NIGERIA - Nigerian Catholic bishops on Tuesday issued an urgent and collective call to arms to the Nigerian government to protect the lives and property of all citizens and immediately stop the decimation of Christian communities and the abduction of hundreds of young girls and teachers. After meeting in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Tuesday, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria issued a statement expressing “grave concern” that several predominantly Christian communities in the northern and “Middle Belt” regions of the country have come under “repeated and brutal attacks, resulting in heavy casualties and the tragic loss of many Christian lives.” The bishops also called out local security forces for failing to respond and stop the targeted killings.

USA - An earthquake swarm has rocked Central California for the third straight day, adding to the fears that the fabled 'Big One' could be edging closer to ravaging the state. Three minor earthquakes were detected less than 30 miles south of San Jose Friday morning, striking within three minutes of each other between 10.40 and 10.43am ET. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the first tremor registered as a magnitude 3.4 earthquake, and was then followed moments later by magnitude 2.6 and 2.5 quakes. No injuries or damage to local property has been reported at this time. Quakes between 2.5 and 5.4 in magnitude are often felt for several miles in all directions but typically cause only minor damage, such as knocking objects off shelves.

USA - A major earthquake hit Alaska on Thursday, with thousands of people feeling shaking near one of the state's largest cities. The 6.0 magnitude quake was detected around 8:11 am local time (12:11pm ET), with Susitna as the epicenter, about 30 miles from Anchorage, which is home to 300,000 Americans. More than 6,000 people have issued reports of shaking to the US Geological Service (USGS), and the number of reports continues to climb. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. Authorities are currently assessing the impact.

USA - Donald Trump has revoked all executive orders signed by Joe Biden using an autopen. Since leaving office, Mr Biden has been heavily criticised for his administration’s use of the autopen, an electronic device used for replicating signatures. Mr Trump and other Republicans claim the autopen was exploited by aides to sign off on presidential orders, including pardons, without Mr Biden’s knowledge. “I am hereby cancelling all executive orders and anything else that was not directly signed by Joe Biden, because the people who operated the autopen did so illegally.”

GREECE - Greece is confronting a growing strain on its water network as several parts of the country now operate under formal emergency status. Authorities have already issued declarations for Attica, Leros, and Patmos, and officials say Meganisi in Lefkada is likely to be added shortly. One immediate result of the emergency framework is the activation of several short-term interventions. Water officials are preparing additional wells that could contribute roughly forty-five million cubic meters of groundwater to the national grid annually. At the same time, ministries have been instructed to speed up technical reviews for desalination facilities, a key priority for the islands, where shortages typically appear earlier and more acutely.

GERMANY - For the first time since the party entered parliament about nine years ago, the anti-democratic cordon sanitaire around the right-wing, anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland appears to have cracked wide open. According to the latest INSA/Bild poll, fewer than half of all German voters (just 49%) now say they would “never” vote AfD — down from a staggering 75% only a few years ago. This is nothing short of a historic breakthrough. Despite years of state-funded smear campaigns, constant domestic intelligence surveillance (Verfassungsschutz), court cases, job dismissals, bank account closures, repeated violence against party members by left-globalist extremists, and even serious discussions about banning the party outright, ordinary Germans are finally seeing through the propaganda and recognizing the AfD as the only serious opposition to a failing system.

USA - A bombshell report from the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) revealed in June 2025 that 55 Afghan evacuees who were on the terrorist watchlist either made it to the US or were added to the list after arriving — all during Joe Biden’s chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan. The 87-page audit, released in June 2025, provides disturbing confirmation that Biden’s so-called “Operation Allies Welcome” allowed known or suspected terrorists to enter the country through rushed, incomplete vetting processes. The Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal didn’t just leave billions in US equipment in Taliban hands — it also airlifted potential jihadists right into the heart of our communities. On Wednesday two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan 'refugee' in Washington DC.

USA - A National Guard member died on Thursday after being shot near the White House in an ambush that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national, an attack President Donald Trump blamed on Biden-era immigration vetting failures as he ordered a sweeping review of asylum cases. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died of her wounds and her fellow Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, 24, was "fighting for his life," Trump said, as investigators conducted what officials said was a terrorism probe after Wednesday's shooting. Trump said the alleged gunman was among thousands of Afghans who came in unvetted as the US carried out a chaotic withdrawal in 2021.

USA - The Mamdani transition team has a disproportionate number of Arabs and Muslims on it. For example, the Committee on Arts and Culture includes 5 people from the Muslim world, the Committee on Community Organizing features 6 people from the Muslim world, the Committee on Community Safety has 3, the Committee on Government Operations has 4, the Committee on Immigrant Justice has 8, the Committee on Legal Affairs has 6, and the Committee on Small Businesses has 4. And the transition team includes some of the most extreme figures in New York City politics. Unsurprisingly, for the transition team of a politician whose signature issue was validating Islamic violence and hatred against Jews through moral inversion, Mamdani’s transition team stands out for the sheer number of members who hate Jews. Mamdani raised $4 million to build a team of the same old radicals he already knew, who have nothing but contempt and hatred for America and for New York City, and who plan to destroy it under the guise of implementing policies that they know are unworkable and insane.

FRANCE - A report from France’s domestic intelligence agency has identified Christians as the “prime target” for radical Islamists, who are actively trying to stoke anti-Christian sentiment in the West with “anti-crusader” propaganda. A French-language ISIS magazine, Dar al-Islam, similarly called on followers in 2015 to attack Christian churches to “instil fear in their hearts.” The French report also quoted former ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, as saying: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women… They will sell your sons in the slave market.” Groups like al Qaeda and ISIS frequently brand Christians as followers of a “deviant faith”, “unbelievers”, “idolaters”, or “infidels”, the DGSI said. Such rhetoric has resulted in numerous terror attacks in Europe and the rest of the world on Christians over the past three decades, the report found.