Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Iran to exercise restraint in its retaliatory strike and avoid killing civilians, even as Russia sent fighter jets, advanced air defense and radar equipment to Tehran.
Markets were bracing for another shaky day after Japan’s main stock index suffered its worst day in 37 years, while Wall Street in the United States finished sharply lower on Monday.
China’s Communist government seeks to take over the job of verification from companies and give people a single internet identification document (ID) that critics warn will provide it with even more control over people’s lives, Worthy News learned Tuesday.
The U.S. stock market took a major dive Monday as Japan saw its worst stock market day since 1987, raising fears of a recession and drawing fresh criticism for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
A new survey shows that nearly half (47%) of British Jews have considered leaving the United Kingdom after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas triggered an international outpouring of antisemitism. The UK, in particular, saw massive, weekly, anti-Israel protests, with British Jews reporting they felt unsafe.
There is outrage in the Netherlands after a statue of Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, or Shoah, was vandalized again in Amsterdam with pro-Palestinian graffiti.
ritain was preparing for more upheaval Monday after massive anti-migration riots that a senior Conservative Party official seemed to partly justify following the killing of three girls, allegedly by the teenage son of Rwandan parents.
A full-scale uprising was underway Monday in Bangladesh as longtime authoritarian Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly fled the country and protesters stormed her palace in deadly clashes.
The leaders of seven European Union countries have demanded that Venezuela publish detailed voting results from last week’s presidential election, which granted incumbent President Nicolás Maduro a victory despite opposition protests.
There was more human suffering in the Russia-Ukraine war on Sunday, with officials confirming that Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two in the strategic logistical hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The reported attack came after Ukraine said it struck and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine and damaged several prized Russian S-400 air defense systems in Crimea.
Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna, erupted over Italy’s island of Sicily, impacting air traffic.
Russia has canceled plans at the last minute to deliver missiles and other military equipment to Yemen-based Houthi fighters after pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia, several sources say.
Somalia has plunged into mourning after at least 37 civilians were killed and scores injured in an explosion on a famous beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in an attack the government blamed on militant Islamist group al-Shabab.
Concerns are mounting about the growing number of displaced persons in Ukraine as Russia makes gains on the front lines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia should be represented at a second peace summit set for November after the first such gathering convened by Ukraine last month in Switzerland was held without Moscow’s involvement.
U.S. President Joe Biden has confirmed that Russia has released three jailed Americans, including The Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter Evan Gershkovich and one American green card holder. “Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza” are returning home, he said.
Russia proposed that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopt a statement to condemn the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, but the proposal was blocked by the US, UK, and France.
Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused the United States of terrorism by damaging the Nord Stream pipelines built to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany.
France’s Jews have been targeted with some 100 antisemitic incidents a month since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel triggered an outpouring of Jew-hatred, and this trend is likely to continue, the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) in France told the Jerusalem Post. Founded in the wake of the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, the SPCJ works covertly to protect France’s Jews from antisemitic attacks.
More than 50 police officers have been injured in clashes outside a mosque in the seaside town of Southport in England after authorities confirmed that three young girls were killed in a knife attack that shocked the nation.