Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged U.S. President Donald J. Trump to maintain pressure on Russia to reach a ceasefire deal, similar to the one Trump helped broker between Israel and Hamas.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump arrived in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Monday while the release of the last 20 living hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, was underway.
A Christian father of four daughters has been found dead in a garbage dumping site in Pakistan’s northeastern city of Sialkot, Christians told Worthy News.
U.S. President Donald Trump departed Washington on Sunday for what he called a “historic” Middle East peace tour aimed at finalizing his long-promised regional peace plan. The trip comes on the heels of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza and a sweeping hostage release deal, hailed by the White House as a turning point for the region.
The United States and Qatar have signed a landmark defense agreement that will see Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — a move underscoring both nations’ expanding military and diplomatic ties following the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Roughly $4.5 billion in contracts have been awarded to expand border wall construction, including adding advanced technological surveillance along the southwest border.
President Donald Trump on Friday said imports from China will face a new 100% tariff “over and above” existing import taxes on the world’s second-largest economy.
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after he quit the job as the shortest-serving premier in France’s modern history, in a move that has deepened political turmoil across the country.
Hamas says the release of the remaining Israeli hostages will begin on Monday morning. “According to a written deal, the exchange of prisoners will start on Monday morning, as agreed,” confirmed Hamas official Osama Hamdan.
Authorities say Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Sunday, part of what Kyiv calls an ongoing campaign to cripple the nation’s energy infrastructure before the onset of winter.
Madagascar’s president said Sunday that an attempted coup was underway as troops joined youth-led protests that have rocked the African island nation for nearly three weeks, leaving numerous people dead.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, best known for his dystopian and apocalyptic novel Satantango, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy confirmed Thursday.
Christian aid workers tell Worthy News they “feel dizzy” and “nervous” as a powerful, deadly earthquake of at least magnitude 7.4 struck offshore in the southern Philippines on Friday, with tsunami warnings issued in several countries and people in nearby coastal areas urged to move inland or to higher ground.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet early Friday approved a U.S.-brokered ceasefire framework that aims to end active hostilities in Gaza and secure the release of all remaining Israeli hostages, despite unified opposition from far-right coalition partners.
A U.S. military team of 200 personnel will be deployed across the Middle East to help oversee the newly brokered Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, senior U.S. officials confirmed Thursday, marking the next phase of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace initiative.
China has unveiled sweeping new export restrictions on rare-earth materials and related technologies — a move analysts describe as a near-unprecedented escalation in its economic confrontation with the United States. The rules, announced Thursday by China’s Commerce Ministry, could disrupt global supply chains for critical technologies, from semiconductors and solar panels to electric vehicles and advanced weapons systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly admitted that Russian air defenses were responsible for downing an Azerbaijani passenger jet last December, killing 38 people, in what analysts say marks a stunning acknowledgment that further erodes Moscow’s standing among former Soviet republics.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirmed Thursday that he will visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deliver a major address to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, amid rising hopes that his proposed ceasefire plan could end the devastating war with Hamas and bring peace to the Jewish nation and the region.
Hungary’s pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing new accusations that his government operated a secret network to spy on European Union institutions.