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An Air India plane bound for London crashed shortly after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing 242 people on board in the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade, officials confirmed.

The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported, marking a 9% year-over-year decline as rising revenues and calendar adjustments pointed to potential fiscal improvement. When accounting for timing shifts in benefit payments, the adjusted deficit narrowed to $219 billion, a 17% drop compared to May 2024.

In a striking shift after more than a decade of decline, a growing share of Americans now say religion is becoming more influential in American society, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.

Argentinian President Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his country will officially relocate its embassy in Israel from the Tel Aviv area to Jerusalem in 2026, marking a significant diplomatic shift and further solidifying his pro-Israel stance. The declaration was made during a special plenary session of the Knesset held in his honor, where Milei was met with enthusiastic praise from Israel’s top leadership.

Iran on Thursday vowed to dramatically escalate its uranium enrichment efforts in direct response to a formal censure by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sharply raising the stakes in an already volatile standoff with the West and fueling fears of imminent military conflict.

In a sharp departure from past U.S. administrations, the U.S. Embassy in Israel will boycott this year’s Tel Aviv Pride parade and will not participate in any Pride Month activities, citing the “priorities of the Trump administration,” according to a report by Haaretz.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has accused Hamas of launching a deadly attack on one of its buses late Wednesday, killing at least five local staffers, wounding others, and possibly taking some as hostages. The incident marks a violent escalation in tensions surrounding the distribution of foreign aid in Gaza.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog formally declared Iran in violation of its non-proliferation commitments on Thursday, marking the first such resolution in nearly two decades and igniting fears of renewed nuclear escalation in the Middle East.

Britain and Spain have agreed to mend fences over the future of the contested tiny, rocky territory of Gibraltar at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, following years of tense negotiations.

A bill to dissolve the Knesset was narrowly defeated in a preliminary reading early Thursday morning, following a breakthrough agreement with ultra-Orthodox parties over military draft legislation. The motion was voted down 61–53, preserving the fragile governing coalition for now.