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Days after U.S. President Donald J. Trump oversaw renewed peace efforts in Israel and predicted a “new dawn” for the Middle East, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its 2025 economic growth forecast for the region but cautioned that global risks continue to weigh on the outlook.

Japan on Tuesday elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister, marking a historic political shift in the world’s third-largest economy.

French authorities said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a daring daylight heist at the Louvre Museum over the weekend are worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) — excluding their immense historical value to France.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that American airstrikes had wiped out Iran’s nuclear industry, telling the president to “keep dreaming.”

Concerns mounted Monday over the fate of a bishop and 12 clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church who were detained amid a deepening standoff between church leaders and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government — a dispute unfolding as Christians in the region face growing pressure.

In what officials have hailed as the most successful child recovery operation in U.S. history, 60 critically missing children were rescued in Florida’s Tampa Bay area as part of “Operation Dragon Eye.” The operation, led by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for the Central District of Florida, was announced at a press conference on June 23 by Florida State Attorney James Uthmeier and U.S. Marshal William Berger.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is arresting nearly 1,200 illegal immigrants per day and detaining over 56,000, setting new records as the agency intensifies efforts to fulfill President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations. Daily deportations have topped 1,100 as ICE scrambles to move migrants out of the country as fast as they are apprehended.

As America marks the third anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision — a historic Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and restored the people’s right to protect life through their elected officials — pro-life advocates are celebrating a legal victory while confronting sobering realities: abortions are on the rise, and the battle to defend the unborn is far from over.

The Supreme Court on Monday granted a major victory to President Donald Trump, allowing his administration to resume deporting illegal immigrants to so-called third countries–nations where the deportees have no prior connection. The court’s unsigned order temporarily lifted a lower court injunction that had blocked the removals.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last Thursday it has suspended authorization for all new clinical trials involving the transfer of Americans’ living cells or genetic material to China and other adversarial nations for genetic engineering, following mounting evidence of serious ethical and security breaches.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) firmly rejected accusations Tuesday night that its troops were responsible for the killing of civilians at humanitarian aid distribution points in Gaza, calling the claims “total lies” and accusing Hamas of manipulating the narrative.

The United States has issued a stark warning to its key allies, the United Kingdom and France, against unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state during a high-stakes United Nations conference set for June 17 in New York, Middle East Eye reported Tuesday.

In a rare and controversial move on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, a group of Jewish priests (Kohanim) ascended the Temple Mount and attempted to offer the traditional “Two Loaves” sacrifice at the site believed to be the location of the ancient altar, marking what activists say is the first sacrificial act on the Temple Mount since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry sharply criticized United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday after he called for an “immediate and independent investigation” into deadly shootings near an aid distribution center in southern Gaza–without once mentioning Hamas.

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan and Irish actor Liam Cunningham are among 11 people who set sail to Gaza to bring “urgently needed” humanitarian aid to the war-torn region, organizers said.

The Dream Center Christian charity which provides food and housing for those in need in Los Angeles has reported a surging interest in the Gospel among volunteers who have flocked to help bring relief following the recent devastating California wildfires that killed 24 people and destroyed some 12,000 buildings and homes.

The Boko Haram jihadist insurgent group intensified its attacks on Christians in Nigeria’s Borno state earlier this month, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Seven Sudanese Christian youths were arrested and tortured by intelligence agents of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in the country’s River Nile state on Jan. 14, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Wracked by a civil war launched between the SAF and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF),

A prominent Christian human rights activist who fled his home in Pakistan after facing death for alleged blasphemy against Islam has expressed outrage about the killing of two Christian women and the conviction of four people on blasphemy charges over the weekend.

A pastor who was tortured and imprisoned in Cuba for protesting the government’s violation of human rights was released last week after serving three and half years in jail, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Communist Cuba ranks 26 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2025 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.