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Footage obtained by Worthy News on Saturday purportedly shows two nurses shielding two infants in China’s Yunnan province from the impacts of a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people in neighboring Myanmar and Thailand. “A touching moment during the tragedy,” said Tong Bingxue, an author and historian providing visual content about Greater China.

The death toll of an earthquake that turned even skyscrapers into rubble in Myanmar and Thailand was rapidly rising Thursday, with officials saying more than 150 people were killed and 700 injured.

A knife-wielding assailant in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, seriously wounded five people in what the government said may have been a deliberate terrorist attack.

In a stark warning to lawmakers, General Anthony J. Cotton, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Strategic Forces yesterday, revealing that Iran has significantly advanced its nuclear capabilities.

The European Union has urged its 450 million citizens to stockpile food, water, and other essentials to last at least 72 hours amid mounting concerns that the war in Ukraine will escalate into a broader armed conflict.

The head of America’s biggest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, has been killed in an apparently “targeted attack” following an early morning shooting outside an investor meeting in New York, police say.

The US Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic published a 520-page report on the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday (December 2). The report concluded that the virus was most likely “leaked” from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and reported bipartisan findings on the advancement and management of the crisis in the US.

President-elect Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son, Hunter, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.”

US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor and the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense during the first Trump presidency, to the position of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Christian Lebanese-born billionaire, and father-in-law to his daughter Tiffany, his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs at a time of mounting tensions in Israel and the region.

After an empty school in central Israel was damaged by a partially intercepted Houthi missile overnight, Israel carried out retaliatory air strikes in Yemen which killed nine people on Thursday morning, Deutsche Welle (DW) reports. No one was injured in the Houthi strike but extensive damage was caused to the school and to surrounding cars in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv.

Sparking UN concerns that Israel may seek to annex the bordering 1974 demilitarized buffer zone in Syrian territory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Israel Defense Forces will remain in that area until another arrangement is in place “that ensures Israel’s security,” the Associated Press reports.

Having blamed both the US and Israel for the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of Islamic insurgents Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 1, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Tuesday that Israelis would be “greatly mistaken” to think the uprising in next-door Syria is now over, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Israel carried out one of its most intense military campaigns in Syria in over a decade, striking air defense systems, missile depots, and strategic sites in Tartus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described the strikes as the “heaviest in years,” with massive explosions registering as a magnitude 3.0 seismic event. Videos on social media captured fireballs and mushroom clouds lighting up the night sky.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered an ancient sword engraved with a hieroglyphic representing the royal rule of Ramesses II, the Pharoah recorded in the Biblical Book of Exodus as having refused Moses’ request to let the enslaved Israelites go, Archaeology News (AN) reports.

“Islamist terrorists” have killed 18 Christians in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in separate attacks, well-informed aid workers say.

A Christian in Somalia has refused to denounce Jesus even after being violently attacked three times by Islamic relatives for his faith, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Constitutionally, an Islamic state whose government forbids the propagation of other religions, 

Often overcoming fear and suspicion, Christians in Lebanon are reaching out to help Shiite Muslims who have been displaced amid Israel’s ground invasion of southern Lebanese areas suspected of housing the Shiite Hezbollah terror group, Christianity Today reports exclusively.

Caught in the crosshairs of the raging civil war in Sudan, a group of male Christian refugees were arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Military Intelligence unit in Shendi, River Nile State, between October 12-13, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports. 

The US-based evangelistic Luis Palau Association partnered with 4,900 churches to hold a three-day Gospel festival in Zambia that reached nearly half a million people, Christian Daily International.