The Guardian, by Robin McKie: Scientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be…

The Guardian, by Helena Smith: People on the Aegean islands, more used in April to the sight and scent of spring’s blossoms, have been left reeling from flash floods spurred by typhoon-strength gales, with authorities calling a state of emergency…

CBN, by Chris Mitchell: President Donald Trump warned Iran that if the Tehran regime doesn’t negotiate, things will go very badly. Trump’s warning is the latest signal that military action by Israel and the U.S. may be the next major…

CBS News, by Kerry Breen: The U.S. beekeeping industry is in crisis over the shocking and unexplained deaths of hundreds of millions of bees over the last eight months.  It’s an unfolding disaster for the industry. Blake Shook, one of…

The Christian Post, by Anugrah Kumar: A Labour Party-run council in England has sparked outrage by proposing a sweeping injunction that could imprison Christian street preachers for up to two years over claims of causing “offense” or “distress.” Rushmoor Borough…

A leading German daily newspaper is now calling for the country to “pull out of the Two Plus Four Treaty”, clearing the way for Germany’s nuclear armament. A recent editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) argues that “German military…

The Christian Post, by Jon Brown: An ad from KFC that debuted in the United Kingdom and Ireland earlier this month has prompted hundreds of complaints for depicting what some have interpreted as a mockery of Christian baptism and glamorizing…

AP News, by David Rising: The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery. Fifty…

The Christian Post, by Ian M. Giatti: A gender studies professor in Virginia whose latest work focuses on rape and sexual assault in the Scriptures is leading a course on what it means to “queer” the Bible. The University of…

AP News, by Christopher Bodeen: An unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered airspace and waters surrounding Taiwan between Sunday and Monday, the self-governing island’s Defense Ministry said. China said the drills were a response to…

Reuters, by Andrius Sytas and Barbara Erling: NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines due to the military threat from their neighbour Russia, the four countries said on Tuesday. Quitting…

The Christian Post, by David Nabhan: Just days ago hundreds of Alawite, Christian and Druze civilians — men, women and children — were killed by the Syrian forces which recently toppled the Assad regime and took control of the country….