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Nine students who were abducted from Nigeria’s Confluence University of Science and Technology last week have all now been rescued, Reuters reports.

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt outside the capital Bratislava. The motives of the gunman were not immediately clear, but it comes after a period of political turmoil in the Eastern European nation.

A pro-life activist with a history of organizing blockades of abortion clinics has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for leading the blockade of an abortion facility in Washington, DC, in 2020.

French President Emmanuel Macron and other officials have forcefully condemned Tuesday’s antisemitic graffiti attack on Paris’ Wall of the Righteous Holocaust Memorial, AFP reports. 

Israeli tanks advanced deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching residential areas of the southern border city, where over a million displaced individuals had sought refuge amid the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

A coalition of Republican and Democratic lawmakers, nearly 700 Jewish professors, and others oppose an antisemitism bill sent to the U.S. Senate, arguing it’s unconstitutional and doesn’t adequately address antisemitism.

After years of debate, the European Union is introducing new migration and asylum rules that include tougher borders and shared responsibility among the bloc’s 27 members amid concerns about a massive influx of millions of migrants from mainly Muslim nations in recent years.

Authorities said Tuesday that at least 52 people were killed by flash floods and mudslides in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, and more than 3,000 people have been evacuated.

Voting along party lines, the Republican-led House has approved a bill that would break with 230 years of practice by adding a question on citizenship to the census: the move would cut non-citizens from the decennial count and reduce the number of seats held by states with high non-citizen populations relative to other states.

Asserting its decision has “nothing to do” with the current crises in the Middle East, Jordan has announced it will join 32 other countries to participate in this year’s “Eager Lion” military exercises involving each country’s ground, naval, and air forces, the Times of Israel reports.