Recent satellite images show that major expansions are underway at two key missile facilities in Iran, suggesting Tehran is working to boost its conventional ballistic missile production, Reuters and Algemeiner report.
Seven Christian families in eastern India’s Odisha state have been rendered homeless after Hindu nationalists pressured their village leaders to evict them for leaving Hinduism, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
A Christian government minister in Malaysia is suing a top police official who accused her of evangelizing Malay Muslims in order to turn the country into a Christian nation, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Hungary’s prime minister defended his controversial trip to communist-run China to talk about peace in Ukraine, where officials said scores of people were killed and injured Monday in Russian attacks on a children’s hospital and other sites.
U.S.-based Boeing, one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers, agreed late Sunday to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government in a case linked to crashes of its 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.
Early Monday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation in southern Gaza City, targeting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists at a United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters. Hamas warned on Telegram that this renewed IDF campaign threatens ceasefire talks.
President Joe Biden called on fellow Democrats on Monday to stop questioning his fitness for office and his ability to defeat former Republican President Donald Trump.
Facing mounting pressure to step down in January, U.S. President Joe Biden sought prayer in one of Philadelphia’s biggest Black churches.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have been encouraged to vote against a bill that implements greater safeguards to ensure that non-citizens aren’t registered to vote in federal elections and imposes consequences if they are.
Responding to a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court last month that the Israel Defense Forces must immediately begin drafting previously exempt Yeshiva students, the IDF has submitted a plan to issue draft orders to 3,000 ultra-Orthodox men of military age, i24News reported on Monday.
Ukrainian officials say Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 29 people and smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv. The rare daytime Russian barrage came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Warsaw before he flew to the NATO military alliance summit in Washington.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a two-day state visit to Russia starting on Monday (July 8), Reuters reports.
An Islamic social media campaign has come under condemnation for using controversial statistics and statements to stir up fear and strife over the spread of Christianity in Indonesia, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived in Beijing on Monday as part of unprecedented efforts to reach peace in Ukraine despite anger from some European Union leaders. He came to meet China’s President Xi Jinping after talks with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and earlier Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Tensions remained high in the streets of Kenya’s capital Monday after dozens of activists said they were snatched from their homes or off the streets by hooded, armed men.
Newly elected British Prime Minister Kier Starmer suggested Sunday that Britain could soon recognize Palestinian statehood despite calls from Israel’s government to wait.
Ahead of negotiations in Cairo and Doha continuing this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined non-negotiable demands for a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas. Meanwhile, on the nine-month anniversary of Hamas’ attack, thousands of Israelis protested nationwide, demanding immediate elections and the release of 120 hostages since the war broke out on October 7.
In an unexpected, stunning outcome, the French left managed to beat a surging far right in the second and final round of legislative elections, winning the most parliamentary seats but not a majority, polling projections showed early Monday.
Whether faith-based groups are allowed to solely hire people that agree with their faith is a question again before the courts.
Diplomatic tensions are rising between Germany and Hungary after Budapest canceled a meeting between Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, planned for Monday in the Hungarian capital. The unusual last-minute cancellation of the German minister’s visit to Budapest comes after Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other European Union leaders condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as part of a self-declared peace mission for the war in Ukraine.