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Dutch conservative-liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, one of Europe’s longest-serving government leaders, said Monday he would leave politics after his cabinet collapsed over the weekend.

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Britain on Sunday amid controversy over his plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.

Dutch Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government collapsed after just a year and a half in office on Friday in a row over measures to curb the massive flow of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. New elections will now be held, probably in the autumn.

The US regularly updates its military options for threats from Iran’s evolving nuclear facilities, US Lt. Gen. and CENTCOM Air Force Chief Alexus Grynkewich told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sudan was on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” as fierce clashes between rival generals continued unabated Sunday in the capital, Khartoum.

A U.S. drone strike killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria hours after the same MQ-9 Reaper drones were harassed by Russian military jets over the western part of the country, according to the Defense Department.

The Biden administration on Friday announced plans to provide cluster munitions for Ukraine as changing battlefield conditions prompted yet another reversal over sending weapons once deemed too sensitive.

Ocean Gate, the company that owned a submersible that imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the sunken Titanic ship killing all five onboard, has suspended its operations ahead of possible lawsuits.

Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of the German city of Munich’s main synagogue, construction workers have discovered that it wasn’t lost to history.

Survivors praised rescuers after an overnight fire in a retirement home in the Italian city of Milan reportedly killed six people and injured around 80, including three who are in critical condition.

The fate of Russia’s rebellious Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remained unclear Thursday, with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko saying he was no longer in Belarus.

The United Nations reported this week that Iran is continuing to carry out “chilling” executions on citizens suspected of involvement in nationwide anti-government protests that were sparked last year after young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in police custody in September, i24News reports.

Hungary pledged to continue cooperation with Moscow while hosting the Russian health minister despite Western condemnation over Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.

A newly published Danish study has shown that transgender individuals have significantly higher rates of suicide attempts and mortality than nontransgender individuals. Published by the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network, the study is titled ‘Transgender Identity and Suicide Attempts and Mortality in Denmark.’

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said it stopped Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman following a series of attacks and seizures on vessels in the region since 2019.

Ukraine and Russia accused each other Wednesday of planning to attack one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants, which is located in southeastern Ukraine and occupied by Russian troops, but neither side provided evidence to support their claims.

The Netherlands and Germany were hammered by a record-breaking summer storm killing two people and plunging international air and rail travel into chaos.

Russia says one person has been killed and another 41 injured, including two children, by Ukrainian fire in the east Ukraine town of Makiivka, occupied by Russian forces. The alleged attack came after Kyiv warned that Moscow may target Europe’s largest Ukrainian power plant while at least 43 people, including 12 children, were wounded in a Russian missile strike on Tuesday.

Joint Russian-Syrian air force and air defense exercises will begin in Syria on July 5 and last six days, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre for Syria, was quoted as telling Russian news agencies on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that Russia may be planning to “simulate an attack” on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after Russian missiles injured dozens earlier on Tuesday.