Members of a Christian family of nine say they fear for their lives after being freed through court intervention from a brick kiln in eastern Pakistan following 11 years of alleged forced labor, beatings, threats and severely reduced wages.

Slovakia’s government of Prime Minister Robert Fico has approved joining an international commission assessing compensation claims stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite Moscow reportedly warning that such a move would be considered a “hostile act.”

More than a dozen members of Serbia’s influential student movement and opposition figures were targeted with sophisticated spyware ahead of parliamentary elections, according to investigators, fueling concerns about government surveillance in what researchers call the country’s largest documented wave of such spying.

Estonia’s parliament has elected constitutional lawyer and human rights ombudsman Ülle Madise as the Baltic nation’s next president as the country sharply increases defense spending amid concerns about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Hungary’s new government plans to impose an annual wealth tax on the country’s richest residents from next year as authorities widen investigations into billions of Hungarian forints in spending under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its latest executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, marking another legal setback in President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who qualifies as an American citizen at birth.

Russia secretly assisted Iran in developing advanced supersonic cruise missile technology that could threaten U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other American military assets in the Middle East, according to a new Financial Times investigation.

Elon Musk told a G20 innovation summit that humanoid robots could become one of the most disruptive forces in the global economy, predicting that at least 1 billion such machines may be operating within the next 10 years.

House Republicans forced Democrats into a politically charged vote Wednesday on a proposed constitutional amendment that would permanently limit the U.S. Supreme Court to nine justices, a direct response to renewed progressive calls to expand the court.

President Donald Trump sought to reassure Israel on Wednesday as renewed fighting between the United States and Iran raised fears of a broader regional escalation, saying Israel “should not worry” and predicting the conflict with Tehran would not last much longer.