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At least 10 people have been killed in what the prime minister described as Sweden’s worst mass shooting in the Nordic nation’s history.

Six American hostages who were imprisoned in Venezuela in recent months were released on Saturday as part of a deal negotiated by White House envoy Richard Grenell.

US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he plans to reinstate the “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran that he practiced during his first term, in order to drive Tehran’s oil exports down to zero and prevent the regime from developing a nuclear bomb, a US official told Reuters.

US President Donald Trump has announced he is suspending all US funding to black-majority South Africa over the country’s recent implementation of Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, a bill that allows the government to confiscate privately owned land for a public purpose or in the public interest.

At least five people were shot at a Swedish school Tuesday, officials said, adding that emergency services have responded massively to the ongoing attack in the town of Örebro, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Stockholm, the capital.

Conservative nationalist Bart De Wever has been sworn in as Belgium’s new prime minister after he toned down his rhetoric to make the nation’s Dutch-speaking Vlaanderen (Flanders) region an independent country.

The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, seen by Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has been assassinated in Moscow, Russian officials announced Monday.

A respected elder of the Celestial Church of Christ, Eagle Parish, in Ogun state, Nigeria, was shot dead when three gunmen invaded the Sunday service on January 19, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A house-church preacher in Guandong, China, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for conducting “illegal business operations” by distributing his church’s Christian literature, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

The Trump administration has requested congressional approval for a $1 billion arms transfer to Israel, including 4,700 1,000-pound bombs worth over $700 million and Caterpillar-built armored bulldozers valued at $300 million, even as the White House works to maintain a fragile Gaza ceasefire, the Wall Street Journal reported.