Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose government has taken control of numerous media outlets and shut down critical voices, has praised Donald J. Trump for scaling back the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), claiming it allegedly funded left-wing media.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested that the United States should provide Ukraine with alternative security guarantees, including nuclear weapons if the country is not admitted to the NATO military alliance.

US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council and that it will not resume funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) the Associated Press reports.

Following a visit by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the weekend, Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino announced his intention to terminate major trade and development pact with China and stated he is interested in American investment in Panamanian infrastructure instead, the New York Post reports.

At least 10 people have been killed in what the prime minister described as Sweden’s worst mass shooting in the Nordic nation’s history.

Six American hostages who were imprisoned in Venezuela in recent months were released on Saturday as part of a deal negotiated by White House envoy Richard Grenell.

US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he plans to reinstate the “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran that he practiced during his first term, in order to drive Tehran’s oil exports down to zero and prevent the regime from developing a nuclear bomb, a US official told Reuters.

US President Donald Trump has announced he is suspending all US funding to black-majority South Africa over the country’s recent implementation of Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, a bill that allows the government to confiscate privately owned land for a public purpose or in the public interest.

At least five people were shot at a Swedish school Tuesday, officials said, adding that emergency services have responded massively to the ongoing attack in the town of Örebro, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Stockholm, the capital.

Conservative nationalist Bart De Wever has been sworn in as Belgium’s new prime minister after he toned down his rhetoric to make the nation’s Dutch-speaking Vlaanderen (Flanders) region an independent country.

The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, seen by Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has been assassinated in Moscow, Russian officials announced Monday.

Governments in the Netherlands and Germany were under pressure Monday to halt the influx of migrants from mainly Muslim nations as more details emerged about deadly knife attacks in which children were among those killed.

Israel faced another major security threat Monday after Iran unveiled a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that it said was capable of traveling 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles), making the Jewish nation within reach of the Islamic Republic.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap tariffs on the BRICS 10-member-state intergovernmental organization if the group seeks to replace the American dollar with a new reserve currency, the Hill reports. Trump’s announcement follows fresh on the heels of his decision to impose tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada starting February 1.

At least 773 people were reportedly killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city of Goma and its vicinity last week amid fighting between government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels.