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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.

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.

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.

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.

Moscow on Sunday condemned Kyiv for allegedly shelling a market in the Russian-occupied eastern part of Ukraine, killing at least 25 people.

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.

Security sources say Iran and the militia it supports are helping to attack ships in the Red Sea, especially vessels heading to Israel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NATO military alliance confirmed Thursday that 90,000 troops will participate in its largest exercise since the Cold War to test its ability for an armed conflict with adversaries like Russia.

Iraq’s prime minister reiterated Thursday that the current U.S.-led military coalition helping his nation fight Islamic State militants should leave after he earlier expressed outrage about a U.S. airstrike in his nation.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan and increasingly nuclear-capable Iran were dangerously moving toward all-out war Thursday as Pakistan responded to an Iranian missile attack killing at least nine people, several sources said.

China is building a mega port in Peru to open its silk highway to South America, Reuters News Agency reported.

The president of the influential World Economic Forum (WEF) says, “We are on the way to a new world order” at a time when power is shifting away from the United States as China’s military and economy grows.

The United States military fired another wave of ship- and submarine-launch missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites on Wednesday, the U.S. Central Command said, as the Israel-Hamas rapidly engulfes the Middle East.

The Surinamese police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Suriname’s former president, Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the killings of 15 opponents.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that approximately 40% of jobs worldwide by the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). The IMF also warned that this technological shift in the global job market would intensify social inequalities and potentially lead to increased social unrest.