Despite concerns about a subsequent direct confrontation with Russia, member states are expected to declare that Ukraine has an “irreversible” path to joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance that obligates members to protect each other from any threat, Politico reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the United States and its allies to take decisive action against Russia as his nation plunged into mourning following a suspected Russian strike at Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital in Kyiv and other sites that authorities said killed at least 42 people and injured more than 100 others. Zelenskyy’s appeal came at the start of a NATO military alliance summit in Washington, although Moscow denied responsibility for the deaths.

Recent satellite images show that major expansions are underway at two key missile facilities in Iran, suggesting Tehran is working to boost its conventional ballistic missile production, Reuters and Algemeiner report.

A Christian government minister in Malaysia is suing a top police official who accused her of evangelizing Malay Muslims in order to turn the country into a Christian nation, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. 

Hungary’s prime minister defended his controversial trip to communist-run China to talk about peace in Ukraine, where officials said scores of people were killed and injured Monday in Russian attacks on a children’s hospital and other sites.

U.S.-based Boeing, one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers, agreed late Sunday to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government in a case linked to crashes of its 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.

Ukrainian officials say Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 29 people and smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv. The rare daytime Russian barrage came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Warsaw before he flew to the NATO military alliance summit in Washington.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a two-day state visit to Russia starting on Monday (July 8), Reuters reports.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived in Beijing on Monday as part of unprecedented efforts to reach peace in Ukraine despite anger from some European Union leaders. He came to meet China’s President Xi Jinping after talks with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and earlier Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Tensions remained high in the streets of Kenya’s capital Monday after dozens of activists said they were snatched from their homes or off the streets by hooded, armed men.

In an unexpected, stunning outcome, the French left managed to beat a surging far right in the second and final round of legislative elections, winning the most parliamentary seats but not a majority, polling projections showed early Monday.

Diplomatic tensions are rising between Germany and Hungary after Budapest canceled a meeting between Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, planned for Monday in the Hungarian capital. The unusual last-minute cancellation of the German minister’s visit to Budapest comes after Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other European Union leaders condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as part of a self-declared peace mission for the war in Ukraine.

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran’s new president, beating his hardline conservative rival Saeed Jalili, but it was unclear whether hardline policies toward minority Christians would change.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, one of Europe’s most pro-Russian leaders, met Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday as part of his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, despite condemnation from the European Union.

Recently elected Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said Friday that his loved ones were “astonished” after his first parliamentary debate turned into the most turbulent political session in the Netherlands’ recent political history sparked by sharp disagreements over the role of Islam in society.