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Simmering tensions between Hungary and the United States further rose Wednesday after Washington limited the Hungarian participation in a visa waiver program.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched a surprise military drill Wednesday on disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, just as the U.S. military increase its presence in the region over recent ship seizures by Tehran.

Thousands of Marines backed by advanced U.S. fighter jets and warships are slowly building up a presence in the Persian Gulf. It’s a sign that while America’s wars in the region may be finished, its conflict with Iran over its advancing nuclear program continues to worsen, with no solutions in sight.

Ukraine warned Russia on Tuesday to expect further drone strikes after the mayor of Moscow said a skyscraper had been attacked for the second time in two days.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has told the UN Security Council that, in the first half of this year alone, West Africa suffered more than 1,800 terror attacks which killed 4,593 people, the Associated Press reports.

Kyiv has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit to find a way to end the war with Russia in Ukraine. Officials said the gathering will be in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah early next month.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that war is returning to Russia after a drone attack on Moscow.

Officials say a powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in Pakistan’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, killing dozens of people.

Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a mainland China-backed government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong. It became the unofficial anthem after the 2019 pro-democracy protests and ensuing crackdown.

Residents in southern Thailand were mourning Sunday after authorities said at least nine people, including three children, were killed in a blast at a market’s illegal fireworks warehouse.

Pope Francis appealed Sunday for a resumption of the grain deal as African leaders left two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where they urged him to continue the agreement amid rising food prices and food shortages.

Amid heavy fighting against invading Russian troops, Ukraine has moved its official Christmas Day state holiday from January 7 to December 25 as part of Kyiv’s efforts to distance itself from Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church. The symbolic move came hours before the war escalated, with Russian mercenary forces fighting in Ukraine reportedly moving towards the Polish border.

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday will allow courts to try accused gang members in mass trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs.

The U.S. is set to announce $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, two U.S. officials said Friday. It would be the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles under a new policy intended to speed up military aid to help Taiwan counter China.

Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.

People will get to see the first on Tuesday evening, 1 August, as the full moon rises in the southeast from a mere 222,159 miles (357,530km) away.

The army of Niger, a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa, said Thursday it would offer no resistance against an armed coup, raising concerns among Western leaders.

As of Thursday, twenty Eurozone countries have the highest interest rate ever recorded since the Euro was launched in October 2000, Sky News reports.

Ukraine’s military claimed Thursday it had success on one of the frontlines in its southeast battle against invading Russian troops, but Moscow played down the reported progress.

Questions were raised Wednesday about the safety of electric cars that the European Union wants to see on roads across the 27-nation bloc as a deadly fire raged across a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland.