NPR: Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda. The…

ABC News, by Ken Dilanian, Julia Ainsley, Tom Winter and Jonathan Dienst: Pro-Hamas extremists are flooding social media platforms with calls for attacks on Jewish communities and other targets in the U.S. and Europe, prompting U.S. law enforcement agencies to…

Russian News Agency: North Korea warned the United States about the possibility of carrying a preemptive nuclear strike over its attempts to unleash a nuclear war by deploying its strategic capabilities on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Central News Agency…

MSN, by Irina Anghel, Joe Mayes and Ellen Milligan: At the New London Synagogue in North London, Rabbi Jeremy Gordon says some regular congregants have stopped attending services, while some Jewish schools have told pupils not to wear outward identifiers…

German Foreign Policy: Gaza, imminent Humanitarian catastrophe – ignored by von der Leyen. Her stance is met with heavy criticism within the EU. The War threatens to spread to other countries in the region. Iran consolidates anti-Israel forces. EU Commission…

ABC, by Nicola Heath, Lara Heaton, and Marc Fennell: Aside from those that involve the tooth fairy, cash transactions are at an all-time low. According to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), cash accounted for just 13 per cent of…

Yahoo News, by Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi: Israel formed an emergency unity government on Wednesday as its jets pounded Gaza and tanks massed around the Palestinian enclave, and the army said it killed three Hamas militants in a fresh…

VOA News, by Kim Hwanyong: South Korea is under a heightened alert, assessing how the widening crisis in the Middle East could impact its national security after the unprecedented attack that Palestinian militant group Hamas launched against Israel. South Korean…

The New York Times, by Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary: A powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 1,000 people….

Vatican News, by Linda Bordoni: The Mongolian Ambassador to the Holy See, Ms. Gerelmaa Davaasuren, presented her credentials to Pope Francis in December 2022, 30 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Mongolia. That anniversary…

AP News, by Stefanie Dazio and Damian Dovarganes: Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers took to picket lines in multiple states on Wednesday, launching a massive strike that the company warned could cause delays at its hospitals and clinics…

ABC, by Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa: Israeli soldiers fought to repel Hamas militants Sunday and exchanged fire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, raising the prospect of a broader regional conflagration a day after an unprecedented surprise attack on…