China warned Sunday through a state-run newspaper that the NATO military alliance could expand the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war into World War Three, just days after a former Russian president made similar suggestions.

The United States and Britain launched strikes against 36 targets in Yemen on Saturday, in the second day of major U.S. air assaults against Iran-linked groups after a deadly attack on U.S. troops in Jordan, officials said.

Chile’s president said Saturday that massive forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, and officials warned at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed.

Two European Union capitals faced violence Saturday as a bomb exploded near Greece’s labor ministry in central Athens, while in Paris, France, a man armed with a knife and a hammer injured three people in the bustling Gare de Lyon train station.

The U.S. military so far hit more than 80 targets in Syria and Iraq in a massive retaliatory air assault on sites belonging to Iran-linked militias and Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard, several sources confirmed early Saturday in the Middle East.

Spanish authorities have declared a drought emergency in and around Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city and the capital of its autonomous northeastern Catalonia region.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have reduced the number of their high-ranking officers stationed in Syria following a series of fatal strikes attributed to Israel according to the Reuters News Agency.

European Union leaders have agreed to create a 50 billion euro ($54 billion) fund for Ukraine after getting on board Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had threatened to veto the deal.

The United States Central Command announced Wednesday it carried out a preemptive strike against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels by destroying a missile the military said posed an “imminent threat” to US aircraft, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

China’s reported practice of forcibly harvesting organs from religious minority prisoners was at the center of an address by US House Speaker Mike Johnson at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington DC on Wednesday, Newsweek reports. Johnson referenced the practice by the Chinese Communist Party amid a warning that world governments become “tyrannical” when they suppress religious freedom.

The United States says the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan was carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.

The NATO military alliance has begun its largest exercise since the Cold War, involving 90,000 troops as several European nations prepare for a possible war with Russia.

The Israeli ambassador to Sweden said Wednesday that the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, the capital, was the target of an “attempted attack.”

Antisemitic acts in France nearly quadrupled in 2023, compared to the previous year, according to a warning from the country’s leading Jewish interest group. The Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif) attributed this sharp increase in incidents to the aftermath of the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

Hungary has condemned a leaked secret European Union plan to cripple Hungary’s economy if Prime Minister Viktor Orbán decides this week again to block a 50 billion euro ($54.2 billion) EU aid package for wartorn Ukraine.