Category: World

U.S. Bombs Iranian Targets After Cargo Ship Attack — and the Ceasefire May Not Survive the Weekend On Thursday, June 26, 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired at least four drones at cargo ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz. One drone struck the upper deck of the M/V Ever Lovely, a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel;…

Iran Drones a Cargo Ship in the Strait of Hormuz — Blowing a Hole in Trump’s 60-Day Peace Deal Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Ever Lovely with a drone in the Strait of Hormuz on June 25, 2026, as the vessel was exiting the waterway, according to U.S. officials.…

The Ebola Outbreak With No Vaccine Has Reached Europe — and It’s Already the Second-Worst on Record The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ministry of Health reported 1,118 confirmed cases of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus as of June 24, 2026, including 291 confirmed deaths and 408 patients held in isolation — making…

Twin Earthquakes Flatten Venezuela: 235 Dead, Thousands Trapped, and a Post-Maduro Government Tested by Catastrophe Two massive earthquakes struck Venezuela’s northwestern coast in rapid succession on June 24, 2026 — a magnitude 7.2 tremor near San Felipe at approximately 6:04 p.m. local time, followed 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 event near Yumare, approximately…

France Shatters Its All-Time Heat Record, Loses Power for 106,000 Homes, and Reports 50 Dead France recorded its hottest temperature since measurements began in 1947 on June 23, 2026, when thermometers in the Landes department of southwest France reached 44.3 degrees Celsius (111.7 Fahrenheit), shattering the previous national all-time record set just the day before…

DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Second-Largest on Record — and There Is No Vaccine for This Strain An Ebola epidemic caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus — a strain for which no licensed vaccine or approved treatment exists — has spread across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and into Uganda, becoming the second-largest Ebola…

Twin Earthquakes Kill at Least 164 in Venezuela as USGS Warns Final Toll May Reach Thousands Two catastrophic earthquakes struck Venezuela in rapid succession on the evening of June 24, 2026: a magnitude 7.2 quake near San Felipe followed just 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 quake near Yumare, both roughly 285 to 293…

Trump Says Iran Agreed to Nuclear Inspections. Iran Says Absolutely Not. On June 23, 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced at a press conference in Switzerland that Iran had agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to return to nuclear sites bombed by the United States last year, calling it a “major milestone”…

Lebanon Demands Full Israeli Withdrawal. Israel Says Never. The Washington Talks Carry On Regardless. The fifth round of US-brokered Israel-Lebanon peace negotiations opened at the State Department in Washington on June 23, 2026, the first session since the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding [1]. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun declared that Beirut…

Czech President Sues His Own Prime Minister Just to Attend the NATO Summit Czech President Petr Pavel filed a constitutional court lawsuit against his government on June 23, 2026, after Prime Minister Andrej Babis announced that Pavel would be excluded from the Czech delegation to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, scheduled for July 7–8…