Hungary’s prime minister has accused the president of neighboring war-torn Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of rejecting his proposal for a Christmas truce and a large-scale prisoners' exchange with Russia.

Banks in the Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading data center nations, appealed to customers on Wednesday to have cash “due to geopolitical tensions” after the government urged citizens to keep a backpack at home with emergency items.

Authorities on Indonesia’s tropical island province of Bali warned Wednesday of more extreme weather after two tourists died and several were injured when a large tree fell on them at the popular Monkey Forest in Bali’s village of Ubud.

Concerned that the recent toppling of Syria’s government will allow Islamic terror groups to fill the power vacuum left by ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, the United States and its regional allies are seeking to ensure that chemical weapons accumulated by the fallen regime do not fall into the wrong hands, Axios reports. Assad notoriously used chemical weapons against his own peopl during the Civil War that has wracked Syria since 2011.

Israel announced this week that its airstrikes have destroyed 70-80% of Syria's military capabilities following the rapid collapse of President Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus.

Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday denied reports that IDF tanks have entered Syria and are approaching Damascus following the collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports. At the same time, the IDF said it has carried out hundreds of strikes against military targets in Syria to ensure that weapons and equipment that may be used against neighboring Israel do not fall into the hands of “hostile elements” entering the power vacuum left by Assad.

Institutional reforms, updated procedures, and even Constitutional amendments may be necessary to avoid a complete fiscal crisis in America, according to testimony presented Wednesday before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget.

President-elect Donald Trump responded Wednesday to news that FBI Director Christopher Wray would resign when Trump takes office in January.

A US federal court is considering a case brought by Minnesota Christian parents seeking the reversal of a new state law that would exclude faith-based colleges from participating in a tax-payer-funded program that helps high-school students earn free college credits.

Amid a wave of violence against Christians in north-eastern Nigeria’s Taraba state, suspected Islamic extremists murdered a pastor and a female Christian student in separate attacks last week, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Continuing their years-long slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians, Fulani herdsmen murdered at least 96 Christians in neighboring Benue and Taraba states since October 22, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Tens of thousands of Christians have been murdered by Islamist terrorist groups including Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, and Islamic State West Africa Province since Islamic jihadism took hold in Nigeria in 2009.

An 82-year-old pastor in Louisiana is enjoying the “best” ministry of his life after setting up a roadside prayer station at a busy intersection, Baptist Press (BP) reports.

A Christian choir in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province pondered Monday how to perform this Christmas after local Muslims objected to their rehearsal.