Swedish activist Greta Thunberg alleged on Tuesday that she and other detainees of the Gaza flotilla were subjected to torture in the Israeli prison they were held.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield.

Donald Trump’s threat to invoke a federal anti-insurrection law to expand his deployment of military personnel to U.S. cities has intensified his legal battle with Democratic-led cities over presidential authority, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas prepared to patrol the streets of Chicago.

Heads of state will begin arriving in the Amazon city of Belem in a month for the United Nations climate summit, but the infrastructure meant to receive them remains unfinished.

Any European Union decision on using frozen Russian state assets to help Ukraine must follow international law and the European Central Bank is “very attentive” to the process, ECB President Christine Lagarde said.

A man has been charged after a window of the New Zealand Foreign Minister’s home was smashed with a crowbar and a note pinned to his front door that said “welcome to the real world”, the Minister’s spokesperson said.

Mexico’s agriculture ministry said another case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite was detected in Nuevo Leon state, which borders the United States.

Syria published preliminary results of its indirect vote for the first parliament since Bashar al-Assad’s historic toppling last year, with election officials acknowledging a low success rate for women and religious minorities.

A Democrat-led civil rights watchdog agency opened a sweeping investigation into how the federal government has responded to allegations of antisemitism on college campuses.

Pope Leo cancelled the Vatican bank’s sole authority over investments held by the city-state, rolling back one of the financial reforms of his predecessor Francis.

Illinois launched a legal challenge on Monday to block U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into the streets of Chicago – the latest flashpoint in a growing number of court battles over the Republican president’s authority to deploy military forces domestically.

The U.S. government shutdown entered its sixth day, with President Donald Trump’s Republicans and congressional Democrats still at an impasse and the White House threatening to ramp up pressure by ordering mass layoffs of federal workers.