Moscow was pondering options in its war against Ukraine on Wednesday, including a pause on air strikes, ahead of the arrival of U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.

One of Pakistan’s main courts has suspended an independent commission that would investigate the misuse of the country’s blasphemy laws after pressure from Islamic hardliners, sources told Worthy News.

In a major shift from the Biden-era approach to arming Ukraine, four European nations have announced the purchase of $1 billion worth of U.S. weapons under a new NATO-led initiative spearheaded by President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed under house arrest on Monday, escalating a high-stakes legal battle over accusations that he attempted to orchestrate a military coup to block the transfer of power following the 2022 election. The move comes after Bolsonaro allegedly violated a court-imposed social media ban and curfew while his trial looms.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, accused of helping organize a banned LGBTQ+ Pride rally, said Saturday he would be proud if his grandchildren someday read that he was prosecuted for speaking out against the “authoritarian system” of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

With much of the world focused on Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people under siege in Sudan’s western Darfur region cried for attention Tuesday as they are running out of food and come under constant artillery and drone barrages.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump may be forgiven for not knowing her personally. Yet Victoria certainly knows him — and the impact of Trump’s decisions on her portfolio, including firing the nation’s top statistician and seeking a new Federal Reserve governor.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced the deployment of two U.S. nuclear submarines to undisclosed locations in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council.

Nearly 600 United Nations employees have passed a rare no-confidence vote against Secretary-General António Guterres, Deputy Secretary-General Guy Ryder, and the controversial UN80 reform plan aimed at overhauling the organization ahead of its 80th anniversary.

China’s tightening grip on the export of critical minerals has thrown U.S. defense manufacturers into crisis mode, delaying weapons production, driving up costs, and exposing the Pentagon’s deep dependence on Beijing for vital components, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.

Authorities say Russia launched a massive missile attack on Kyiv early Sunday, shortly after what is believed to be Moscow’s deadliest airstrike of the year on the Ukrainian capital killed at least 31 people, including five children, and wounded more than 150. The attacks prompted deadly retaliatory strikes by Ukraine on key Russian targets.

Eighty years after World War II, Hungary has commemorated the thousands of Hungarian Roma, often referred to as Gypsies, who perished in the Holocaust.

Under pressure from the European Union and amid growing public unrest, Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday passed a law restoring the independence of the nation’s two key anti-corruption agencies — a move widely seen as vital to its EU membership ambitions.

Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded one of Russia’s few independent newspapers, The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, following an accident, his family confirmed in a statement.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck off the eastern coast of Russia on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings and mass evacuations from Japan and Hawaii to Chile and the U.S. West Coast.