the US.

President-elect Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son, Hunter, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, citing a “gradually deepening crisis of trust.” The move comes as Israel braces for a potential Iranian attack amid U.S. election results.

Israel on Monday (November 4) officially notified the United Nations that the Jewish state is withdrawing from the 1967 agreement through which it recognized and worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. In informing the UN that it no longer recognizes UNRWA, Israel contends that, as only 13 percent of aid to Palestinians comes through this agency, there are other sources of assistance for them.

Israel’s military confirmed Monday that it had “eliminated” critical leaders of the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and Hezbollah in Lebanon after killing several other commanders over the weekend.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are discussing a security agreement that excludes an Israel normalization deal, with hopes to finalize it before President Biden’s term ends in January, Axios reported on Monday.

In a rare statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that on Monday, it conducted airstrikes in Syria targeting Hezbollah’s intelligence division near Damascus.

Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria are devastated after Fulani terrorists murdered an Assemblies of God pastor, his wife, and three other church members less than one week after Christian Irigwe and Muslim Fulani leaders met to discuss an end to the decades-long slaughter of believers by radicalized Islamic militants.

A 74-year-old Christian man in Punjab Province, Pakistan, has succumbed to the injuries he sustained during a May 25 attack by a mob of Muslims who falsely believed he had desecrated the Quran, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Nazir Gill, a resident of the predominantly Christian community in Sargodha, suffered severe head trauma and died at a military hospital near Islamabad on Monday.

Wycliffe Associates, an international organization that empowers mother-tongue Bible translators and partners with local churches in the advancement of Bible translation, is working to provide printed Bibles for Christians in 13 language groups across North Africa and the Middle East.

Jon Britton Hancock, an American missionary to Nicaragua with the US-based Mountain Gate ministry remains wrongfully charged by the authoritarian communist Nicaraguan regime of fraud but, as he was able to return home to the United States, will face trial in his absence, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

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