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Jared Kushner held an hourslong meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel one day after speaking with Hamas representatives, in an effort to restart a stalled Gaza agreement. Israel agreed to form working groups on the Board of Peace's demilitarization plan, and sources said the two sides discussed a U.S. general overseeing the process. No breakthrough was announced.

Canada is racing to reach a deal with the Trump administration before a fresh wave of U.S. tariffs on its exports takes effect Wednesday. The duties could reach 50 percent on some goods. Negotiators have been meeting through the weekend.

President Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it 'gets in the way' of a deal with Iran, as the 60-day window for peace negotiations expired with the war still in stalemate. Oman has been holding its own talks with Tehran aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The White House has not said what follows the lapsed deadline.

A Russian court sentenced a prominent Kremlin critic to 11 years in prison for opposing the war in Ukraine. Prosecutors charged him under laws criminalizing the spread of false information about the military. Rights groups called the sentence one of the harshest yet handed to an anti-war figure.

Flooding is ongoing across parts of Indiana while other communities have turned to cleanup after heavy rain. Crews are assessing damage to roads and homes. Officials have warned residents to avoid flooded roadways.

Religious freedom advocates accused South Korean authorities of using the legal system against leaders of churches and new religious movements. They cite a pattern of prosecutions and asset seizures. Seoul says the cases involve fraud, not belief.

A Russian state economist was dismissed after publicly warning about the trajectory of Moscow's economy under sustained war spending and sanctions. The removal underscores the narrowing space for candid analysis inside state institutions. Officials have not commented on the dismissal.

Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to a record-low elevation of 3,519.8 feet, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The Colorado River system has been under sustained drought stress. The level raises new questions about hydropower generation at Glen Canyon Dam.

Days after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia, Christian relief organizations are shifting from search operations to long-term rebuilding. Local churches are housing displaced families. Aid workers say supply routes remain difficult.

Britain's prime minister reportedly exchanged messages with someone impersonating a senior White House official. The episode has raised questions about verification practices for high-level communications. Officials in both countries are reviewing what was shared.

Zambian authorities arrested several leading opposition figures days after the country's presidential election. The party says the arrests are an attempt to suppress challenges to the result. Government officials say the detentions relate to public order offenses.

Storm Lala damaged bridges and more than 100 homes on Hawaii's Big Island. Officials are assessing infrastructure damage and access to isolated communities. Recovery work is under way.

The Supreme Court declined for a second time to disturb the $5 million jury verdict against President Trump in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case. The order clears the way for Carroll to collect the award. Trump's lawyers had argued that evidence admitted at trial was improper.

Police in Wenzhou, the Chinese city sometimes called 'China's Jerusalem,' raided a house church and took founding pastor David Tang into custody along with six colleagues. All seven have since disappeared with no word on their whereabouts. Advocacy groups say the raid fits a pattern of tightening pressure on unregistered congregations.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of deadly long-range strikes, with casualties reported on both sides. The attacks come as winter approaches and both militaries target energy and defense infrastructure. Neither side signaled movement toward talks.

About 270,000 square miles of ocean around Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, will become a marine reserve managed by the island's Indigenous community. Residents depend heavily on local fisheries. The arrangement gives Rapa Nui authority over enforcement and use.

An American tourist was killed by a lightning strike while hiking on Mount Etna in Sicily. The group was descending when the storm moved in. Italian authorities are investigating the circumstances.

After winning a million euros, a woman in southern Italy accidentally threw her lottery ticket in the trash. The local sanitation company launched an hourslong search through an entire truckload of garbage. The workers found it.

Nigerian forces have freed additional victims of recent mass kidnappings, but attacks on schools and villages continue. Church leaders say Christian communities remain particularly exposed. The government faces mounting pressure over its security response.

President Trump said the United States will reduce joint military exercises with South Korea after Seoul declined to join the war with Iran, citing his 'very good relationship' with North Korea's leader. South Korean officials say they hope to open talks over the decision. Democratic lawmakers called the cuts inane and haphazard.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the deadliest the country has recorded, after already being the fastest growing on record. It is caused by Bundibugyo, a rare species of the virus. Health workers are struggling to contain spread in affected provinces.

The World Council of Churches issued support for the Armenian Apostolic Church in its standoff with the Armenian government. Clergy have been detained and church property contested. The council urged authorities to respect the church's independence.

The Trump administration is directing nearly $2 billion to religious and community organizations working in global health and disaster relief, including World Vision and Samaritan's Purse. It is the largest such allocation in more than two decades and follows deep cuts to USAID. Critics question whether faith-based groups can absorb the scale of the work.

Renovation crews in Belgium broke through a cellar wall and found gold bars and coins worth an estimated $10.4 million. Authorities are trying to determine who hid the cache and who has a claim to it.

Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes on several towns in the south killed eleven people, the deadliest day there in months. Israel described the targets as Hezbollah infrastructure rebuilt in violation of the ceasefire.

Ukrainian cruise missiles hit one of Russia's largest solid-fuel rocket motor plants, touching off fires visible from miles away. The strike extends a campaign aimed at the industrial base feeding Russia's missile arsenal.

Seoul offered to open negotiations with Pyongyang aimed at replacing the 1953 armistice with a formal peace declaration. The proposal is the most concrete overture in years, though the North has not responded.

Tehran dismissed as "delusions" President Trump's remark that the United States has total control of the Strait of Hormuz and might keep it, insisting the waterway "will remain Iranian." Iranian state media escalated the propaganda war with billboards promising revenge as the standoff over the shipping chokepoint hardens.

Two powerful earthquakes struck off the Indonesian coast in a single day, the larger measuring magnitude 7.7, killing at least 47 people and collapsing homes and public buildings. Rescue crews are digging through rubble while officials warn the death toll is likely to climb as reports arrive from outlying districts.

Afghans who served alongside American forces and resettled in the United States say new vetting rules have thrown their permanent residency into doubt. Veterans who fought beside them are lobbying to keep the promises that brought them here.

A Pakistani court delivered the first conviction stemming from the mob attacks that burned churches and homes in the Christian enclave of Jaranwala. Advocates called it a rare and overdue step toward accountability.

Christians in Tunisia describe practicing their faith quietly in a country that mixes permissive nightlife with a history of exporting ISIS fighters. Converts risk family rejection and social exclusion. Congregations meet in homes.

Advocates say jailed Chinese pastor John Cao has been diagnosed with cancer, intensifying calls for his release on medical grounds. His family has been denied visits for long stretches of his sentence.

A Baptist pastor held by Syrian authorities has been freed after weeks in detention, according to advocacy groups that pressed for his case. His congregation says he was questioned over church gatherings.

Women in Afghanistan describe a half-decade of shrinking horizons, with schools closed, work barred and public life narrowed to the walls of a home. Several spoke at personal risk about what has been taken from them.

A missionary pilot abducted abroad has been released and is safe, both the president and the sending organization confirmed. The agency thanked those who prayed and asked for privacy as the family reunites.

The French Constitutional Council struck down a law that would have barred children under 15 from social media, ruling it went too far against freedom of expression and privacy. The decision resets Europe's debate over how to shield minors online.

In the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, pastors Juan Garcia and Javier Santolaria have continued ministering after roughly 80,000 migrants passed through the city. They describe handing out water at a public fountain during a July heat wave. Their congregations remain small but persistent.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Polish forces thwarted a Russian plot to assassinate an American citizen in Warsaw, describing it as an unprecedented act by Moscow on Polish soil.

A new White House report names more than 40 countries as elevated transshipment risks, accusing China of routing billions of dollars in goods through third nations with lower tariff rates to avoid the duties imposed since 2018. The administration puts the cost to the United States at as much as $26 billion in lost revenue.

A live bullet discovered aboard United Airlines Flight 1302 forced all 178 passengers off the Boeing 737-900 at Denver International Airport for a security sweep.

As sanctions tighten and a Strait of Hormuz deadline approaches, analysts warn that Iran could strike U.S. bases, ships and Gulf infrastructure this fall rather than absorb the economic squeeze quietly.

A federal prosecutor confirmed that laboratory tests on a white crystal-like substance found in the van of a man shot to death by immigration officers in Houston last month showed it was not methamphetamine.

A third migrant held at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey's largest immigration detention facility, has died following a medical emergency, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed.

Thousands of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed for more than 250 days in support of the Iran war, have reportedly faced food shortages and broken plumbing, with at least two crew members said to have tried to jump overboard. Democratic senators are demanding answers, the USS George Washington is heading out to relieve the carrier, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the reports are 'completely misrepresented.'

Newly disclosed records show the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into meetings and infiltrated the group chats of prominent leftwing organizations and protesters opposing the administration's immigration crackdown.

Sen. Susan Collins announced that all Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers operating in Maine have been outfitted with body cameras, following a fatal shooting in the state last month.

Chile transferred nearly 300 high-risk inmates to a sprawling new prison as hard-line President Jose Antonio Kast works to regain momentum on his central campaign promise to break organized crime.

A preliminary report by U.S. investigators found that an engine fan blade broke apart on last month's Ryanair flight from Greece to Germany, sending debris through a cabin window that a man's head was partly sucked out of.

Forecasters say a potentially historic El Nino is taking shape, with far-reaching effects expected across the United States and globally. California is already bracing for what the pattern could bring this winter.