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U.S. President Donald Trump warned Sunday that the United States could be drawn directly into the escalating war between Israel and Iran if hostilities continue to spiral. While reiterating that the U.S. had no role in Israel’s latest strikes, Trump left the door open to military intervention, vowing a devastating response to any Iranian attack on American forces.

Despite war still raging, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his U.S. counterpart Donald J. Trump that Moscow is ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22 once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies in a conflict that is believed that have killed and injured more than 1 million people.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lengthy phone conversation on Saturday, focusing heavily on the escalating war between Israel and Iran. The call, which lasted nearly an hour, came as tensions in the Middle East soared following Israel’s strike on Iranian nuclear sites and Iran’s deadly retaliation.

An Australian man was shot and killed, and another Australian man was injured on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali, prompting a police search for two suspects, local officials said Saturday.

An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket island to India’s capital, New Delhi, was forced to return and make an emergency landing after an onboard bomb threat, officials confirmed.

The United States last week indicted three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on charges of hacking Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and trying to interfere with the November 5 general election, Reuters reports.

More than 660,000 criminal foreign nationals identified to be deported by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement are freely living in communities nationwide.

The mayor of New York vowed to fight corruption charges amid calls for his resignation after U.S. prosecutors presented their case against him.

Unlike other nonagenarians celebrating their 91-year-old birthday with family and friends and enjoying retirement, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley spent his birthday standing on the U.S. Senate floor for over 30 minutes advocating for thousands of abused and missing children.

Hurricane Helene, a major storm with “life-threatening impacts,” is expected to make a quick landfall in the United States on Thursday, September 26, Accu Weather reports. The hurricane is moving over the Gulf of Mexico, rapidly gaining strength.

Around 31,000 Jewish people from over 100 countries immigrated to Israel in the last year, a period which has seen the October 7 attack by Hamas and the consequent war in Gaza, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has confirmed that Fateh Sherif, who was killed in an Israeli air strike today, was the leader of Hamas in Lebanon while also employed as a school principal by UNRWA, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Preparations were underway late Monday for Israel to invade Lebanon “the moment that the security cabinet approves” the military operation, meaning within hours, Israeli sources say.

Israeli special forces have been carrying out targeted raids into southern Lebanon, probing Hezbollah’s border tunnels and gathering intelligence in an effort to weaken Hezbollah’s capabilities, ahead of a potential broader ground incursion expected soon, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Israel last week secured an $8.7 billion US weapons package to support its fighting against Iranian proxies Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Houthi insurgents in Yemen, All Israel News (AIN) reports.

Christians across Africa are increasingly subject to deadly violence at the hands of Islamic terrorists and, on Apr. 9, suspected Al-Shabaab members murdered two Christians and wounded others in two attacks in Lamu West, Kenya, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Christians in Vietnam now face new hurdles in planting churches as the government has issued Decree 95, a law which requires religious groups to submit financial records and allows officials to close down religious activities for unspecified “serious violations,” Christianity Today reports.

A Christian rights watchdog organization reports that Christians in Kosovo have been experiencing widespread persecution, Christian Daily reports. A small southeastern European country which separated from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo has a 93% Muslim population; just 6% of the population is Christian.

The United Church of Christ in Nigeria (UCCN) says one hostage died when suspected Islamic gunmen, known as “bandits,” released more than 50 church members after four months of captivity.

A Belarusian preacher, Syarhey Melyanets, has still not been released from jail in Belarus after being sentenced to 13 days’ imprisonment on unspecified charges, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reports.