- Police fire shots in air to disperse angry crowds at DR Congo Ebola treatment centre BBC
- Protesters attack DRC treatment center as the WHO warns violence is threatening Ebola efforts CNN
- Eighteen suspected Ebola patients escape after treatment tent is set on fire for a second time in Congo PBS
- Ebola patients flee in attacks on DR Congo health facilities, hobbling response NBC News
- Healthcare workers facing 2 dangers: Ebola outbreak and the physical attacks they spark OregonLive.com
Could Israel sabotage US-Iran deal?
As the US and Iran move closer to a peace deal, Israel vows to keep striking what it calls regional and nuclear threats.
Iran says deal with US ‘not imminent’ despite progress
Iran’s FM spokesman Baghaei says a ‘large portion’ of issues with the US have been resolved, but a deal is not imminent.
‘I’m going to get his ass’: YouTuber beats all-time cheese-rolling champion
Tom Kopke, from Germany, out-tumbled local hero Chris Anderson to win his third roll on hot day in Gloucestershire
It was billed as the great cheese-off; a helter-skelter, bone-jarring downhill race between the all-time champ and a young upstart.
After the hype and hyperbole, youth won out, as the 24-year-old German YouTuber Tom Kopke beat 38-year-old local hero Chris Anderson at the annual cheese-rolling event in the English West Country.
Continue reading...Cambodia’s former opposition leader receives royal pardon for 27-year sentence
Kem Sokha was serving a 27-year sentence on treason charges, which were widely derided as politically motivated.
Cambodia’s former opposition leader receives royal pardon for 27-year sentence
Kem Sokha was serving a 27-year sentence on treason charges, which were widely derided as politically motivated.
U.S. and Iran work toward deal to extend ceasefire and reopen Strait of Hormuz – The Washington Post
- U.S. and Iran work toward deal to extend ceasefire and reopen Strait of Hormuz The Washington Post
- What’s in the proposed deal that could end the US-Iran conflict? CNN
- The world urgently needs a US-Iran deal now Al Jazeera
- Exclusive: What's inside the Iran deal Trump is close to signing Axios
- Iran war: No deal close despite some progress — Tehran DW.com
Iran denies deal with US is imminent despite some progress
Tehran says ‘contradictory statements’ from US and Israeli interference hindering negotiations
Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure.
Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s negotiating team, also said future management of the strait of Hormuz was a matter for Oman and Iran to reach agreement on, and that it was not tolls that were being proposed but “fees for navigational services”.
Continue reading...Oil prices fall below $100 a barrel on hopes of Iran peace deal
Brent crude futures down 6% to lowest level in two weeks and stock markets rise
Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel on Monday and stock markets rose on hopes that the US and Iran are inching closer to a peace deal.
Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, were down 6% to $97.43 a barrel, the lowest level in two weeks, with hopes that an agreement to end the near three-month US-Israeli war on Iran can be struck.
Continue reading...UK records its hottest ever day in May as temperature hits 34.8C
Scientists say record-breaking heat is a reminder of how climate crisis is affecting lives
The fierce heat sweeping across Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with scorching highs of close to 35C.
A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow airport on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Office, beating the previous May record that was set in 1922 and reached again in 1944. Later in the afternoon a temperature of 34.8C was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens.
Continue reading...Trump Tower in Georgia to be built on land part-owned by son of US sanctions-hit leader
Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns
A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.
The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organization, which is managed by the US president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, will be on a plot whose current registered owner is the International Charity Fund Cartu.
Continue reading...Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories in divided US
Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say
Hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks carry with them familiar attendants in the US: extreme conspiracy theories about a planned pandemic, or “plandemic”, designed to upend midterm elections or push new vaccines or any one of a myriad of wild ideas.
Ebola, which the World Health Organization warned on Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, poses a “very high” risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources.
Continue reading...Three killed in Uganda after crashing into elephant
Four people were also injured in the incident inside Murchison Falls National Park, officials say.
Three killed in Uganda after crashing into elephant
Four people were also injured in the incident inside Murchison Falls National Park, officials say.
Trump blasts critics as UK readies Hormuz mine-clearing mission amid Iran deal talks – Fox News
- Trump blasts critics as UK readies Hormuz mine-clearing mission amid Iran deal talks Fox News
- Live updates: Iran war news; US targets Iranian missile launch sites and boats in ‘self-defense’ strikes CNN
- Iran War Live Updates: Top Iranian Negotiators Arrive in Qatar for Talks on Peace Deal The New York Times
- Iran's top envoys discussing potential peace deal with Qatar prime minister, official says Reuters
- Iranian delegation in Qatar as talks on US ceasefire extend Al Jazeera
Oil Slides as Ships Move Toward Hormuz – WSJ
- Oil Slides as Ships Move Toward Hormuz WSJ
- Oil and LNG tankers exit Hormuz, heading for Pakistan and China Reuters
- Supertanker With Iraq Crude Exits Persian Gulf as Talks Continue Bloomberg.com
- Chinese supertankers exit Hormuz as Trump and Vance talk up Iran deal Al Jazeera
- More Tankers Make It Through the Strait of Hormuz Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
Clashes as Venezuelan prisoners protest over alleged mistreatment
The prisoners insisted their protest was peaceful but that security forces deployed to quell it opened fire.
Senegal’s leadership row mounts as parliament speaker resigns
Some speculate that El Malick Ndiaye stepped down so that ousted-PM Ousmane Sonko can take his place.
At least 19 people taken to hospital after ‘strong smell’ reported at Tokyo mall
Police say a man sprayed a substance at an ATM in the luxury Ginza 6 shopping centre.
At least 19 people taken to hospital after ‘strong smell’ reported at Tokyo mall – BBC
- At least 19 people taken to hospital after 'strong smell' reported at Tokyo mall BBC
- About 20 people injured after man sprays unknown substance near ATM in Tokyo mall The Guardian
- Over 20 taken to hospital after unknown substance allegedly sprayed in Tokyo shopping area AP News
- Around 20 people injured after spraying incident at Tokyo mall ATM, police say Euronews.com
- Suspected spray attack in Tokyo shopping complex leaves more than 20 ill | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News nhk.or.jp