Hungary’s new government plans to impose an annual wealth tax on the country’s richest residents from next year as authorities widen investigations into billions of Hungarian forints in spending under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Russia secretly assisted Iran in developing advanced supersonic cruise missile technology that could threaten U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other American military assets in the Middle East, according to a new Financial Times investigation.

Indonesia on Wednesday struggled with a major volcano eruption and massive wildfires impacting millions of people across the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago.

Iran attacked American military positions across the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States carried out its largest strikes against the Islamic Republic since July, raising fears that their six-month conflict is returning to full-scale regional warfare.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned international airlines and insurers that Russian airspace is becoming increasingly dangerous as Ukraine expands long-range drone and missile attacks in response to Moscow’s invasion.

Germany has accused Russia of carrying out a “hybrid attack” involving an explosives-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft at Leipzig/Halle Airport, prompting Berlin to close a Russian consulate and cultural center.

Haitians were demanding answers after hundreds of mourners crowded into a church near the capital for the funeral of four of 47 people killed in one of the country’s deadliest recent gang attacks, which also devastated a Christian community and displaced thousands.

The United States launched a new wave of strikes against Iranian targets Tuesday as tensions escalated in and around the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical oil-shipping corridors, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A man was killed and two police officers wounded early Tuesday in an extraordinary shooting involving heavily armed men in the eastern Netherlands that investigators reportedly suspect was a revenge attack tied to the criminal underworld.

An emerging alliance between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorists is raising alarms among U.S. and regional officials, according to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal.

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.

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.