The leader of the Dutch Anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) said Wednesday he won’t become the next prime minister of the Netherlands despite his party’s election victory, but he didn’t rule out such a role in the future.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West that his country was technically ready for a nuclear war although he was not rushing to use nuclear weapons, however, his nuclear saber rattling was a warning to the West as NATO troops are being considered for deployment in Ukraine and stated, “Weapons exist in order to use them.”
On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that an airstrike led to the death of a senior Hamas leader in Lebanon who was responsible for worldwide attacks against Jews.
During a Wednesday visit to the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant suggested that a military operation by the Israel Defense Forces targeting Hamas units in Rafah will happen “soon.”
Alarmed at the number of people charged and incarcerated for blasphemy in Pakistan, rights advocates are demanding legislative charges to protect against blatant Islamic extremist abuse of blasphemy laws to persecute not only those of minority faiths but Muslims as well, Christian Daily reports.
he tragic deaths of 11 YWAM missionary leaders in a road traffic accident in Tanzania last month has highlighted the neglect of road safety measures across the African continent, Christian Daily reports. The 11 missionaries had been participating in the “Executive Masters in Leadership” course, based at YWAM Arusha, Tanzania when a truck suffered a brake failure and crashed into the bus they were traveling in on Feb. 24, killing them and severely injuring others.
A state judge on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia case that accuses the former president of trying to interfere with the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump picked up 59 delegates after winning Georgia Tuesday, and with another victory in Mississippi and an expected win in Washington state, he will exceed the necessary delegate count to become the presumptive Republican nominee.
Israeli researchers have installed a muon detector in a cavern under Jerusalem’s Old City in the hope it will use subatomic particles created by cosmic rays to send images of previously inaccessible ancient passageways, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed in overnight Russian drone and bomb attacks in eastern Ukraine as fighting intensifies. Elsewhere, the top aide of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was attacked outside his home in Lithuania amid growing fears of Russian operations in Europe. The reported Russian attacks come a day after Moscow acknowledged that Ukraine-backed paramilitary groups had entered Russia.
The United States was rushing Tuesday to get aid by sea into wartorn Gaza, with officials saying Washington may ask allies to fund a privately run aid operation ahead of a much larger US military effort.
The White House asked Special Counsel Robert Hur to make changes to descriptions of President Joe Biden’s memory in Hur’s bombshell report on how the president handled classified documents.
The Biden administration will send a new $300 million ’emergency’ military aid package for Ukraine bypassing Congress after its plans to assist Kyiv have been stalled on Capitol Hill, White House National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan announced on Tuesday.
As Haiti continues to struggle under the brutal grip of lawless gangs who have now succeeded in pressuring President Ariel Henry to resign, a Catholic archbishop is warning that churchgoers in the small Caribbean state are being abducted at an alarming rate, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered several defeats Tuesday with Kyiv-backed paramilitary groups entering Russia while a Russian military transport plane crashed, killing several people.
China, Iran, and Russia have begun a massive joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman, adding to Western concerns about heightened military tensions in the region.
In an effort to curb evangelism, Hindu lawmakers in India’s Assam state have passed a law criminalizing “magical” prayer for healing, Christianity Today (CT) reports.
The US Department of Agriculture published its 2022 Census of Agriculture on Feb. 13, showing that the number of farms in America decreased by 7%, or 141,733, between 2017 and 2022, Farm Bureau reports.
Hezbollah, the Iranian backed terrorist organization fired over 100 rockets at northern Israel, escalating the conflict along the Lebanese border on Tuesday. In response, Israel conducted airstrikes targeting Hezbollah’s positions throughout Lebanon. In the wake of these attacks, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for “War, Now!”
European authorities have disrupted several terrorism plots, some involving suspects masquerading as refugees, raising concerns about the number of increasing threats from extremists, some of which are motivated by Israel’s war against Hamas, according to the Wall Street Journal.