North Korea announced Monday that it test-fired two cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, just one day before South Korea was set to begin an extensive joint military drill with the United States, AFP reports.
The U.S., Britain, and Australia have unveiled a multi-decade plan designed to boost Western security in the Asia Pacific at a time of growing Chinese power, by enabling Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the U.S., and eventually build its own.
An unprecedented sandstorm likely caused a massive pile-up on Hungary’s M1 highway towards the Austrian capital Vienna, killing one person and injuring dozens, authorities announced Saturday.
Iran has finalized a deal to buy Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets in a deal due to raising concerns in Israel, Worthy News monitored Sunday.
Pressure mounted Sunday on the Czech Republic’s government after up to 25,000 people demanded its resignation amid anger about the Czech military support for Ukraine and high inflation.
Russia says its forces continue to attack Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and claims to have killed over 220 Ukrainian troops over the past 24 hours. However, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused hardship on both sides.
World leaders are anxiously monitoring the global ramifications of Friday’s sudden collapse of startup lender Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group (SVB), the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis.
Georgia’s parliament dropped a controversial “foreign agent registration” bill after massive protests and warnings it could hamper the country’s efforts to join the European Union and NATO military alliance.
China’s leader Xi Jinping was formally reappointed as the nation’s president for a third 5-year term in a move expected to worry minorities, including Christians and dissidents.
Power has been restored to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest after massive Russian strikes killed at least nine people, authorities said Thursday.
A gunman opened fire in a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in Germany’s northern city of Hamburg late Thursday, killing at least seven people, authorities said.
Russian forces carried out a “massive missile attack” on key Ukrainian targets overnight, according to Ukraine’s top soldier.
British lawmakers have resoundingly rejected an amendment to the UK’s Public Order Bill that would allow people to engage in “silent prayer” and “consensual” conversation within buffer zones created to prevent anti-abortion activists from harassing women entering abortion clinics, the London Standard report.
Anxiety remained high in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi after security forces detained some 50 protestors and broke up protests against a “foreign agents” law, injuring several people. Demonstrators fear the legislation moves the former Soviet republic towards Russian-style authoritarian rule.
Hungary has, for the first time, observed International Women’s Day under a female president, a devoted Christian who urged women to have faith and children to overcome the country’s “demographic winter.”
The secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Wednesday that Russia could capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut “in the coming days.”
U.S. intelligence leaders told lawmakers Wednesday that the Chinese Communist Party remained the “most consequential threat” to U.S. national security, as President Xi Jinping consolidates power and his government takes steps to fuel divides both within the U.S. and between Washington and its allies.
Russian authorities are detaining prominent Christians opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including a Christian musician and a priest, investigators told Worthy News.
Hungarian lawmakers began visiting Sweden and Finland on Tuesday to discuss the Nordic nations’ bid to join the NATO military alliance after Copenhagen and Helsinki expressed concerns about Hungary’s reluctance to ratify their entry.
A Catholic anti-abortion activist in Birmingham, England has been rearrested for violating a local Public Spaces Protection Order by standing silently and praying inside a buffer zone around a closed abortion clinic, the Washington Times reports.