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The emotional widow of Russia’s most prominent Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, said Thursday that she fears arrests when her late husband’s human remains will be laid to rest at a funeral on Friday in Moscow, the capital.

While many people respond well to medication for depression, researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have published a new report advocating that exercise should be considered a “core” alternative or complementary treatment” for the disorder. The study is titled ‘Effect of Exercise for Depression’ and appears in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Haiti’s Catholic bishops have appealed for an end to escalating violence in their troubled Caribbean nation and urged the prime minister to resign.

A Dutch court has sentenced the head of a violent Dubai-based “super cartel” that supplied a third of Europe’s cocaine to life imprisonment over several murders and attempted killings.

Moscow on Tuesday warned Ukraine’s allies that sending troops to fight in Ukraine would lead to the “inevitability” of war between Russia and the NATO military alliance.

Amid war and generally exceedingly high tensions in the Middle East, terror-sponsor Iran is reported by the UN to have further increased its total stockpile of enriched uranium required for a nuclear bomb, the Associated Press reports.

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine to help the war-torn nation and the U.S. gather intelligence from Russia, well-informed American sources have revealed.

Denmark has joined a growing list of countries which have registered record-breaking levels of antisemitic incidents since the Hamas genocidal attack against Israel on Oct. 7, the Washington Times reports.

Europe edged closer to a broader war with France’s President Emmanuel Macron refusing to rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine, though a U.S. diplomat told Worthy News that NATO military alliance forces are already in the wartorn nation.

Hungary’s parliament has approved Sweden’s membership of the NATO military alliance, the last member state to do so, ending an impasse that lasted months.

The Iran-backed, Yemen-based Houthis group has condemned the United States and Britain for carrying out up to 22 airstrikes in the capital, Sanaa, and its countryside and warned it would retaliate with more attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

Ukraine’s defense minister warned Sunday that his country was losing lives and territories in its war with Russia because half the weapons promised by Western allies haven’t arrived yet.

Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted several Western leaders in Kyiv on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion amid concerns that Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and weaponry to withstand Russia’s army. The leaders pledged their unwavering support to war-torn Ukraine despite questions over how and when the bloodshed will end.

After mounting pressure, Russian authorities handed over the body of Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died in prison last week, to his mother, the late political activist’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said Saturday.

Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted several Western leaders in Kyiv on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion amid concerns that Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and weaponry to withstand Russia’s army. The leaders pledged their unwavering support to war-torn Ukraine despite questions over how and when the bloodshed will end.

Spain plunged into three days of mourning after authorities in the Spanish city of Valencia said up to ten people were killed and 14 injured as fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was on his way for talks in Budapest on Friday amid mounting pressure on Hungary to vote for Sweden’s membership of the NATO military alliance.

Hungary blocked European Union member states from signing a declaration on the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, just hours after the Hungarian prime minister okayed the entry of Sweden into the NATO military alliance.

Firefighters struggled to contain a massive blaze that engulfed a high-rise residential block in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring more than a dozen, officials said.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Thursday said they had launched attacks on both Israel and a ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel ablaze.