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After a grueling overnight session stretching into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the House Rules Committee voted 8–4 along party lines to advance a bill aimed at ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history — now entering its 42nd day. The measure, supported by all Republicans on the panel, moves next to the full House for a vote Wednesday, where GOP leaders are confident it will pass.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that France will assist the Palestinian Authority (PA) in drafting a constitution for a future Palestinian state, following a meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the Élysée Palace. The move comes as part of France’s broader push to promote a two-state solution after recognizing a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.

Venezuela has launched a massive two-day military mobilization involving nearly 200,000 troops as the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in Latin American waters Tuesday, significantly escalating regional military tensions.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was “deeply saddened” after a Turkish military cargo plane carrying 20 personnel crashed Tuesday in Georgia, near the border with Azerbaijan, and officials feared there were no survivors.

Europe marked the end of World War I with mixed emotions Tuesday, realizing that the armed conflict in Ukraine increasingly resembles the horrors of that era.

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.

Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will prove his innocence after a court agreed to temporarily release him from the prison where he began serving a five-year sentence on October 21, 2025, following a conviction for “criminal conspiracy” linked to alleged Libyan campaign funding.

A British-born academic has left Radboud University in the Netherlands amid rising concerns about antisemitism on Dutch campuses following his highly controversial social-media comments defending Palestinian violence against Israel.

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.

A revised draft of a UN Security Council resolution outlining the “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” is set to be circulated by the United States for review among Security Council members, according to an exclusive report by The Jerusalem Post.