Category: World

1,719 Confirmed Dead, 50,000 Still Missing: Venezuela’s Earthquake Relief Effort Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight Twin earthquakes measuring Mw 7.2 and Mw 7.5, striking 39 seconds apart, hit northwestern and central Venezuela on June 24, 2026, in the strongest seismic event to strike the country since 1900; the confirmed death toll reached 1,719 by…

1,300 Europeans Dead in One Week: The Heatwave Everyone Predicted Finally Arrived and Nobody Was Ready The World Health Organization reported more than 1,300 excess deaths across Europe between June 21 and June 28, 2026, as a prolonged high-pressure heat dome stalled over the continent and drove temperatures to all-time national records across multiple countries…

Israel Kept Bombing Lebanon Two Days After Signing a Peace Deal — and Hezbollah Says It Isn’t Bound by It Two days after a U.S.-brokered framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon was signed in Washington on June 26, 2026, Israel resumed air strikes on targets in southern Lebanon on June 28. U.S. Secretary of State…

Rescue Clock Runs Out: Venezuela Earthquake Kills 1,450 and Leaves 68,000 Unaccounted For On June 24, 2026, two powerful earthquakes struck northwestern and central Venezuela in rapid succession — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock — knocking down buildings across Caracas and the coastal city of La Guaira.…

Iran Missiles Hit Bahrain and Kuwait After U.S. Strikes, Then Both Sides Agree to Stand Down — For Now On June 28, 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles and drones targeting the U.S. Ali al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, in retaliation for American airstrikes…

Third-Largest Ebola Outbreak Ever Has No Vaccine — and Africa’s CDC Says It Could Become the Worst The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have been battling an outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola virus since May 15, 2026, when laboratory tests confirmed infections in northeastern DRC and in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. As of June 25, the…

1,430 Dead and 51,000 Missing: Venezuela’s Earthquake Rescue Is Losing the Race Against Time Two earthquakes — magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 — struck near Morón on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast on June 25, 2026, among the strongest to hit the country in more than a century. The death toll has climbed to at least 1,430, with…

Iran Bombs U.S. Military Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain — Then Threatens to Kill Peace Talks Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched drone and missile strikes against U.S. military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain early Sunday, hours after American forces struck Iranian missile storage sites and coastal radar installations. President Trump confirmed the U.S. strikes…

Ukraine Fires 660 Drones at Russia in One Night — and Russia Hit Back Just as Hard Ukraine launched one of its largest drone offensives of the war overnight on June 25-26, 2026, sending an estimated 660 drones against 12 Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea, and targets in the Black Sea and Azov Sea. Russia’s Defense…

Venezuela’s Earthquake Death Toll Climbs Past 920 — and the Country Was Already Broken Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela’s northern coast on the evening of June 24, 2026 — a magnitude 7.2, followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5, the most powerful tremor to hit the country in more than a century. Buildings collapsed…