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India and Russia have agreed to deepen cooperation in defense, trade, energy — including nuclear power — as well as critical minerals and high-tech manufacturing, despite mounting U.S. pressure and punitive trade measures.

President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to sign the Washington Accords, a peace pact the three leaders say will end a 30-year conflict in eastern Congo — even as fighting continues on the ground.

Budapest, Hungary’s capital and its political, economic, and cultural heart, risks becoming insolvent — the municipal equivalent of bankruptcy — a crisis the opposition blames on the right-wing government’s tax policies.

Hungary and possibly neighboring Slovakia will challenge a European Union decision to phase out Russian energy sources at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

The U.S. unveils sweeping visa bans targeting individuals behind anti-Christian violence in Nigeria.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio cites authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to block visas for perpetrators and family members.
Attacks on churches and schools–including mass abductions–prompted President Donald Trump to designate Nigeria a “country of particular concern.”
The policy applies globally, signaling a broader U.S. effort to confront violations of religious freedom worldwide.

Two West Virginia National Guard members were critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in an ambush-style shooting just two blocks from the White House, triggering lockdowns, heavy police presence, and an immediate expansion of federal troop deployments in Washington, D.C.

A prominent U.S. senator who served as a Navy pilot and later as an astronaut faces a Pentagon investigation — and a possible court-martial — after joining a handful of lawmakers in a video urging U.S. troops to refuse “illegal orders” under President Donald J. Trump.

The U.S. Space Force has quietly awarded roughly half a dozen “Golden Dome” contracts to build competing space-based missile-defense prototypes, kicking off an industry race for future production deals worth tens of billions of dollars, according to multiple sources briefed on the awards.

The Trump administration late on Nov. 25 filed a notice of appeal challenging a federal district court ruling that ordered the government to halt its months-long deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.

Crime-ridden Chicago on Monday faced the prospect of a bleak Christmas after shootings rocked the heart of this U.S. city, killing one person and injuring at least eight others, authorities said.

The Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday that it uncovered one of the most extensive and sophisticated Hamas tunnel systems discovered to date, a sprawling underground route running more than seven kilometers (4.3 miles) and plunging approximately 25 meters (82 feet) underground beneath Rafah.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump met Thursday with a group of freed Israeli hostages and their loved ones at the White House, praising the survivors as “heroes” and vowing continued support for efforts to return remaining captives held in Gaza.

The United States has begun a rapid diplomatic and operational drive to assemble the newly authorized International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza, launching the effort mere hours after the UN Security Council overwhelmingly approved its deployment.

Israeli intelligence revealed Wednesday that a sweeping joint investigation with European security agencies has uncovered a network of Hamas-linked terror cells operating across Europe, with recent plots traced back to Qatar and possibly Turkey, where senior Hamas officials maintain political offices.

Israel carried out large-scale strikes in both southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as part of renewed operations against remnants of Hezbollah and Hamas, killing scores of people despite a cease-fire that was meant to be holding, authorities and investigators said Wednesday.

A Christian mission group has confirmed that its CEO and his daughter were killed when their small plane carrying humanitarian aid for hurricane-hit Jamaica crashed in a South Florida neighborhood, Worthy News established on Wednesday.

A high court in Pakistan has ordered the release “on bail” of a Christian woman who spent more than a year in prison on what rights activists say were false accusations of blasphemy against Islam.

A Hungarian Methodist pastor who faces prison on what he views as trumped-up charges and a government crackdown on dissent told thousands of supporters in Budapest that he would remain faithful to his Christian mission.

More than 50 prominent Christian leaders are calling on President Trump to directly confront Syria’s new president about the ongoing persecution of religious minorities when the two leaders meet Monday at the White House, marking a historic first for U.S.-Syria relations.

A Christian widow in Pakistan’s Punjab province is devastated after her married daughter went missing, while elsewhere in the region, a mother of four and a mother of six have also disappeared following alleged abductions by Muslim men, Worthy News learned Saturday.