June 6
Armed conflicts and attacks
June 5
Business and economy
Hotel operator Archipelago International ends management agreements for six hotels in Cuba, citing compliance with United States sanctions.
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The Manila Times 
Hungary suspends the issuance of work visas for nationals of Armenia, Georgia, and the Philippines, citing plans to regulate non-European Union guest workers and concerns about the impact of foreign labor on domestic employment and wages.
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Reuters
Law and crime
A Dutch court sentences three men to 47 months' imprisonment for stealing Dacian golden artifacts, including the Helmet of Coțofenești, from the Drents Museum in Assen, Drenthe, in 2025.
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AP
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from a fire at a nursing home two days ago in Galpatha, Sri Lanka, rises to 13.
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CTV News
Sports
In American football, the National Football League's Chicago Bears vote to advance plans for stadium development in Hammond in northwest Indiana to replace Soldier Field as its home stadium. However, the site of the stadium still remains determined.
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AP
International relations
The Azerbaijani foreign ministry denies a CNN report claiming that the country allowed Israeli military and Mossad personnel to use southern Azerbaijan to launch attacks on Iran, one of which allegedly killed an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior officer.
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CNN
Rights groups file a case against Equatorial Guinea, demanding that the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights order the Equatoguinean government to immediately stop sending people deported from the United States back to their home countries, saying it violates the deportees' rights.
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AP
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar says that Israel will open its first embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, after its new prime minister Janez Janša ordered the Palestine flag at the main government building to be removed within an hour after taking office.
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Al Jazeera
A Malian court sentences a French embassy official to 20 years' imprisonment for undermining state security, and imposes a F.CFA 3.5 million (US$6,225) fine and entry ban. France states that the official was engaged in security cooperation.
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AFP via France 24
Armed conflicts and attacks
Mohsen Rezaee, the Iranian military advisor to the Supreme Leader, says that negotiations are in a "deadlock" and that it is up to the United States to end it.
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Al Jazeera
Axios reports that U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have traveled to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, to talk with nuclear experts who might take part in future negotiations with Iran regarding their nuclear program.
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Reuters
United States Indo-Pacific Command forces intercept the stateless vessel M/T in the Indian Ocean for allegedly supporting Iran.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2026 Strait of Hormuz campaignNaval blockade of Iran
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Al Jazeera
CNN reports that Israel has deployed commandos, military, and intelligence personnel, to Azerbaijan near its border with Iran during the war and carried out a covert intel mission in doing so.
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Times of Israel
Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri rejects the ceasefire deal with Israel, saying it is not a complete ceasefire and does not require an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon at the same time as Hezbollah.
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Al Jazeera
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun and prime minister Nawaf Salam criticize Iran for the rejection of the ceasefire deal with Israel, stating that Lebanon should not be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations between the United States and Iran.
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AP
At least five people, including a paramedic, are killed by Israeli airstrikes in the Nabatieh District, Lebanon.
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Al Jazeera
Israel's Southern Command says that it killed a Palestinian fighter in Gaza who was "planning imminent attacks" on the Israeli military and directing attacks inside Israel.
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Al Jazeera
Five Azerbaijani crew members are killed and three others are injured in an Ukrainian drone attack on two commercial vessels in Taganrog Bay, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
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The Moscow Times
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Reuters
Russian president Vladimir Putin rejects Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's proposal for a face-to-face meeting, stating that he sees "no point" and "the only point is for the Ukrainian side to halt the advance of our armed forces".
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AP
Jihadist insurgents attack a Nigerian military base in Mandaragirau, Borno State, Nigeria, killing five soldiers.
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AP
June 4
Sports
In tennis, Maja Chwalińska becomes the second qualifier to reach a major final, and the first at the French Open, after defeating Diana Shnaider in the women's singles semifinals. Ranked No. 114, she is also the lowest-ranked finalist at the tournament.
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India Today
Law and crime
The office of Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes says that it will seek new indictments against fake electors involved in attempting to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the state following a denial of an appeal by Mayes that would require prosecutors to send the case back to the grand jury.
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The Hill
International relations
China imposes travel bans on New Zealand MPs Ingrid Leary, Laura McClure, Simon O'Connor, and Duncan Webb following a visit to Taiwan, prompting New Zealand's foreign ministry to reaffirm the country's One China policy.
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AFP via UCA News
Business and economy
The Indonesian rupiah falls to its lowest recorded level against the United States dollar, reaching Rp 18,028 per $1 amid rising energy costs and increased demand for foreign currency despite central bank intervention.
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AFP via France 24
Disasters and accidents
Authorities in Niger confirm that at least 49 people died of dehydration in an isolated part of the Sahara desert near the country's borders with Algeria and Mali, after their truck broke down while returning from Mali and stranded for several days. Only two survive after trekking to Assamakka, Agadez Region.
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The Brussels Times
Seven people are killed in an unauthorized coal mine blast in Sutatausa, Colombia after a buildup of methane gas inside the shaft.
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in Spanish
At least four people are killed and over 13 others are injured in a fire at a private hospital in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India.
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NDTV
Four industrial workers were killed and 11 others were injured of various degrees when an explosion ripped through a shipyard along the Canal del Dique in Pasacaballos, Cartagena, Colombia.
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in Spanish
Politics and elections
A court in Bogotá, Colombia, orders presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella to stop using Colombia's national football jersey as a campaign symbol following a legal challenge filed during the country's presidential runoff campaign.
