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The Netherlands remained on edge Tuesday after a car drove into a crowd of people waiting to watch a Christmas parade in the eastern Dutch town of Nunspeet, injuring numerous people at a time when Europe has faced several threats against holiday events.

Officials say massive Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine have killed at least three people, including a four-year-old child, while cutting power to several regions just two days before Christmas, as the country faces bitter winter cold.

The United States has seized another crude oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking the second such operation in less than two weeks as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his government.

Ukraine’s military says it is attempting to halt a Russian incursion into a border village in the northeastern Sumy region, even as diplomatic efforts continue to seek an end to the nearly four-year war.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for “peaceful coexistence” as his nation marked the first anniversary of a deadly car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany that revived a debate about the influx of migrants from mainly Muslim countries.

An investigation was underway Monday after a mass shooting at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island in the U.S. state of South Carolina claimed four lives and injured at least 20 others, authorities said.

The United States is barreling toward what could become the longest government shutdown in American history, now entering its third week with no end in sight and both sides dug in over a partisan spending standoff.

The United States and Qatar have signed a landmark defense agreement that will see Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — a move underscoring both nations’ expanding military and diplomatic ties following the Gaza ceasefire deal.

A U.S. military team of 200 personnel will be deployed across the Middle East to help oversee the newly brokered Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, senior U.S. officials confirmed Thursday, marking the next phase of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace initiative.

The U.S. federal government ended fiscal year 2025 with a $1.8 trillion budget deficit, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)–a figure only marginally smaller than last year’s record shortfall, even as tariff revenue surged under President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a broad wave of strikes Thursday evening against Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon, escalating its campaign against the Iranian-backed terror group’s Radwan Force.

Three Israeli divisions continued a steady push into Gaza City on Thursday, the third day of Operation Gideon’s Chariots II, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seek to seize Hamas’ last stronghold in the enclave.

Israel on Wednesday announced that its long-awaited laser air defense system, known as the “Iron Beam,” is now fully operational following a series of advanced tests. The Defense Ministry and developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said the first batteries will be delivered to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) by the end of the year, marking a historic first for military technology worldwide.

The European Commission on Wednesday formally unveiled a proposal to sanction far-right Israeli ministers and partially suspend the European Union’s association agreement with Israel, marking a dramatic escalation of Europe’s response to the war in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Monday formally opened the restored Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem’s City of David, the ancient thoroughfare once used by Jewish worshipers ascending to the Temple Mount during the Second Temple era.

“A brutal assault” on a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan’s Punjab province has highlighted discrimination and violence against impoverished minority laborers across the Islamic nation, investigators say.

A Christian ceremony to bless farm crops in India’s eastern Odisha state turned into “a brutal assault,” leaving at least 30 Christians injured, 10 of whom were hospitalized with critical wounds, Christians said Thursday.

A horrific massacre unfolded Sunday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Islamic State-affiliated jihadists beheaded at least 49 Christians–nine of them children–during a church service in the village of Komanda. The attackers, members of the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), stormed a church where believers had gathered from surrounding villages to celebrate a Silver Jubilee and to pray for peace amid ongoing violence.

A Cuban pastor disappeared under mysterious circumstances this month, adding to growing international concern over religious repression on the island. Pastor Maikel Pupu Velázquez vanished shortly after delivering epilepsy medication to a family connected to Cuba’s dissident movement, only to reappear hours later clearly traumatized and mentally distressed.

Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in the country’s northwestern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, officials said Tuesday.