The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to intensify voter-fraud investigations in nine states ahead of the midterm elections, according to a Newsmax report citing federal guidance.

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $800 million foreign military sale to Iraq, a package aimed at strengthening Baghdad’s ability to move troops, conduct reconnaissance, and strike hostile targets amid continuing instability across the region.

Israel and Greece have signed a landmark defense agreement worth roughly €3 billion, or about $3.5 billion, under which Israel will help build a multi-layered air defense system for Greece known as “Achilles Shield.”

Israel’s military is raising its readiness level amid growing concern over Turkish naval movements in the eastern Mediterranean, as tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara continue to sharpen over Syria, Gaza, and Turkey’s expanding regional posture.

Christians and rights advocates in Pakistan have expressed mounting concern over reported deadly attacks, intimidation, abductions of girls and alleged forced conversions involving the nation’s Christian minority, with several incidents emerging across the Muslim-majority country.

The 41-year-old man who died after a large wooden sign fell at a major Christian festival in England was identified Sunday as Robert Guanco, a pastor at a church in the coastal town of Eastbourne.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to resume above-ground construction of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, lifting a lower-court order that had halted much of the project.

At least eight people were killed and 18 remained missing Sunday after a passenger ferry carrying 267 people capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, triggering a massive search-and-rescue operation.

Spain was seeking additional European Union help Sunday as thousands of migrants remained stranded in its North African enclave of Ceuta, a month after an unprecedented mass crossing from Morocco in which at least 96 people were confirmed dead.

Iceland will remain outside the European Union for now after voters rejected restarting membership negotiations with Brussels, choosing greater national control despite growing geopolitical uncertainty in the North Atlantic.

Hungary’s new government of Prime Minister Péter Magyar was racing Sunday to complete rule-of-law and anti-corruption reforms ahead of a crucial Monday deadline that could unlock 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) in European Union recovery funding blocked during the Viktor Orbán era.

Newly released memos from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul have renewed scrutiny of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of government communications during the COVID-19 era, with documents cited by Just the News alleging that Fauci instructed aides on multiple occasions to delete emails after reading them.

A federal judge in California ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot use immigration law to revoke visas or pursue deportation against lawfully present noncitizens solely over protected political speech, handing a legal setback to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s effort to remove foreign students accused of anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian activism.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on Muslim nations to close ranks against the United States and Israel, describing them as the “sworn enemies” of Muslim unity and urging regional leaders to identify and confront what he called their “real enemy.”

President Donald Trump said the United States has reached a major oil agreement with Venezuela that would give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the South American nation’s proven oil reserves, a move the administration is presenting as a breakthrough for U.S. energy security and long-term gasoline prices.

U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island in the first known U.S. military action against Iran in more than a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate with ballistic missiles against U.S. bases in Jordan.

A massive manhunt was underway Sunday after a 22-year-old woman was killed and five people injured, some seriously, in an overnight shooting at a rave in the Swiss town of Aarau, police said.

Christians in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have held a memorial service for a veteran Baptist pastor and an associate reportedly killed by government troops amid an ongoing military crackdown, Worthy News learned Sunday.

Scores of people have been killed after a Russian drone strike on a warehouse near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, triggered a massive detonation, authorities say. The tragedy comes as Moscow’s aerial attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region continued for a third consecutive day.

A Christian-run school caring for hundreds of impoverished and orphaned children as young as 2 near Kenya’s largest garbage dump has been forced from its premises by local authorities, with many youngsters returning to the sprawling dumpsite, its director told Worthy News Saturday.