Dangerous heatwaves were due to intensify in the United States and Europe, with one in three Americans, about 113 million people, under heat advisories: from Florida to California and up to Washington state.

Hungarian authorities have fined a national bookseller for selling a British graphic novel without closed wrapping – saying it violates a law prohibiting the depiction of homosexuality to minors.

In an apparent warning that it won’t be intimidated, Russia launched a massive drone strike on Ukraine’s capital just hours after the end of a NATO military alliance summit in Lithuania.

Central banks plan to roll out central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in microchips implanted under the skin, enabling government control over the world population’s personal expenditures, including buying food and water, several sources familiar with the scheme say.

Fighting broke out in Kosovo’s parliament Thursday after an opposition legislator threw water at Prime Minister Albin Kurti while he explained government plans to end tensions with minority Serbs in the country’s north.

A deadly heatwave is spreading across parts of southern Europe and north-west Africa, with potentially record-breaking temperatures in the coming days, meteorologists warn.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday failed to renew a vital aid delivery program for Syria, thrusting an estimated four million people in the country into an evermore dire situation as the country’s civil war grinds on in its second decade.

The EU wants to commit itself to defending Ukraine for the long haul.

Ukraine received security guarantees from leading nations and assurances that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, prompting an angry response from Russia which invaded the country last year.

A Catholic priest and three other persons abducted by suspected Islamic gunmen in southeastern Nigeria this week have been released, several sources confirmed Wednesday.

Spain’s coastguard said Tuesday it was searching for three boats carrying hundreds of migrants reported lost at sea after it managed to rescue scores of people from another vessel.

Continuing a years-long reign of terror, suspected Islamic jihadist insurgents murdered 22 civilians in Burkina Faso on July 7, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. The government of Burkina Faso was overthrown during a military coup led by Capt. Ibrahim Traoré in September last year, following accusations that then-President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was ineffectual in dealing with Islamic terrorism gripping the West African country.

Tensions are emerging between NATO and war torn Ukraine, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticizing delays in his nation’s membership of the alliance. Zelensky expressed his frustration Tuesday at the start of a two-day NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The death of a young woman in Belgium who received euthanasia “due to unbearable psychological suffering” has revived a debate about the world’s most liberal law on physician-assisted suicide.

Heavy rains that caused flooding and landslides left a trail of destruction across northern India, killing at least 23 people, officials said Monday.

Chinese police said Monday they had detained a young man suspected of attacking a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province, killing six people and injuring one.

The Netherlands has decided to return some 478 pieces of stolen art and cultural artifacts to the former colonies of Indonesia and Sri Lanka, Worthy News learned Friday.

In a major turnaround, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Monday to support Sweden’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization putting pressure on Hungary, the only other military alliance state not yet ratifying the Nordic nation’s membership.

Dutch conservative-liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, one of Europe’s longest-serving government leaders, said Monday he would leave politics after his cabinet collapsed over the weekend.

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Britain on Sunday amid controversy over his plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.