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The jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny – a prominent vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin – has died, prison officials said Friday.

Hungarian Reformed Bishop Zoltán Balog has apologized for advising the country’s president to give a presidential pardon to a former deputy director of an orphanage who was an accomplice in the sexual abuse of children.

Iran appeared closer to a nuclear confrontation with Israel after a well-informed Iranian official said the Islamic Republic has everything it needs for a nuclear bomb.

Greece has become the first religiously Christian Orthodox nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Chinese Scientists have claimed a breakthrough in creating a High-Power Microwave (HPM) weapon, marking a quantum leap in directed-energy warfare for use in urban warfare combat scenarios, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The United Kingdom saw an unprecedented surge in antisemitism following the Oct. 7 genocidal attack on Israel by Hamas, with thousands of antisemitic incidents recorded since then, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

During his recent visit to the Gulf state, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) finalized an agreement to progress the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). This agreement is designed to boost trade and transportation through an extensive network of sea and rail connections.

Evangelical Christians said Wednesday they were pleased that Prabowo Subianto claimed victory in Indonesia’s presidential elections despite his past as a military chief during the Suharto dictatorship a generation ago.

In a major reorganization announced by the U.S. Air Force and its newly established subsidiary, Space Force, the U.S. Air Force Combat wings will be transformed into “units of action” designed to fight better if a war breaks out with China, the Washington Times reported.

Representatives of Indonesia’s minority Christians tell Worthy News they are concerned about their future if a radical Muslim candidate wins Wednesday’s presidential vote.

An influential British military think-tank warns that tensions around the world signal “what is likely to be a more dangerous decade.”

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has canceled a trip to NATO military alliance headquarters after being rushed to hospital as he is facing an “emergent bladder issue,” US officials said.

European leaders rushed Monday to call for a new defense strategy after ex-U.S. President Donald J. Trump encouraged Russia to attack member states of the NATO military alliance who do not meet their financial obligations.

Ukraine on Sunday came to grips with more casualties after a massive Russian airstrike impacted the war-torn nation. Outgunned and exhausted, Ukrainian forces faced an uphill battle Sunday while Catholics here and around the world observed the World Day of the Sick.

Europeans woke up Sunday with a headache after the presumed U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump encouraged Russia to attack member states of the NATO military alliance who haven’t met their financial obligations.

Hungary’s conservative president has resigned after massive protests over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case.

Ukrainian authorities say seven people, including three children, have been killed in a Russian drone attack on a petrol station in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. The attack came after the Ukrainian president made changes in the military.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he will try to form a coalition government after his party trailed independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, in parliamentary election results on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that Russia’s war with Ukraine could be over within weeks if the West stops supplying weapons to Kyiv

Votes were being counted in Pakistan after Thursday’s blood-stained general election, which was overshadowed by attacks and the suspension of mobile phone and internet services by authorities in the Islamic nation.