Conventions are done, states begin voting next month, and a turbulent summer election season climaxes by Democrats sending Vice President Kamala Harris up against former President Donald Trump.
Investigations were underway in Pakistan Mondy after at least 37 people, including a dozen who were returning from a religious pilgrimage in Iraq, died Sunday in two unrelated bus crashes in Pakistan, officials said.
Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump linked his main rival for the race to the White House’s involvement in the deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on the third anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.
Israel’s military said Monday it used a drone to attack “an operations room,” killing “five terrorists” in Tulkarm in the Palestinian enclave of the West Bank, also known by its biblical names Judaea and Samaria.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant cautioned that “Iran’s aggression has reached an all-time high” during a Monday meeting with U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown in a meeting held in Tel Aviv on Monday.
Much of Ukraine plunged into darkness Monday after its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said his nation suffered “one of the biggest combined strikes” of the war waged by Russia on Ukraine, killing and injuring numerous people.
Dozens of people were killed in southwestern Pakistan, where separatists and other Islamic terrorists attacked targets before the military responded.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday there was no political motive behind the arrest of Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of the social media platform and messaging application Telegram.
A county court in Ohio on Friday on Friday issued a temporary injunction to block several state statutes that collectively mandate a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion, the Associated Press reports. Ohio’s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost said he would appeal the decision.
Since a new law was enacted in 2021, the Texas Secretary of State’s Office has removed more than 1.1 million people from the state’s voter rolls.
Wycliffe Associates, an international organization that empowers mother-tongue Bible translators and partners with local churches in the advancement of Bible translation, has developed and launched an app for iOS and Android that brings the Bible’s New Testament to life through seven sign languages used in the African nations of Benin, Cameroon-Anglo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, and Togo. The “Sign Language Bible” is now available on Play Store.
In a narrow majority decision last week, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that state voters will not be allowed to decide on an abortion rights ballot initiative in November because the signed petitions requesting the measure were not filed properly, the Associated Press reports.
Mexico last week saw demonstrations against the violation of religious freedoms as protestors gathered in Mexico City and the city of Oaxaca to show their anger about how authorities have subjected a Protestant minority community to discrimination, violence, and arbitrary detention, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
In a victory for pro-life activists, Florida’s Supreme Court ruled last week that Amendment 4, a pro-choice measure to be voted on in the November ballot, can be accompanied by a financial statement warning that state taxpayers may have to pay for abortions if the amendment passes, the Washington Times reports.
Seven US pro-life activists are facing up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine after being convicted last week (August 20) of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and engaging in a “Conspiracy Against Rights”, Christian Post (CP) reports.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family members have condemned his decision to suspend his 2024 presidential election campaign and endorse Republican Donald J. Trump, with whom he appeared at a political rally for the first time.
The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, has played a major role in exchanging 115 prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, Worthy News established Sunday.
A British man working for the Reuters news agency has been killed in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said on Sunday.
A 26-year-old Syrian, who shares the ideology of the Islamic State group, has turned himself in after allegedly killing three people and injuring eight others with a knife at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, prosecutors say.
Hamas said late Sunday that it rejects new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire-hostage talks, raising concerns there won’t be a breakthrough in efforts to end the 10-month-old war as fears mount of a broader armed conflict in the region.