France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, and government ministers held an emergency meeting in Paris as riots across the nation escalated into the worst French crisis in years. The clashes broke out after Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy with a migrant background earlier this week.
Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that his government wants to know “who is responsible” for the European Union having been “pushed to the brink of bankruptcy.”
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, and government ministers held an emergency meeting in Paris as riots across the nation escalated into the worst French crisis in years.
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor.
China’s ruling authoritarian Communist Party (CCP) has begun rolling out a new app that will require citizens to pre-register for approval to attend a religious service.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out supplying Ukraine with the Iron Dome missile defense system, reiterating Israel’s concern that the vital technology could fall into the hands of Iran.
A Catholic charity says more than half of the world’s population lives in countries where Christians and others face religious persecution.
France mobilized 40,000 additional security forces on Thursday to deal with spreading unrest following the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent.
Several sources said Thursday that Russia’s most senior generals disappeared from public view after a brief mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top military brass in the biggest challenge to Vladimir Putin’s presidency so far.
Following the 2020 Abraham Accords normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, an Emirati senior security official has confirmed that Israel helped the UAE to defend itself against a cyber attack and is helping the Gulf state to build a “cyber iron dome,” i24News reports.
The Supreme Court ruled to ban the consideration of race as part of admissions decisions at colleges, including Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ending the decades long practice known as affirmative action.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a postal worker in Pennsylvania in an important religious liberty dispute, over how far employers should go to accommodate faith-based requests in the workplace.
With a view to expanding space exploration and achieving a long-term presence on the moon, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working to develop vital oxygen and water resources on the moon within the next decade, the Jerusalem Post reports.
It has come to light that, with little warning and no offer of alternative accommodation, the government of Nigeria recently bulldozed an Internally Displaced Persons’ camp which had housed thousands of people rendered homeless by Islamic jihadist violence in the country, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Five Christians have been detained in North Korea and may face death after security forces raided a secret church service, well-informed Christian aid workers told Worthy News.
In addition to murdering 700 Christians this month, Fulani jihadist herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state also destroyed dozens of farms belonging to believers, with the intent of taking them over to raise livestock, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
All 23 of the U.S. banks included in the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test weathered a severe recession scenario while continuing to lend to consumers and corporations, the regulator said Wednesday.
Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-transition care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
The United Nations Security Council urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed an alleged Russian agent for Tuesday’s attack on the eastern city of Kramatorsk that killed nearly a dozen people, including children.