The World Economic Forum (WEF) will host political and business leaders in Switzerland to discuss an unknown disease that allegedly could kill “20 times” more people than the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Netherlands faces political turmoil after information leaked that a Dutch engineer was named as the person responsible for sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program shortly before he died in Dubai.

Voters in Taiwan elected pro-Western Lai Ching-te as the island’s next president despite China’s threat to intervene militarily.

The European Union entered the weekend after days of upheaval resembling the Nazi era in two of its largest economies, Germany and Italy.

The Middle East was rapidly moving towards a broader armed conflict Friday as Iran-backed groups pledged revenge for massive overnight U.S.-led military strikes in Yemen.

Ukraine’s embattled president suffered a domestic political defeat Friday as parliament refused to consider a conscription bill that proposes a crackdown on draft dodgers.

Malaysia has become the latest nation to start rolling out a digital identity document system called MyDigital ID, despite security concerns and fears of more government control over people’s lives.

After weeks of continuous attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, coalition forces, led by the U.S. and the U.K., initiated major retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. This operation, marking the first significant counteroffensive against the Houthis, was supported by coalition partners from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Bahrain.

Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has declared a state of emergency across the Pacific island nation as at least 16 people were killed in unrest sparked by anger over a sudden pay cut to police and public sector workers.

At least 10 people were killed as Ecuador plunged further into civil war Wednesday, a day after gunmen stormed a television station in the country’s largest city.

The United States and Britain confirmed Wednesday that their militaries shot down 21 drones and missiles over the Red Sea launched by Yemen’s Houthis in what London branded the “largest attack” yet by the Iran-backed group.

Hungary, one of Israel’s closest allies within the European Union, has condemned the “legal attack” launched against Israel for alleged “genocíde” at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.

Ukraine’s president rushed to the Baltics on Wednesday to seek help as his nation faces a barrage of drone and missile attacks that have killed scores of people in recent days.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) warned Wednesday that “false and misleading information” supercharged by artificial intelligence (AI) is a bigger risk to the global economy now than the reported “climate change.”

Marking the 25th anniversary of the euro, the European Union’s unified currency, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), highlighted that the development of their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is not intended to replace traditional cash, but rather to complement it.