Posted on:Wednesday, January 24, 2024
As part of an effort to prevent the ongoing Israel-Hamas war from escalating into a regional conflict fueled by Iran, the United States, just after midnight on Wednesday, carried out retaliatory airstrikes against facilities in Iraq that were being used by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia and other jihadist groups to attack US and Coalition targets in the region, Axios reports.
Posted on:Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Russian authorities confirmed Wednesday that a Defense Ministry plane carrying scores of Ukrainian military prisoners of war plus crew and guards crashed in Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine.
Posted on:Wednesday, January 24, 2024
The United States hit Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen early Wednesday, destroying two anti-ship missiles that aimed at the Red Sea and were preparing to launch, the U.S. military said.
Posted on:Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Hungary came under pressure Wednesday to approve Sweden’s membership of the NATO-military alliance after Turkey’s parliament ratified the Nordic nation’s entry.
Posted on:Tuesday, January 23, 2024
A British pianist who has more than two million subscribers on the YouTube video-sharing site has been accosted by a furious Chinese television crew and Chinese tourists.
Posted on:Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Dozens of students have arrived in Budapest from wartorn Ukraine to meet the teachers they knew online while studying in bomb shelters or other challenging locations.
Posted on:Tuesday, January 23, 2024
A 7.1 earthquake struck a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region after deadly landslides buried dozens in China and in the Philippines, including praying Christians, officials said.
Posted on:Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Prosecutors in Finland are now appealing to the country’s Supreme Court to pin charges of inciting hate speech on a Christian parliamentarian who posted comments on social media about her opposition to same-sex marriage on religious grounds, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Posted on:Monday, January 22, 2024
European Union foreign ministers began meeting in Brussels Monday to discuss the future of European support for Ukraine, which needs more ammunition to fight invading Russian troops. The gathering comes while the Polish prime minister is in Kyiv amid more bloodshed as Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of attacking a market in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and injuring 20 others over the weekend.
Posted on:Monday, January 22, 2024
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has come under fire for demanding that government and business leaders roll out “digital IDs” to ensure they can track persons’ “vaccination status” and other private information.
Posted on:Monday, January 22, 2024
An Iranian conscript opened fire inside an army base, killing at least five soldiers in Iran’s southeastern city of Kerman, where 94 people died in bombings earlier this month, Iranian and Israeli sources said.
Posted on:Sunday, January 21, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged nations to sign on to a pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for a potential “Disease X” with a fatality rate 20 times that of COVID-19, and no vaccine.
Posted on:Sunday, January 21, 2024
Moscow on Sunday condemned Kyiv for allegedly shelling a market in the Russian-occupied eastern part of Ukraine, killing at least 25 people.
Posted on:Saturday, January 20, 2024
The controversial Australian Islamic preacher Mohamed Hoblos, who was supposed to preach in the Netherlands on Saturday, has been banned from entering the country, the Dutch government says.
Posted on:Saturday, January 20, 2024
Security sources say Iran and the militia it supports are helping to attack ships in the Red Sea, especially vessels heading to Israel.
Posted on:Saturday, January 20, 2024
Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone strike that sparked a massive inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on Friday after a similar attack on one of Russia’s largest refineries. They are the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks as the Russia-Ukraine war will soon enter its third year.
Posted on:Saturday, January 20, 2024
Hungary has condemned the European Parliament for voting to withhold further European Union funds to Hungary until Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government meets all criteria to reverse the perceived erosion of the rule of law and democratic principles.
Posted on:Friday, January 19, 2024
Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his nation will continue supporting persecuted Christians in the Middle East, including in ‘the Holy Land,’ which includes Israel and Palestinian territories.
Posted on:Friday, January 19, 2024
The Netherlands said Friday it had summoned Iran’s ambassador after an Iranian strike in neighboring Iraq killed a Dutch infant and her father while injuring her mother and brother.
Posted on:Friday, January 19, 2024
The Houthis have promised safe passage for Russian and Chinese vessels through the Red Sea, where the Iran-backed militia in Yemen attack commercial ships “in solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza.