New York City had the worst air quality rating of any major city in the world Thursday, forcing artists to interrupt or cancel their performances in the famed Broadway theaters while authorities urged people to remain doors.
France’s parliament observed a moment of silence, and the nation’s president expressed “shock” after a man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults near a famous lake in the French Alps on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Alabama to adopt a congressional map that includes two majority-Black districts, saying the current map violates the Voting Rights Act because it unfairly dilutes the power of the state’s Black residents.
Nearly 40 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone (ADIZ) in about six hours, the island’s defense ministry said Thursday.
The president of war-torn Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has visited his country’s southern Kherson region hit by floods after Tuesday’s breach of a massive dam reportedly killed at least five people and impacted thousands. Zelensky’s visit came amid concerns that landmines dislodged by flooding could harm residents, and Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of shelling rescue workers.
Pastors have been jailed, and churches have been closed in India’s Uttar Pradesh state by Hindu nationalists intent on stifling Christianity and the spreading of the Gospel in their region, Morning Star News reports.
Pat Robertson, the famed American televangelist who once ran for president and founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), has died. He was 93, his son and the network announced.
China reached a secret agreement with Cuba to open a spy base on the island, in Beijing’s latest display of disrespect to the Biden administration, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with the highly classified intelligence.
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday marched in Tel Aviv’s Pride parade – an annual celebration that turns the city’s seaside promenade into a boisterous festival of rainbow flags, pounding music and colorful costumes.
he Israel Defense Forces on Thursday wrapped up a two-week drill focused on a potential multi-front war with Iran and its terror proxies across the Middle East, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah.
ermany is set to host NATO’s largest air force deployment over Europe in the alliance’s history, officials said on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a plan to cancel his student debt relief plan.
The Louisiana state House on Wednesday approved a ban on gender-related treatments for minors by a veto-proof margin.
If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant present the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet with a plan to strike Iran, it would pass by a large majority, unlike the situation 10 years ago, when Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak could not get such support in that forum.
Three years after the signing of the Abraham Accords, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on a mission to steady Washington’s relationship with Riyadh after Biden’s insulting 2021 election statements, ongoing oil disagreements, and disputes on Iran policy.
Kyiv pleaded for international help on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people were at risk of drowning following the collapse of a gigantic dam in a Russian-occupied region of southern Ukraine.
Christian leaders in South Sudan have issued urgent calls for peace after the Bishop of Morobo and his driver survived a violent abduction by armed insurgents on Monday, Christian Today (CT) reports. The kidnappers claimed to be members of the National Salvation Front, a militant group opposed to the South Sudanese government.
Members of Assyrian advocacy organizations gathered in Washington DC Tuesday in support of a bipartisan resolution being introduced at Congress to commemorate the Semele Massacre of 1933, when Iraqi armed forces murdered an estimated 3,000 Assyrian men, women, and children in an act of Genocide. Assyrians continue to experience modern-day crimes against humanity and ethnic persecution, currently from Islamic State actors.
Israel carried out its first drone air taxi test this week, as part of a new initiative to relieve traffic congestion on the roads, i24News reports. This week’s test involved 11 drone companies, and represents the first time Israel has tried drone technology for the purpose of operating taxis.
French protesters angry about President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms stormed the Paris 2024 Olympic Games headquarters as part of Tuesday’s demonstrations and strikes disrupting France.