Hungary’s recently elected President, Tamás Sulyok, has urged his nation to “respectfully and honestly” remember the victims of the Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, in which some 600,000 Hungarian Jews died.

Elections in Croatia were expected to decide whether the Balkan nation will move closer to Russia or remain on its pro-Western course.

The United States and European allies have pledged more sanctions against Iran, but differences remain on whether to designate the country’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

The Polish parliament is to debate overturning what critics view as Europe’s most restrictive abortion regulations despite thousands of protesters saying it could violate the rights of the unborn.

Pascal Sleiman, a well-known senior figure in Lebanon’s Christian Lebanese Forces (CLF) party was abducted and shot dead in the country’s Byblos area last week. The news has caused outrage in Lebanon’s Christian community.

Azerbaijan on Monday in the Netherlands urged the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Lawyers argued that judges do not have jurisdiction over the trial.

Wartorn, Ukraine’s military chief, warned that the battlefield situation in the industrial east has “significantly worsened in recent days.” It comes amid concerns that warming weather allows Russian forces to launch a fresh push along several stretches of the more 1,000 km-long (620-mile) front line.

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, in a case that shocked the nation.

The Vatican has condemned the European Parliament’s decision to include the “right to abortion” in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Authorities say hundreds of settlements in Ukraine are without power following Russian drone and missile strikes which killed at least five people. The attacks came shortly after Ukraine’s parliament voted for a mobilization law to increase manpower following massive losses on the battlefields in the country’s more than two-year war against Russia’s invading military.

Transatlantic political alarm bells are ringing over plans by world leaders to sign an international pandemics treaty that critics say will give the World Health Organization (WHO) unprecedented power over sovereign nations.

Hungary on Thursday condemned plans for a NATO military alliance mission in Ukraine saying it could lead to a broader war within six months.

Ukraine’s parliament has passed a mobilization bill to send more men to the battlefields in the war against Russia that has already killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people.

The UK’s National Health Service of England has published a major study showing there is “remarkably weak evidence” to support treating gender-questioning children and young adults with sex-change hormones and surgeries, the Washington Times reports. Titled “The Cass Review,” the four-year study was commissioned by the NHS and led by Dr. Hilary Cass.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Wednesday that Iran is on a fast track towards an atomic bomb.