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U.S. and Russian delegates wrapped up a day of tense talks on a plan for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow, even as a Russian missile strike in Ukraine wounded scores of people.

President Trump announced on Monday that a 25% tariff would be imposed on U.S. trade with any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela, a retaliatory move for illegal Venezuelan immigration of criminals into the U.S. and further his policy of securing America’s borders.

The anti-Hamas mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, has been suspended and jailed ahead of a corruption trial despite tens of thousands of protesters demanding his freedom.

Pope Francis has appeared in public for the first time in five weeks after an extensive hospitalization and will soon meet British King Charles III, officials said.

Just days after calling Israel “a terror state that feeds on blood,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the biggest protests in a decade following the detention of his anti-Hamas political rival Ekrem Imamoglu.

The U.S. House has begun debate on two articles of impeachment against U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis, with a vote expected later Tuesday.

A federal appeals court dealt former President Donald Trump’s defense a major blow Tuesday when it said he doesn’t have presidential immunity to protect him from charges of election interference in his Washington D.C. case.

On Monday, a historic storm unleashed unprecedented rainfall over Los Angeles, triggering landslides of mud and boulders in areas filled with multimillion-dollar homes and forcing those in homeless encampments throughout the city to seek safety. The severe weather conditions resulted in over 1 million people across the state losing power.

Six Pro-Life activists face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of violating federal law for a protest outside an abortion clinic in Tennessee.

Many Republicans already are criticizing a border bill expected to be voted on in the U.S. Senate. Former President Donald Trump blasted the proposed legislation Monday, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called it “dead on arrival.”

Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed legislation that would shut down the Qatari state-funded news outlet Al Jazeera in Israel in the event the prime minister decides content being aired by it or other foreign media outlets “harms in a real way” the country’s national security, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Tuesday that his nation’s military carried out an “unintended strike” on “innocent people in the Gaza Strip” that reportedly killed seven international aid workers.

Ultra-Orthodox parties are in “shock” following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that some 13,000 previously exempt Yeshiva students of army age must be recruited into the Israel Defense Forces starting on April 1.

An all-out military confrontation between Israel and Iran appeared on the horizon early Tuesday local time as Iran vowed revenge after Israeli warplanes reportedly destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, killing at least seven people.

An alleged Israeli airstrike near the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday claimed the lives of at least six people, including Mohammed Reza Zahedi, a general in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who oversaw operations in Lebanon and Syria.

Thirteen Christians in Eritrea were released from jail late last month, after being wrongfully imprisoned without charge for 10 years, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

Suspected Islamic Fulani extremists murdered 21 people during an attack in northern Nigeria’s Plateau state last week, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Islamic extremists, including radicalized Fulani herdsmen and members of the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa terror groups, have murdered over 52,000 Christians in Nigeria since 2015.

Christian leaders and civil rights advocates have expressed alarm at Pakistan’s recent passing of the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act 2023, which increases already-harsh punishment for blasphemy offenses against Islam, and the National Commission for Minorities Bill 2023, which places minority rights at risk, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

A Christian teacher in central India has been violently attacked by police and charged with human trafficking for escorting a small group of tribal Christian students by bus from their home state of Chhattisgarh to a Bible institute in Kerala state, with their parents’ consent, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Iran has detained scores of Christians ahead of the first anniversary of the death in custody of a young Kurdish woman, Christians said as more details on the crackdown emerged Friday.