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The United States imposed a sweeping set of sanctions Wednesday targeting an international network of companies and vessels accused of facilitating the illicit trade of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products. The move, announced just days ahead of renewed U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.

Russia and North Korea have begun constructing a road bridge to strengthen their “strategic partnership” despite reports that hundreds of North Korean soldiers have died fighting for Russia.

U.S. national laboratories and Pentagon-funded universities are reportedly using Chinese supercomputers in ways that jeopardize American national security

The United States and Ukraine have signed a landmark agreement creating the United States–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, granting the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals in exchange for long-term economic and military support.

A massive police operation was underway Tuesday in a Swedish university city after three people were killed in a shooting that shocked the Nordic nation.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump says he has revoked the Secret Service’s protection of former President Joe Biden’s children and condemned his predecessor for vacationing in South Africa amid a row over segments the country’s White population.

A class action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Enemy Aliens Act to target, arrest, and remove violent Venezuelan prison gang members, Tren de Aragua (TdA), from the U.S.

Lawmakers have prevented a government shutdown by passing a six-month funding stopgap bill, with the U.S. Senate voting 54-46 hours before the midnight deadline.

Some 100 million Americans have been impacted by violent tornadoes ripping through parts of the United States, wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that has killed at least 35 people, authorities said.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump effectively closed down the Voice of America (VOA) broadcaster Saturday, impacting hundreds of millions of people, many of whom listen in countries without a free press.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel’s military pressure on Hamas is proving effective as his security cabinet decided to increase operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured, and executed 22-year-old Oday Nasser Al Rabay after he joined anti-Hamas protests in Gaza last week, his family said Sunday.

The House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees are investigating six Israeli and U.S. groups that received federal funding under the Biden administration, suspecting the money was used to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel’s elected government during the 2023 judicial reform protests.

Israel’s parliament passed a controversial law Wednesday morning that reshapes the committee that selects judges, a key part of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s judicial reform plan.

“Israel is and will remain a democracy,” Prime Minister Netanyahu told opposition lawmakers Wednesday, rejecting claims his government is eroding the rule of law. Meanwhile, thousands protested outside the Knesset as lawmakers moved toward final votes on a contentious judicial bill.

A Nigerian pastor was recovering from his injuries Wednesday after gunmen shot him and severed his fingers while abducting six worshipers from a Pentecostal church in Nigeria’s southern Delta state, his wife and other sources said.

Some 50 Christians were attacked during a Sunday service in western India, the latest in a series of attacks targeting churches in the mainly Hindu nation, Worthy News learned Wednesday.

More than 60 Montagnard Christian refugees from Vietnam — including men, women, children, and pregnant women — were detained in Thailand, adding to concerns among Christian asylum seekers, rights activists said Tuesday.

An elderly Christian woman has been sentenced to 20 hours of community service in the Netherlands for smashing 300 “idols” made of ceramic in 2023, declaring, “There is only one God, that is Yahweh” while calling the art exhibition a “false image of God.”

A leading international court is deliberating on whether to punish Nicaragua after it sentenced 11 Nicaraguan pastors and ministry leaders to prison and forced them to pay millions in fines for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ in massive evangelism campaigns.