France was gripped by a second wave of nationwide strikes on Thursday, as hundreds of thousands marched against austerity measures and looming budget cuts—unrest that not only deepens the political crisis for President Emmanuel Macron and his new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, but also unfolds in a season many prophecy watchers view as charged with significance.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States is actively working to regain control of Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield, a strategic military installation abandoned during the 2021 withdrawal, calling it “a little breaking news.”

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close pass by Earth in the early hours of Thursday, September 18, according to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s state visit to Britain was overshadowed by an in-flight scare and angry protests as he met King Charles III at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which have not ruled out seeking atomic weapons if under threat, have signed a defense pact pledging that any attack on either nation would be viewed as an attack on both.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a broad wave of strikes Thursday evening against Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon, escalating its campaign against the Iranian-backed terror group’s Radwan Force.

Three Israeli divisions continued a steady push into Gaza City on Thursday, the third day of Operation Gideon’s Chariots II, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seek to seize Hamas’ last stronghold in the enclave.

Israel on Wednesday announced that its long-awaited laser air defense system, known as the “Iron Beam,” is now fully operational following a series of advanced tests. The Defense Ministry and developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said the first batteries will be delivered to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) by the end of the year, marking a historic first for military technology worldwide.

The European Commission on Wednesday formally unveiled a proposal to sanction far-right Israeli ministers and partially suspend the European Union’s association agreement with Israel, marking a dramatic escalation of Europe’s response to the war in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Monday formally opened the restored Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem’s City of David, the ancient thoroughfare once used by Jewish worshipers ascending to the Temple Mount during the Second Temple era.

FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday that while the U.S. southern border has been largely sealed, the threat of terrorist infiltration has shifted northward, with a sharp rise in encounters along the Canadian frontier.

Bank of America’s closure of accounts belonging to a Tennessee church elder and missionary has become a flashpoint in a national fight over alleged “debanking” of Christians and conservatives, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported in an exclusive investigation.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he is designating Antifa as a “major terrorist organization,” citing a wave of violent protests and last week’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered interest rates for the first time in nine months, citing signs of a cooling labor market and persistent uncertainty in the U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night accused the Biden administration of targeting slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, as part of a sweeping FBI investigation that he said was designed to silence political opponents.

Authorities in Indonesia’s Central Java Province have halted construction of a church and related tourism compound after pressure from local council members and Muslim groups amid rising anti-Christian incidents in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, sources confirmed Thursday.

A young Christian man is hiding in Pakistan after being falsely accused of making “blasphemous” comments against Islam, an offence that potentially carries the death penalty under the Islamic nation’s strict blasphemy legislation, Worthy News learned Thursday.

Suspected Islamist gunmen on motorbikes have killed at least 22 people in Niger, including about 15 at a baptism ceremony and seven more nearby, officials and witnesses said. In neighboring Nigeria, a Christian farmer in the Abuja area separately told Worthy News he miraculously escaped armed men raiding his land.

At least nine people have died in Pakistan’s Punjab province when a rescue boat capsized during flood relief efforts, authorities confirmed over the weekend amid massive death and destruction that also impacted the Islamic nation’s tiny Christian minority.

A pastor in Southern California was shot and killed inside his home, authorities and church members said, shocking a close-knit evangelical community in the rural town of Ramona east of the city of San Diego near the U.S.–Mexico border.