While the Chinese Communist Party’s possibly imminent invasion of Taiwan could spark a war in the region, experts and lawmakers in Congress on Thursday expressed that the Taiwan issue is just one part of a broader Chinese strategy countering the U.S.
The northern border largely has been unmanned and understaffed for decades as federal reports issue conflicting conclusions about how much, or how little, operational control exists.
Israel’s military suffered setbacks Thursday after officials confirmed that five troops were killed in a “friendly fire” incident in Gaza while elsewhere, an Israeli air force base in northern Israel was hit by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia.
Amid heightened tensions with Egypt since Israel began its ground operation against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday intimated that Egypt was holding Gazan civilians “hostage” by not working with him to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing for humanitarian aid to enter the war-torn enclave, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Christians across Latin America, most notably in Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua, are facing intensified persecution for their faith, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Islamic terrorists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday slaughtered 11 Christians, abducted several others, and burned down homes in Ndimo village, Ituri province, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
A lawyer in Pakistan is demanding that reluctant police authorities arrest an Islamist employer who caused a young Christian female employee to lose an ear and most of her scalp when he pushed her into an electric chaff cutter last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
France has declared a state of emergency on its Pacific island of New Caledonia, boosting police deployments and banning the video application TikTok after riots over electoral reform killed at least four people.
Interpol, the international police body, issued an alert Wednesday for a French inmate who was freed during a violent ambush of a prison convoy a day earlier that left two prison officers dead and seriously injuring three others.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was “expected to survive” following hours-long surgery after he was shot five times outside the House of Culture in the Slovak town of Handlová while meeting supporters.
Israel came under pressure Wednesday to accept an independent Palestinian state as Arab countries plan to join a U.S.-led peacekeeping force in wartorn Gaza, Western and Arab officials confirmed Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Likud) clashed on Wednesday over the future governance of the Gaza Strip after the current war with Hamas, exposing divisions within the ruling Israeli coalition government.
Arizona’s Supreme Court has granted Attorney General Kris Mayes more time to appeal to the nation’s highest court before a pre-statehood abortion ban would take effect.
A congressional committee on Wednesday examined the Department of Justice’s treatment of former President Donald Trump under the Biden administration.
Consumer prices are still on the rise, according to newly released federal inflation data.
After six months of often tense negotiations, the leaders of four parties agreed Wednesday on a cabinet in the Netherlands led by the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV).
Nine students who were abducted from Nigeria’s Confluence University of Science and Technology last week have all now been rescued, Reuters reports.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt outside the capital Bratislava. The motives of the gunman were not immediately clear, but it comes after a period of political turmoil in the Eastern European nation.
A pro-life activist with a history of organizing blockades of abortion clinics has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for leading the blockade of an abortion facility in Washington, DC, in 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron and other officials have forcefully condemned Tuesday’s antisemitic graffiti attack on Paris’ Wall of the Righteous Holocaust Memorial, AFP reports.