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A delegation of European Union lawmakers visiting Hungary urged Europe’s top court on Wednesday to suspend a new law banning Budapest Pride, the annual rally for the LGBTQ+ community.

Students and staff members at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are recovering after an angry crowd of anti-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters stormed and vandalized the 18th-century Maagdenhuis (Maiden House), the UvA’s administrative complex.

On the eve of high-stakes talks in Tehran, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi issued a stark warning that Iran is dangerously close to acquiring a nuclear weapon.

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his hardline stance on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, telling reporters Monday, “They cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon.”

Hungary has adopted a constitutional amendment banning LGBTQ+ gatherings, including the annual Pride March while recognizing only two genders, “man and woman.”

The United States is “lagging” behind other major economies in developing a digital version of its currency, according to a recent study by the US-based Atlantic Council think tank. The study found that as 134 countries representing 98% of the global economy are making concerted efforts to produce a digital currency, the US is far behind competing economies such as China, India, Japan, and Europe in doing so.

The White House asked Special Counsel Robert Hur to make changes to descriptions of President Joe Biden’s memory in Hur’s bombshell report on how the president handled classified documents.

The Biden administration will send a new $300 million ’emergency’ military aid package for Ukraine bypassing Congress after its plans to assist Kyiv have been stalled on Capitol Hill, White House National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan announced on Tuesday.

The US Department of Agriculture published its 2022 Census of Agriculture on Feb. 13, showing that the number of farms in America decreased by 7%, or 141,733, between 2017 and 2022, Farm Bureau reports.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday confirmed that a smuggling organization working with the terrorist organization ISIS is funneling criminals through the U.S. border. He also said the FBI is currently investigating its operations that “we’re very concerned about.”

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.

A two-minute-long siren sounded across Israel Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day between anxiety over the future of a Jewish nation faced with the ongoing war in Gaza and other threats to its existence.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday they have begun moving the Palestinian population from the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah to “a humanitarian zone” ahead of an expected Israeli military invasion in that city in southern Gaza.

In a controversial move, Israel’s government shut down the operations of the Al Jazeera television network in the country, saying it was a mouthpiece of Hamas and a security threat.

A bride and groom are among at least 114 people who died at a Christian wedding party in northern Iraq where a fire tore through the hall packed with guests, officials said Wednesday.

There have been 525 attacks by Hindu nationalists against Christians across India this year alone, Christian Today (CT) reports. Ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, India ranks 11TH on the US Open Doors World Watch List 2023 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

Recent comments by a senior Iranian cleric that around 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques are closed highlight the growth of Christianity in Iran and disillusion with “the regime’s use of Islam to justify its authoritarian rule,” a prominent human rights activist told Worthy News on Monday.

Radicalized Fulani Muslim herdsmen continue a years-long genocidal slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: on September 20, herdsmen attacked a village in Nasarawa state, killing one Christian and wounding three others, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. With well over 50,000 Christians murdered by Islamic militants since 2009, Nigeria was recently described by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom as a “killing field” for Christians.

Terrorists affiliated with Islamic State murdered 11 Christians in an attack on Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique last week, Aid the Church in Need (ACN) reports. The killings come amid relentless violence in Cabo Delgado and the neighboring province of Niassa, which has led to the deaths of around 5,000 people and the internal displacement of some 1 million others.