Activists and doctors said Tuesday Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests could be as high as 36,500, far more than at least 6,159 people, reported earlier, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Middle East amid rising tensions and warnings of possible further unrest.

Four and a half years of difficult legal proceedings have ended for two Christian nurses in Pakistan’s Punjab province after both were acquitted of blasphemy charges, Christians told Worthy News Tuesday.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Tuesday that Europe remains incapable of defending itself without American military support, saying European nations would need to more than double current defense spending to stand on their own.

TikTok has agreed to settle a landmark U.S. lawsuit accusing social-media companies of deliberately addicting and harming children, just days before the case was due to go to trial, attorneys for the plaintiffs confirmed Tuesday.

India and the European Union have finalized a historic free trade agreement after nearly two decades of negotiations, leaders said Tuesday, in a pact set to reshape global commerce amid rising economic uncertainty and strained ties with the United States.

Senate Republicans’ hopes of finishing the government funding process without incident were dashed over the weekend with a second fatal shooting of a protester in Minneapolis.

Nations around the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with ceremonies and warnings against antisemitism and historical distortion, honoring the victims of the Nazi genocide as the number of living survivors continues to decline.

Bangladeshi migrant workers say they were deceived into traveling to Russia for civilian jobs, only to be forced into military service and sent to fight in Ukraine, according to an investigation published Tuesday.

The U.S. dollar is coming under pressure in the early weeks of 2026 as investors reassess long-held assumptions about the stability of the world’s dominant currency amid rising geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, financial markets and analysts say.

Israel is firmly rejecting any attempt to allow Hamas to retain influence or authority in Gaza, as the terrorist organization pushes to embed roughly 10,000 of its police officers into a new U.S.-backed governing framework for the enclave.