Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.

People will get to see the first on Tuesday evening, 1 August, as the full moon rises in the southeast from a mere 222,159 miles (357,530km) away.

The army of Niger, a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa, said Thursday it would offer no resistance against an armed coup, raising concerns among Western leaders.

As of Thursday, twenty Eurozone countries have the highest interest rate ever recorded since the Euro was launched in October 2000, Sky News reports.

Ukraine’s military claimed Thursday it had success on one of the frontlines in its southeast battle against invading Russian troops, but Moscow played down the reported progress.

Questions were raised Wednesday about the safety of electric cars that the European Union wants to see on roads across the 27-nation bloc as a deadly fire raged across a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland.

Pakistani Christians remained concerned about the plight of a Catholic man after a court ruled that he could be charged with blasphemy under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law.

Russia and China stepped up their cooperation with nuclear-armed autocratically North Korea on Wednesday as East-West relations rapidly worsened.

Ukraine has stepped up its counteroffensive against invading Russian troops, with several sources confirming Ukrainian advances in the south and east of the country.

American F-35 fighter jets arrived in the Middle East to beef up deterrence against Iran amid a string of ship seizures in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pentagon officials are again imploring Russian aircraft to stay away from U.S. drones after one was severely damaged on Sunday in Syria.

Russian legislators have voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted from 27 to 30, making more of them liable to serve in the army as the nation struggles with its ongoing invasion in Ukraine.

Tragedies struck several nations as a European heatwave was blamed for violent storms and wildfires in Greece as well as in Sicily, Italy, Algeria, and Tunisia, killing several people.

Ukrainian authorities say one person was killed and 22 wounded, including four children, in Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which also damaged a cathedral. The reported attack came ahead of a separate drone strike in Russia’s capital Moscow that the Kremlin blames on Ukraine.

A recent report from the United Nations shows that the Al Qaeda and Islamic State terror groups have been gaining more ground and influence in Afghanistan than ever before, CBN News reports. The US State Department stated recently that both the Trump and the Biden administrations failed to adequately prepare for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Iran on Sunday began an annual air force drill in the central part of country, state media reported, as the US sends more fighter planes to the region to deter the Islamic Republic from seizing commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf area.

The center-right Popular Party (PP) beat Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists in Spain’s parliamentary elections. Still, it will need several junior parties to govern, official results showed. The outcome of Sunday’s vote was likely to spark weeks of political uncertainty in the European Union nation, analysts said.

China sent dozens of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan, the island’s Defense Ministry said Saturday, marking a forceful display days before the democracy plans to hold military exercises aimed at defending itself against a possible invasion.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on Greece’s island of Rhodes due to wildfires as the nation deals with its most prolonged deadly heatwave on record, officials said Saturday.

Hungary says it is willing to mediate between Russia and war-torn Ukraine after Moscow walked away from a deal that allowed Kyiv to export grain through the Black Sea more safely. The announcement came after Hungary and four other European Union nations signaled that they would extend their import ban on Ukrainian grain “to protect local farmers.”