BUCHAREST, June 5 (Reuters) – A marine drone of the type used in the war in neighbouring Ukraine self-detonated on Friday in Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta near an oil terminal, without causing any casualties, the defence ministry said. The port was being evacuated, residents along Romania’s Black Sea coast were warned to take …
GENEVA, June 5 (Reuters) – The Middle East conflict is pushing millions of people closer to hunger, as rising fuel and transport costs drive up food prices while funding shortfalls force aid agencies to scale back assistance, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday. Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February triggered a regional …
By Alexander Cornwell, Rami Ayyub and Steve Holland JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the U.S. president’s backing. But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister …
June 5 (Reuters) – New Zealand will directly raise China’s “entirely inappropriate” ban on four lawmakers who visited Taiwan with Beijing, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Friday. Three backbenchers from New Zealand’s centre-right coalition, Laura McClure, David Wilson and Maureen Pugh, along with Duncan Webb from the Labour party, visited Taipei last month for …
Harrowing scenes are unfolding at health facilities at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A 25-year-old midwife and a doctor in his early 30s are sick with Ebola symptoms, including fevers and severe joint pain, said their colleague Elisabeth Furaha, the medical director at SOFEPADI’s Karibuni Wa Mama Medical …
The Belmont Stakes will host on Saturday a New York rematch of the top two finishing horses from the Kentucky Derby to wrap up horse racing’s Triple Crown for 2026. Nine horses are set to compete in the Belmont, the finale in the trio of races for 3-year-olds that make up the Triple Crown. No …
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country. “We could get it right now. I don’t think they could stop us if we wanted, but there’s no reason to. It’s entombed,” he told reporters in …
LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – The US State Department has waded into a British political storm that has erupted over the murder of a student in England, condemning what it called “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing” as a symptom of civilizational decline. Last year, Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white man, was handcuffed by police as …
SEOUL, June 5 (Reuters) – The head of South Korea’s National Election Commission said on Friday he was stepping down to take responsibility for the shortage of ballot papers in some districts in Wednesday’s local elections that disrupted voting and triggered a public outcry. (Reporting by Jack KimEditing by Ed Davies) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola that Congo is battling took locals by surprise after weeks of spreading unnoticed. Hundreds of cases were suspected when the outbreak was declared in May, but many dismissed the news as a “Western conspiracy.” Congolese authorities announced the new Ebola outbreak on May 15. As …