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Antisemitic violence worldwide reached its deadliest level in more than three decades during 2025, according to a new report documenting a sharp escalation in threats and attacks against Jewish communities.

Ukraine said Wednesday it struck two of Russia’s largest oil refineries in overnight long-range drone attacks, intensifying pressure on Moscow as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Washington.

Japan’s prime minister warned Wednesday that “every second counts” after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture, killing more than a dozen people.

A scientist working for China’s military supplied coronavirus materials that were secretly carried into the United States more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to newly released federal records.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missiles at American forces stationed in Jordan early Wednesday, prompting the United States and Saudi Arabia to carry out joint airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias operating inside Iraq.

Skywatchers are preparing for one of the most remarkable astronomical nights of the decade as a total solar eclipse, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower and a broad gathering of six planets converge around August 12.

President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran is seeking negotiations after two weeks of sustained American airstrikes, portraying Tehran’s diplomatic outreach as evidence that the U.S. military campaign has forced the Islamic regime back to the bargaining table.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Morocco was naming a major Atlantic expressway in his honor, drawing renewed attention to a sweeping infrastructure project linking the kingdom’s southern regions with the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War armistice by paying tribute at war memorials and cemeteries, accompanied for the first time by his daughter, Ju Ae, in a move that analysts say further underscores her increasingly prominent public role.

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has openly called for continued “jihad and resistance” against Israel and the United States while declaring the defense of Hezbollah a strategic obligation of the Islamic Republic.

German police shot dead the main suspect Sunday in what authorities described as an Islamist terrorist attack targeting Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride celebrations after he allegedly charged officers with a knife during an attempted arrest.

President Donald Trump firmly rejected reports Sunday suggesting that the United States is running dangerously low on military munitions as the administration weighs its next steps in the escalating conflict with Iran.

Typhoon Noul struck China’s southern coast early Sunday, forcing more than 800,000 people from their homes, disrupting hundreds of flights, and prompting the nation’s highest-level warning for potentially deadly flash floods.

The Trump administration imposed forced-labor tariffs on 60 trading partners Thursday, covering most U.S. imports, but did not say what the duties will cost American consumers.

Turkey has not met the conditions required to purchase American F-35 fighter jets, the U.S. State Department said, despite President Donald Trump recently signaling that he would support reviving the long-stalled sale.

A Russian ballistic missile strike near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv killed at least 10 people and wounded nearly 100 others Friday, Ukrainian officials said, as neighboring Romania, a member of the NATO military alliance, announced it had shot down a drone that entered its airspace.

Tens of thousands of people fled by road and boat as devastating wildfires swept across parts of Spain and southwestern France on Friday, fueled by an intense heatwave, powerful winds, and tinder-dry conditions.

Hungary’s Prosecutor General Bálint Gábor Nagy resigned Wednesday unexpectedly, saying the Prosecutor’s Office must never become “an instrument of political struggle” as political turmoil deepened.

Christians have expressed fresh concern over the safety of Syria’s religious minorities after an Alawite mother and her two young children were reportedly shot dead in the central city of Homs in an attack that has raised fresh fears of sectarian violence.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he is nearing a decision on whether to launch a “massive attack” against Iran, warning that Tehran has not suffered enough pressure to abandon its attacks on international shipping and return to serious negotiations.