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AFP via RFI
Armed conflicts and attacks
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Esmail Qaani says that the ceasefire between Iran and the United States depends on the ceasefire in Lebanon, and that there will be "no peace in the region" until Israel fully withdraws beyond the internationally recognized border of Lebanon.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations2026 Iran war ceasefire
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NPR
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Euronews
Secretary-General of Hezbollah Naim Qassem rejects a ceasefire without an Israeli withdrawal, saying that Hezbollah will fight as long as the occupation and attacks continue, and refuses disarmament.
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Al Jazeera
French president Emmanuel Macron says that France and the U.S. plan to establish a ceasefire coordination mechanism, and calls on Hezbollah to give up its weapons to the Lebanese military.
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Al Jazeera
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AP
An Israeli armored corps officer is killed in southern Lebanon.
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AP
The Israeli military says that the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy have conducted strikes in the Gaza Strip killing four Hamas officials and nine Palestinian civilians, in violation of the current ceasefire.
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Times of Israel
As clashes in Mogadishu that started yesterday continue, former prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire accuses president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of ordering a targeted military assault to eliminate opposition, while defence minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi accuses both former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Khaire of orchestrating a coup attempt to destabilise Somalia.
Somali Civil War (2009–present)Constitutional crisis in SomaliaControversies of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
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The New York Times
The Fourth Infantry Division of the Sudanese Armed Forces says that the army has repelled a major attack by the Rapid Support Forces and SPLM-N on the town of Al-Barka in the Blue Nile region in Sudan.
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Sudan Tribune
Around 350 people have been killed in South Darfur during clashes between the Beni Halba and Salamat tribes over the past five days.
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EFE
Science and technology
North Korea unveils a new facility plant that would produce nuclear weapon fuel.
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AP
June 3
Arts and culture
German filmmaker Wim Wenders withdraws his 1975 film from distribution after actress Nastassja Kinski objected to a nude scene filmed when she was 13 years old, calling for the film to be re-edited.
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AP
International relations
Kuwait expels two Iranian diplomats, declaring them , and summons Iran's acting chargé d'affaires to hand him a protest note over the recent attacks.
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AA
Disasters and accidents
Three people are killed when a Royal Navy AgustaWestland AW101 crashes into a field in Sourton, Devon, England.
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ASN
Local authorities report that more than 60 people are missing after a boat sank on the Aruwimi River the previous day in the Banalia Territory, Tshopo Province, DRC.
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in French
Law and crime
Ecuadorian police discover the bodies of eight individuals missing since Sunday in plastic bags near Babahoyo, Los Ríos Province.
Source:
AFP via CBS News
The Belfast Crown Court in Northern Ireland sentences Stephen McCullagh to 31 years' imprisonment for the murder of his pregnant partner, Natalie McNally, after investigators determine that a gaming livestream presented as an alibi was pre-recorded before the killing.
Source:
The Manila Times
Health and environment
The DRC's public health ministry reports that 344 cases of the Ebola virus have been confirmed across three provinces.
Source:
Financial Times
The U.S. state of Arizona reports its first death of the Sin Nombre strain of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Source:
Forbes
Agricultural minister John Steenhuisen announces that South Africa has approved vaccines for bird flu.
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SA News
Business and economy
India approves a ₹96 billion (US$1 billion) support package for airlines through interest-free advances to oil companies to help stabilize aviation fuel prices amid rising costs linked to disruptions in global oil supplies.
Source:
The Manila Times
Kuwait Airways resumes flights from Kuwait International Airport after the latest Iranian attack.
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Reuters
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Bahraini defense force intercepts three Iranian missiles and multiple drones that it says were targeting "civilian" facilities.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries2026 Iranian strikes on Bahrain
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AA
The Kuwaiti defense ministry says that the military shot down 13 ballistic missiles and 17 drones from Iran, during attacks that killed one person and injured 63 at Kuwait International Airport.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countriesKuwait in the 2026 Iran war
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Reuters
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that "no tangible progress" has been made in the peace talks, though Iran is still in contact with the United States to prevent an attack on Beirut, Lebanon, which would cause "full-scale resumption" of war.
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France 24
Amidst a continuation of strikes, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing reaffirms that Operation Epic Fury, the codename for the initial phase of U.S. military operations during the war, has concluded.
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AFP via France 24
Israeli strikes kill at least nine people, including two paramedics, in southern Lebanon, violating the ongoing ceasefire.
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BBC News
Following a fourth round of peace talks, the governments of Israel and Lebanon reach an agreement to renew the ceasefire if Hezbollah ceases its attacks and both countries will implement pilot zones in security zones across Lebanon where Hezbollah militants would be banned.
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Times of Israel
Allied Democratic Forces fighters kill 16 civilians in a village in the Beni Territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Reuters
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Ukrainian drones have struck an oil terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, amidst the economic forum scheduled to be held in the city and military facilities at a naval base in Kronstadt.
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Kyiv Post
Heavy fights erupt with several casualties reported across major routes in Mogadishu after opposition Somali Future Council was attacked by forces loyal to disputed president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, ahead of planned anti-government protests.
Somali Civil War (2009–present)Constitutional crisis in SomaliaControversies of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
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Al Jazeera
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Medafrica Times
Politics and elections
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 215–208 to pass a resolution to limit war powers and halt military operations in Iran following previous failed attempts.
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PBS
Philippine senators end a gridlock after a quorum allows the election of senator Sherwin Gatchalian as Senate president pro tempore, while senators also reorganize committee leadership.
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Reuters