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Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro has urged U.S. President Donald J. Trump not to drag America into an Afghanistan-style “forever war” as Washington expanded its most significant military deployment in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.

Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early Friday, killing at least six people in the capital Kyiv and two more in the south, while injuring at least 35, authorities said.

An international group of influential climate activists demand a new global treaty to phase out fossil fuels to prevent the “assassination of humanity,” despite growing concerns that there aren’t yet enough alternatives available to sustain global economic growth.

France paid an emotional tribute Thursday to the 130 people killed ten years ago during a night of coordinated attacks by Islamic State extremists who targeted cafés, restaurants, and the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that American forces, working alongside local Syrian partners, conducted more than 22 counterterrorism operations against ISIS between October 1 and November 6, significantly degrading the terror group’s operational capabilities across the region.

Archaeologists in the Czech capital have begun exhuming mass graves containing political prisoners executed under Czechoslovakia’s communist regime, in a major effort to identify victims whose resting places have remained unknown for more than seven decades.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has moved to contain mounting public anger over a major corruption scandal in the energy sector by firing two ministers accused of involvement in a vast bribery scheme, while Russian-affiliated churches report increased pressure during wartime.

A diplomatic spat between China and Japan — former wartime rivals whose relations remain fragile — escalated Wednesday after verbal attacks from Beijing and demands in Tokyo to expel a Chinese diplomat over remarks viewed as threatening Japan’s prime minister.

The European Union’s executive branch is setting up a new intelligence unit inside its Secretariat-General, despite concerns about growing EU control over citizens.

Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall (Het Koninklijk Concertgebouw) announced Wednesday it would allow Israeli Cantor Shai Abramson to perform after mounting protests and international media attention — including from Worthy News — over its decision to ban his Hanukkah concerts.

Venezuela has launched a massive two-day military mobilization involving nearly 200,000 troops as the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in Latin American waters Tuesday, significantly escalating regional military tensions.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was “deeply saddened” after a Turkish military cargo plane carrying 20 personnel crashed Tuesday in Georgia, near the border with Azerbaijan, and officials feared there were no survivors.

Europe marked the end of World War I with mixed emotions Tuesday, realizing that the armed conflict in Ukraine increasingly resembles the horrors of that era.

Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will prove his innocence after a court agreed to temporarily release him from the prison where he began serving a five-year sentence on October 21, 2025, following a conviction for “criminal conspiracy” linked to alleged Libyan campaign funding.

A British-born academic has left Radboud University in the Netherlands amid rising concerns about antisemitism on Dutch campuses following his highly controversial social-media comments defending Palestinian violence against Israel.