Typhoon Noul struck China’s southern coast early Sunday, forcing more than 800,000 people from their homes, disrupting hundreds of flights, and prompting the nation’s highest-level warning for potentially deadly flash floods.

President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to approve the House’s $95 billion budget resolution before Congress leaves for the month of August.

Israel’s Security Cabinet approved in principle Sunday the deployment of an international stabilization force in parts of the Gaza Strip, clearing the way for an initial reconstruction and humanitarian project in Rafah.

Turkey has not met the conditions required to purchase American F-35 fighter jets, the U.S. State Department said, despite President Donald Trump recently signaling that he would support reviving the long-stalled sale.

A Russian ballistic missile strike near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv killed at least 10 people and wounded nearly 100 others Friday, Ukrainian officials said, as neighboring Romania, a member of the NATO military alliance, announced it had shot down a drone that entered its airspace.

Tens of thousands of people fled by road and boat as devastating wildfires swept across parts of Spain and southwestern France on Friday, fueled by an intense heatwave, powerful winds, and tinder-dry conditions.

Christians worldwide were urged to pray after Chinese police reportedly raided several house churches in the city of Yueyang in central China’s Hunan Province, detaining numerous believers in what advocacy groups described as the latest crackdown on unregistered congregations.

Russia has added a U.S.-based Christian ministry focused on evangelizing children and caring for minors to its list of “undesirable organizations,” raising concerns about the safety of its workers as well as churches and organizations using the ministry’s materials, sources told Worthy News.

Hungary’s Prosecutor General Bálint Gábor Nagy resigned Wednesday unexpectedly, saying the Prosecutor’s Office must never become “an instrument of political struggle” as political turmoil deepened.

Thousands of Jewish worshipers ascended the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, turning the solemn fast over the destruction of the biblical Temples into a striking display of renewed Jewish prayer at the contested holy site. The scenes underscored a profound shift now unfolding in Jerusalem, where mourning over the Temples’ destruction is increasingly joined by open calls for restored Jewish worship—and, among a growing number of activists, the rebuilding of the Temple itself.