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Deadly “once in a century” floods in Somalia have killed at least 31 people and displaced around 500,000 more, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.

Greta Thunberg, seen as the princess of the climate change movement, was interrupted Sunday after turning the largest climate protest in Dutch history into an anti-Israel event.

The European Union warned Sunday of another genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region, while the pope expressed concerns about a humanitarian crisis just days after Worthy News saw footage of an apparent massacre there.

Indonesia’s top Islamic scholars’ body has issued a fatwa, an Islamic decree, banning the purchase or use of products from companies linked to Israel or seen as supporting the Jewish nation.

Britain’s prime minister condemned hatred towards Jews and violence on Saturday after hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinians rallied in London for the “biggest march” seen by British police in the Israel-Hamas war, prompting violent counterprotests in which nearly 100 were detained.

The chief of Hezbollah said Saturday that “victory” over Israel is coming as his fighters use better weapons, prompting an Israeli warning of war with Lebanon, where the group is based.

Iran’s president effectively called for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews and urged Muslim nations “to arm Palestinians” if “Israel’s attacks” continue.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday at a summit of Arab and Islamic leaders that “Hamas protect their land,” suggesting that the group, condemned as a terrorist organization by most Western countries, is involved in a genuine battle against Israel.

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he’s “ashamed and outraged” at recent antisemitic attacks in his country, which is still reeling from its role in World War Two when millions of Jews were murdered.

American bases were attacked four times by Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East following a U.S. strike on an Iranian facility in Syria last Wednesday, the Pentagon has confirmed.

German police have detained a 15-year-old armed boy after he allegedly shot and killed another 15-year-old student at a special education school in the southwestern town of Offenburg, officials said.

A Dutch legislator of the European Union’s parliament has condemned the EU’s leadership for “pushing through” a plan forcing Europeans to use digital identification verification.

The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the chief of Israel’s spy agency Mossad met with Qatar’s prime minister Thursday to discuss the release of hostages held by Hamas and a pause in Israel’s Gaza offensive, several officials said.

The number of antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands is reported to have shot up by over 800% since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians and Israel’s military response to it, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, is set to give a speech in commemoration of the terrorist organization’s “Martyr’s Day” this upcoming Saturday.

The Vatican said Wednesday that transgender people can be baptized in the Catholic Church after the pope already reached out to other members of the LGBTQ+ community, which uses the rainbow as its logo.

The Vatican has offered to mediate to end the Israel-Hamas war but also urged Israeli authorities to show “proportionality” in its response to the “inhuman” Hamas attack that killed 1,400 people including babies.

The president of war-torn Ukraine praised as “historic” a recommendation by the European Union’s executive to launch membership talks with Kyiv, but EU member Hungary opposed the move, citing security concerns.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, successfully downed an unmanned U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone that was operating in international airspace off the Yemeni coast, according to a Pentagon Statement on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced that, for the second time in the past two weeks, U.S. fighter jets carried out airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria. This development has heightened concerns about escalating tensions in the Middle East.