US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility
Meanwhile shipping company Maersk said one of its US-flagged commercial vessels had successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US military protection.
The looks turning heads on the Met Gala carpet
The theme for 2026 Met Gala fundraiser is "Costume Art", exploring fashion as an embodied art form.
At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship – Forbes
- At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Forbes
- 3 Dead in Hantavirus Outbreak Aboard Cruise Ship, W.H.O. Says The New York Times
- What to know about hantavirus after 3 died in suspected cruise ship outbreak The Washington Post
- Exclusive | Inside the deadly hantavirus-infected cruise ship, MV Hondius, where 3 passengers have died New York Post
- Evacuations planned as suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on ship off Cape Verde Reuters
Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd in German city of Leipzig
A 33-year-old German citizen was detained following the incident, the authorities say.
UAE reports missile and drone strikes incoming from Iran – Al Jazeera
- UAE reports missile and drone strikes incoming from Iran Al Jazeera
- Iran War Takes a Dangerous Turn as Fighting Erupts in Hormuz WSJ
- Despite rift, MBS calls Emirati counterpart to condemn Iranian strikes on UAE The Times of Israel
- Global oil prices top $114 and settle at 4-year high after Iranian attacks on U.A.E. revive worries of further supply disruptions MarketWatch
- Iran ceasefire in peril as UAE says it's under attack Axios
Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney – The Guardian
- Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney The Guardian
- Mark Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump The New York Times
- European leaders converge on Armenia as Russia looks on BBC
- European and Canadian leaders hold security talks in Yerevan amid uncertainty over US policy France 24
- European Leaders Meet as Trump Adds More Threats: What to Watch Bloomberg.com
Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations
Russia has declared a unilateral ceasefire to cover the event and threatened a massive strike on central Kyiv if it were disrupted.
Leipzig: 2 killed after car drives into crowd – DW.com
- Leipzig: 2 killed after car drives into crowd DW.com
- Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd in German city of Leipzig BBC
- A look at vehicle-ramming cases worldwide in recent history Yahoo
- Two dead after car strikes crowd in German city, police say CNN
- 2 Dead After Driver Plows Into Crowd in ‘Rampage’ in Germany The New York Times
Assimi Goïta: Mali junta leader names himself defence minister after predecessor killed – BBC
- Assimi Goïta: Mali junta leader names himself defence minister after predecessor killed BBC
- Mali leader Goita assumes role of defence minister after attacks, state media says Reuters
- Mali’s junta leader takes over defense ministry after the minister was killed in militant attacks AP News
- Curfews, conspiracy theories … and a cancelled concert: Mali’s capital tries to shrug off violence on its doorstep The Guardian
- Mali leader Goita takes defence post after minister killed Al Jazeera
Mali junta leader names himself defence minister after predecessor killed
Former Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in a massive offensive by combined jihadist and separatist forces.
Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran’s strait of Hormuz blockade
US operation announced as ‘Project Freedom’ dramatically raises stakes in conflict
The US has launched Donald Trump’s bid to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade.
The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as “Project Freedom” by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.
Continue reading...Driver injured after truck was struck by United plane landing at Newark airport
Delivery truck driver emerged with minor injuries after underside of jet hit tractor trailer in New Jersey on Sunday
The driver of a delivery truck emerged with only minor injuries after his tractor trailer was struck by a passenger jet landing in New Jersey’s busy Newark airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said.
New Jersey state police said a landing tire and the underside of a United Airlines plane arriving from Venice, Italy, hit the truck in question. The Boeing 767 aircraft also clipped a light pole, which in turn struck a Jeep.
Continue reading...Spain seizes record amount of cocaine in Atlantic Ocean, authorities say
The Civil Guard found between 30,000 and 45,000kg of the drug on a freighter headed to Libya.
Several New York City synagogues and homes vandalized with swastikas
Police are searching for at least four individuals responsible for ‘terrifying signals of hatred and threats of violence’
Several synagogues and homes in the New York borough of Queens were vandalized overnight Monday with swastikas, according to the city council speaker.
On Monday, Julie Menin, along with other city council members including Lynn Schulman and Phil Wong, visited Congregation Machane Chodosh, one of the sites targeted in Forest Hills.
Continue reading...NASA Satellite Reveals Just How Fast Mexico City Is Sinking – ScienceAlert
- NASA Satellite Reveals Just How Fast Mexico City Is Sinking ScienceAlert
- US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence NASA Science (.gov)
- Mexico City Is Sinking So Fast It Can Now Be Watched In Real-Time From Space IFLScience
- Mexico City has been sinking for over a century. A new NASA satellite is now watching it happen in real time ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Mexico City Sinking Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected office won by Democratic exoneree
Future of Calvin Duncan’s position as the clerk of New Orleans’ criminal district courthouse remains unclear
Louisiana Republicans eliminated an elected position days before a Democratic exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based post was set to take office on Monday.
A temporary restraining order did allow the exoneree, Calvin Duncan, to take office as scheduled on Monday morning as the clerk of New Orleans’ criminal district courthouse. But things soon turned administratively messy for Duncan when that order was frozen by the US fifth circuit court of appeals.
Continue reading...Two killed and several hurt after car ploughs into crowds in German city of Leipzig
A suspect has been apprehended, but detectives say little is known about their motivation at this stage
At least two people have been killed and several injured after a driver in an SUV ploughed into a crowd in the centre of Leipzig in eastern Germany, the city’s mayor has said.
“The police have apprehended the suspected assailant,” Burkhard Jung said on Monday, adding that the authorities had the scene in a pedestrian zone under control. “We still don’t really know the motivation. We don’t know anything about the perpetrator.”
Continue reading...Narendra Modi’s BJP wins election in West Bengal for the first time
Result in key Indian state is set to have significant implications for the country’s political landscape
Narendra Modi’s party has won a resounding election victory in West Bengal, a state which had been a rare opposition stronghold, expanding his unrivalled consolidation of power across the country.
It is the first time that the Indian prime minister’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has won assembly elections in West Bengal, a large and politically significant state in eastern India.
Continue reading...Israeli attacks kill dozens within days in Lebanon despite ceasefire – BBC
- Israeli attacks kill dozens within days in Lebanon despite ceasefire BBC
- How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza The New York Times
- IDF raids Hezbollah rocket launching site in Lebanon, captures weapons cache The Times of Israel
- Israeli airstrikes kill 7 in southern Lebanon as a Catholic convent is bulldozed AP News
- Israel issues new forced displacement orders in southern Lebanon Al Jazeera
Scramble to evacuate two people from cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak
Cape Verde blocks MV Hondius from docking in order ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengers
Medics are scrambling to evacuate two people from a luxury cruise ship stranded off the coast of Cape Verde, after a suspected outbreak of a rare respiratory virus killed three people, left three others seriously ill and forced nearly 150 people from across the world to isolate onboard.
The plight of the MV Hondius, which set off in March from southern Argentina carrying 149 people from 23 countries, emerged late on Sunday after the World Health Organization said it was investigating a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents.
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