Right-wing Fujimori holds narrow lead one week before Peru presidential runoff, polls show – Reuters

  1. Right-wing Fujimori holds narrow lead one week before Peru presidential runoff, polls show  Reuters
  2. Peru’s Fujimori Holds Narrow Lead Over Sánchez Ahead of Runoff  Bloomberg.com
  3. Peru's Presidential Candidates Clash On Crime, 'Political Mafia'  Barron's
  4. Peru Election  Bluefield Daily Telegraph
  5. Peru votes in tight runoff as Fujimori makes fresh bid for power  RFI
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Beyond Frontlines: 3rd Army Corps Asserts Drone Control Over Occupied Luhansk Logistics – Kyiv Post

  1. Beyond Frontlines: 3rd Army Corps Asserts Drone Control Over Occupied Luhansk Logistics  Kyiv Post
  2. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 31, 2026  Institute for the Study of War
  3. Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops  BBC
  4. Highway to Hell: Ukraine's Logistics Lockdown, Taiwan’s Littoral Command and China’s Evolving Nuclear Capability. The Big Five, 31 May edition.  Futura Doctrina | Mick Ryan
  5. Ukraine hammers Russia’s land corridor to Crimea  politico.eu
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Death of Congolese man renews scrutiny of race relations in Ireland

Yves Sakila died after being restrained by security guards ‘in broad daylight’

Irish authorities have agreed to a second postmortem on the body of a Congolese man who died after being restrained by shop security guards on a Dublin street, prompting an outcry and comparisons to the death of George Floyd.

A forensic pathologist from England is to conduct an independent postmortem this week on Yves Sakila, 35, an alleged shoplifter who was pursued and pinned to the ground in the city centre on 15 May. The police force, An Garda Síochána, is investigating.

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Lukashenko says Belarus has ‘major’ target in Ukraine in its sights – The Kyiv Independent

  1. Lukashenko says Belarus has 'major' target in Ukraine in its sights  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 26, 2026  Institute for the Study of War
  3. Lukashenko responds to remarks of Ukraine's drone commander about 500 targets in Belarus: we have one target  Українська правда
  4. Latushka on Ukraine's 500 targets in Belarus: "First target is Lukashenka himself"  belsat.eu
  5. Ukraine war: Kremlin vows response to French seizure of tanker  MSN
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Malta’s prime minister declares historic victory in snap election – politico.eu

  1. Malta’s prime minister declares historic victory in snap election  politico.eu
  2. Malta's Labour Party wins record fourth term in parliamentary election  Reuters
  3. Voting ongoing in snap elections in Malta, governing party expected to win  Al Jazeera
  4. Maltese cast ballots as Labour government seeks fourth term in snap election  Euronews
  5. WATCH: Big celebrations in the streets after the election result was announced  TVMnews.mt
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Jewish group to sue over bathhouse ban after ‘Zionist quiz’ for visitors – The Jewish Chronicle

  1. Jewish group to sue over bathhouse ban after ‘Zionist quiz’ for visitors  The Jewish Chronicle
  2. 'Wear the Star of David without fear' say Barcelona Jews after antisemitic sauna incident  ynetnews
  3. Jewish woman wearing Star of David pendant forced out of Spanish sauna  The Telegraph
  4. Barcelona spa apologizes for exclusion of Jews  JNS.org
  5. Two Jewish women denied entry to Barcelona sauna over Star of David necklaces  The Times of Israel
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Could Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?

The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world

In a 1965 speech justifying the war in Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson argued that the goal was to ensure “every country can shape its own destiny” since only in such a world could the US secure its own freedom. However, he also admitted “such were infirmities of man that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace”.

It was the kind of elegant justification of the country’s moral mission to which successive US presidential speechwriters have turned at times of war.

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Colombia goes to polls in election pitting outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates

Ballots are being cast in the first round of the South American nation’s presidential elections

Colombians are casting ballots in the first round of the South American nation’s presidential election, choosing between candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict.

The vote on Sunday, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

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Scotland’s former leader rejects blame for estranged husband’s embezzlement of party funds – AP News

  1. Scotland’s former leader rejects blame for estranged husband’s embezzlement of party funds  AP News
  2. Nicola’s only crime was to love too much. And to not notice the Jaguar on the drive | John Crace  The Guardian
  3. Tackling rise in number of young people not in work or education is 'national cause', minister says  BBC
  4. The very British banality of the SNP’s shopping scandal  Financial Times
  5. The cosy SNP culture behind Peter Murrell’s ‘30 years of theft’  The Times
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