Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has re-designated the Iran-aligned Houthi Islamic militant group in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Reuters reports. Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden had dropped the terrorist designation Trump had given the Houthis in his first term because of humanitarian concerns in war-torn Yemen.
A pastor in Ohio has been fined $200 and sentenced to a 60-day suspended jail term after being convicted of violating a municipal fire code order at his church.
While Philippine authorities confirmed the detention of an alleged Chinese spy, the U.S. military moved Lyphon launchers – which can hit Chinese targets from Laoag airfield in the Philippines to another location on the island of Luzon, officials confirmed.
Stuffed animals and candles were seen at the site in southern Germany where a 2-year-old boy of Moroccan origin and a 41-year-old German man were killed in a knife attack that Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz called an “act of terror.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is praying for those impacted by a railway tragedy in western India where at least 12 train passengers reportedly died after being struck by another train on an adjacent track.
The British government wants citizens to carry a digital version of their passport, driving license, social benefits account, and marriage and birth certificates on their smartphones “in tune with modern life.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged the European Union to cut the “Green Deal drastically,” saying the controversial environmental program would “bankrupt” the EU.
The US Trump administration on Tuesday announced a private sector investment of up to $500 billion to build artificial intelligence infrastructure that will outpace AI programs being developed by other countries, USA Today reports.
Continuing to raise the long-standing alarm that Iran is close to developing a nuclear bomb, the UN’s nuclear watchdog chief has announced that the Iranian regime is “pressing the gas pedal” on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, Reuters reports.
Israel, not the Palestinian Authority, will control the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the current four-day-old ceasefire with Hamas, the Associated Press reports.
President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to target Mexican cartels and other foreign groups that are a threat to American citizens and national security.
President Donald Trump ordered that starting Wednesday, all federal staff working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will immediately be put on paid leave.
In addition to declaring an invasion at the southern border and declaring multiple national emergencies, President Donald Trump issued an order to protect Americans from foreign terrorists and other public safety threats.
Citing failure to protect Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack, IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi on Tuesday announced his resignation, Haaretz reports. Halevi will leave his post on March 6.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump wants to pressure America’s neighbors to renegotiate a continental trade deal by threatening to impose massive tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico as soon as next week, U.S. sources said Tuesday.
Rescuers in Indonesia have recovered the bodies of dozens of people killed in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks on the nation’s Java and Bali islands, with more heavy rain expected.
At least 76 people have been killed in a fire engulfing a popular Turkish ski resort, prompting the detention of numerous people, officials say.
Amid a surge in threats and attacks on Australia’s Jewish community, a childcare center located near a Jewish school and synagogue in Sydney was firebombed and had antisemitic graffiti sprayed on its walls in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Haaretz reports. The center was empty at the time of the attack and there were no reports of injuries.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether parents of elementary school pupils in Montgomery County, Maryland can pull their children out of lessons that use storybooks featuring LGBTQ characters and storylines, the Associated Press reports.
Pepperdine University, a Christian college in Malibu, California provided essential assistance in the fight against the horrific Los Angeles Palisades and Kenneth wildfires earlier this month by allowing firefighters access to the school’s Recycled Water Irrigation Reservoir and acting as a hub for coordinating an emergency response for the affected community, Christianity Today reports.