Hours after President Donald Trump declared that the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was “over,” American forces launched a second wave of strikes against Iran, widening a fast-moving crisis that began with Tehran’s attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

UN Watch released a report Wednesday accusing UNESCO of repeatedly identifying alleged Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives killed in Gaza as journalists, while failing to correct the record after terror affiliations were later reported or acknowledged.

The Trump administration is crediting its aggressive law-and-order agenda for a historic decline in homicides across major U.S. cities, as early crime data points to some of the lowest murder rates recorded in more than a century.

A new AP-NORC poll has put numbers behind a political earthquake long felt by Israel’s supporters: the Democratic Party’s base is turning sharply against the Jewish state. After nearly two years of war following Hamas’ October 7 massacre, Democratic voters are no longer merely criticizing Israeli policy; growing numbers now believe America is too supportive of Israel, too unsupportive of the Palestinians, and willing to embrace accusations against Israel that Republicans overwhelmingly reject.

Iranian authorities are moving to confiscate Tehran’s historic St. Peter’s Evangelical Church and evict Christian families from the church compound, marking another escalation in the Islamic Republic’s long campaign to suppress Protestant Christianity and restrict public Christian worship.

At least three people were killed and dozens more injured Wednesday as Russia and Ukraine exchanged fresh long-range attacks, while Kyiv struck deep inside Russia, forcing the shutdown of the country’s largest oil refinery and raising fresh concerns about the Kremlin’s fuel supplies.

The NATO military alliance, long seen as a symbol of unity among Western allies, faced growing internal strife Wednesday as Denmark vowed to defend its territory after U.S. President Donald J. Trump again insisted that the United States should control the strategically located Arctic territory of Greenland.

A court in Pakistan’s Punjab province has acquitted Dennis Albert, a Christian man who had spent nearly 19 months in custody in a blasphemy case, but concerns remained Wednesday over the safety of Christians in the region after reports that another Christian family’s home was torched in an alleged revenge attack.

More than 1,000 suspected human traffickers have been arrested and over 2,000 victims identified in one of the world’s largest coordinated crackdowns on modern slavery, the international police organization Interpol announced.

Italy says it will stop responding to what it called provocative remarks by U.S. President Donald J. Trump in an effort to avoid further tensions between the NATO allies.