Romania was expected Wednesday to support longtime Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who became the next secretary general of the NATO military alliance after Hungary dropped its objections and Slovakia’s president signaled his country’s support.
Eager to receive more military aid, Russian President Vladimir Putin began visiting North Korea after his plane touched down in the capital, Pyongyang, in the middle of the night.
Senior U.S. and Israeli officials will meet at the White House after fresh evidence suggested that Iran is further moving towards obtaining nuclear weapons, Worthy News learned Wednesday.
An overnight attack on two oil depots inside Russia’s Rostov region was reportedly carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine, just days after several countries agreed with Kyiv that it could use Western weapons to hit targets on Russian territory despite concerns about nuclear escalation.
The United States’ Biden administration is understood to be in the final stages of negotiating a security pact with Saudi Arabia that stipulates the US would defend the Saudi Kingdom in the event of an attack, while Riyadh would be obligated to block Russia and China from setting up military bases on its territory, the Jerusalem Post reports.
In an apparent refusal to heed Western demands that Iran’s Islamic regime deescalates its nuclear program and halt all material support of Russia, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has called on the Group of Seven (G7) world powers to cease their “destructive policies of the past,” Reuters reports.
Pope Francis has urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government to end the massacres by Islamic fighters in the east of the country and protect civilians, including Christians.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Hungary, like all other sovereign European countries, has the right to impose an absolute ban on assisted suicide.
The US military last week destroyed radar sites used by Houthi Shia Islamic rebels in Yemen to attack international commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, UPI reports.
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister suggested Monday that he would not block the nomination of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next secretary general of the NATO military alliance despite misgivings over his past remarks about Hungarian policies.
A major nine-year-long study from Germany has found that two-thirds of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of it within five years, the Washington Stand reports.
Hungary’s hardline prime minister has condemned a decision by the European Union’s top court to fine his nation 200 million euros ($216 million) and impose a daily one-million-euro penalty for failing to follow the bloc’s asylum laws.
The United Nations has warned that the world’s unprecedented debt threatens the global economy.
Russian special forces freed two guards and killed six men linked to the Islamic State group while elsewhere in Europe, in Germany, police shot a man threatening huge soccer crowds, officials said.
The final declaration at this weekend’s so-called “peace summit” of world leaders in Switzerland on ending the war in Ukraine was not heading for unanimous support despite concerns about the impact of the armed conflict on those whose lives have just begun. It came after Russia, which wasn’t invited, had already demanded more territory before a ceasefire. The standoff came as many fathers fought on the battlefields on what is Father’s Day in many countries amid concerns about thousands of forcibly displaced children.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv give up more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop efforts to join the NATO military alliance to end the war in Ukraine.
Johan Floderus, the Swedish European Union diplomat held in captivity for two years in Iran, has been freed and is on his way home in a prisoners swap, the Swedish prime minister confirmed.
yril Ramaphosa faced major security and social challenges Saturday after being reelected for a second term as South Africa’s president, despite major corruption scandals that underscored the nation’s fragile post-apartheid political era.
European Union envoys “agreed in principle” late Friday on launching EU membership talks with wartorn Ukraine and Moldova after Hungary withdrew its opposition, officials said.
An Italian “anti-fascist” on trial for allegedly attacking neo-Nazis has been freed from house arrest in Budapest as she was elected to the European Parliament, which grants her immunity from persecution, officials said.