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Two US Christian aid and advocacy organizations have reported that North Korea’s government is so hostile to Christians that it has imprisoned tens of thousands of believers in labor camps described as “comparable to Nazi death camps.”

A court in Vietnam has sentenced an evangelical Christian man to 4 1/2 years imprisonment on charges of “secession and incitement” for holding prayer meetings in his home, the Christian Post reports.

During a visit to Lebanon, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron stated achieving peace would be unattainable as long as Hamas controlled Gaza. However, he emphasized that offering Palestinians the opportunity for statehood was “absolutely vital for the long-term peace and security of the region.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized President Joe Biden for his threat to veto a standalone aid bill for Israel in their “hour of greatest need.”

A new report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) raises serious concerns about Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb, marking a significant escalation by assigning its highest warning level, “Extreme Danger,” for the first time since it started monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities in the 1990s.

Australia was weighing its options Tuesday after a Chinese court gave a suspended death sentence to a prominent China-born Australian pro-democracy activist on Monday. The Australian government, which has repeatedly raised his case over the years, said it was appalled.

The U.S. House has begun debate on two articles of impeachment against U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis, with a vote expected later Tuesday.

Continuing the suspension of its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), the United States announced it is looking to provide assistance to Gaza Palestinians through other aid organizations instead, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Together with several other western powers, the Biden administration suspended its funding of UNRWA last month following credible allegations that 12 of the agency’s staffers had participated in the Hamas’ Oct.7 genocidal attack on Israel.

A federal appeals court dealt former President Donald Trump’s defense a major blow Tuesday when it said he doesn’t have presidential immunity to protect him from charges of election interference in his Washington D.C. case.

Australia has begun unleashing a digital revolution to possibly become the world’s first functionally cashless nation by 2025 after a digital identity (ID) document scheme will be rolled out across the country by July, Worthy News learned Tuesday.