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Thailand and Cambodia rushed reinforcements to their shared frontier Wednesday as artillery exchanges and air strikes shattered a fragile ceasefire, forcing thousands of residents on both sides of the border to flee. The crisis raised fears of a widening conflict in one of Southeast Asia’s most volatile regions and impacted churches.

The Czech Republic, regarded as one of Europe’s most atheist nations, was preparing for a new government Wednesday after a Trump-style billionaire was appointed as its new prime minister amid ongoing scrutiny from the European Union.

The United States has seized a large crude tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from both Venezuela and Iran, a dramatic enforcement action that immediately raised oil prices and heightened tensions with the Maduro regime.

South Africa’s authorities have released new details about a mass shooting that killed 12 people, including children, at an unlicensed bar near the administrative capital Pretoria.

Britain is facing calls for stronger safeguards on the planned use of facial recognition cameras across the country after the Home Office admitted the system is more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts.

Indonesia’s capital was plunged into mourning late Tuesday after at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, were confirmed dead when a massive fire swept through a seven-story office building in central Jakarta.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean some 45 miles west of Misawa, Japan, shook the northern region of the archipelago around 11:26 p.m. local time.

European Union leaders have expressed deep concern about a new U.S. national security strategy that they view as “ideologically anti-European,” supportive of “far-right” and populist movements across the continent, and a threat to transatlantic unity.

The leaders of France, Germany, and Britain expressed firm support Monday for embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as more people were killed and injured in Russia’s nearly four-year war against his nation.

The stench of death is never far away. Yet a Christian community on Sumatra island, overlooked by Muslim authorities, found reasons to “praise God” over the weekend as they received food, medicines, and other goods to cope with the aftermath of Indonesia’s deadliest flooding in years.

A senior U.S. official has expressed cautious optimism that negotiations to end the war in Ukraine may be nearing a breakthrough, even as violence continues across several front-line regions.

Contact has been restored with imprisoned Russian journalist Nika Novak through her lawyer after more than a week of “alarming silence,” Worthy News learned Sunday, easing fears among colleagues and relatives that she had been secretly transferred or harmed in Russian custody.

India and Russia have agreed to deepen cooperation in defense, trade, energy — including nuclear power — as well as critical minerals and high-tech manufacturing, despite mounting U.S. pressure and punitive trade measures.

President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to sign the Washington Accords, a peace pact the three leaders say will end a 30-year conflict in eastern Congo — even as fighting continues on the ground.

Budapest, Hungary’s capital and its political, economic, and cultural heart, risks becoming insolvent — the municipal equivalent of bankruptcy — a crisis the opposition blames on the right-wing government’s tax policies.

Hungary and possibly neighboring Slovakia will challenge a European Union decision to phase out Russian energy sources at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

The U.S. unveils sweeping visa bans targeting individuals behind anti-Christian violence in Nigeria.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio cites authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to block visas for perpetrators and family members.
Attacks on churches and schools–including mass abductions–prompted President Donald Trump to designate Nigeria a “country of particular concern.”
The policy applies globally, signaling a broader U.S. effort to confront violations of religious freedom worldwide.

A newly deployed U.S. drone squadron operating somewhere in the Middle East is based on a reverse-engineered copy of Iran’s Shahed-136 attack drone, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive–an unusual move that underscores Washington’s accelerating push to field cheaper strike systems against Iranian-style threats.

A Pentecostal pastor on Indonesia’s Sumatra island has cried out for help, saying his community has been without food, safe water supplies, and fresh clothing for days following massive flooding that killed at least hundreds of people in the region.

President Donald Trump said on Dec. 2 that the United States will begin conducting military strikes inside Venezuela “very soon,” marking a significant escalation in Washington’s months-long campaign to dismantle narcotics networks that U.S. officials say are operating with the protection of the Maduro regime.