A Russian drone smashed into an apartment building in Romania, a NATO member, injuring two people in a city close to the Ukrainian border, the country’s defence ministry said. "During the night of 28 – 29 May, the Russian Federation resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania," the Romanian defence ministry said. "One of these drones entered Romanian airspace, was tracked by radar as far as the southern part of the city of Galati, and crashed onto the roof of an…

Italian authorities have seized assets and businesses worth more than €200 million as they tighten the net around money allegedly laundered from drug trafficking tied to a notorious mafia boss. Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested in 2023 after three decades as a fugitive, had long been one of the defining figures of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra’s violent campaign against the Italian state in the 1980s and 1990s, a period that included the murder of prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. Known as “U Siccu,” or “the skinny one,” Messina Denaro…

Morning commuters at a busy Swiss train station were thrown into chaos after a knife attack that left three people wounded, in what a regional security official described as a "terrorist act." "I am exceptionally calling this a terrorist attack," Mario Fehr, who oversees security in the Swiss canton of Zurich, told reporters, saying it was "clear from the scene that the motive for this act must be sought in the realm of radicalisation and extremism." Witnesses recounted fear and confusion as the suspect, identified by police…

Defying the already fragile terms of Gaza’s October ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has instructed the military to expand its hold over the enclave to 70% of the territory. "We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60% of the territory in the strip," he said at a conference in an occupied West Bank settlement, according to a video broadcast by Israel's Channel 12 network. He said Israeli forces had been holding 50% of Gaza under the ceasefire arrangements, before adding: "My directive is…

A fresh UN warning underscores how relentlessly the planet is heating up: global average temperatures are expected to stay at or near record highs this year and through the following four years. Every one of the 11 hottest years ever observed has occurred since 2015, and the UN’s weather and climate agency says that pattern is poised to persist, with another hottest-ever year considered "likely" before 2031. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said there is a 75% chance that the average temperature across the…

A widening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has drawn urgent promises of help from global and regional health leaders, with Africa CDC saying it intends to deliver a vaccine and treatment for the Bundibugyo strain before the year is out. "What we can tell you for sure, by the end of this year, 2026, Africa CDC will make sure that we have a vaccine and medicine against Bundibugyo," its Director-General Jean Kaseya said. At the same time, the head of the World Health Organization vowed to use "everything in…

Ebola’s latest surge in the Democratic Republic of Congo is proving deadly, but early figures suggest it has so far killed a smaller share of patients than many previous outbreaks, according to a World Health Organization update. Since officials declared the outbreak in the DRC in mid-May, the World Health Organization has logged more than 1,000 suspected and confirmed Ebola cases across the central African nation. Of those, 10 deaths have been confirmed as caused by Ebola, while another 223 are suspected to have been linked…

The man who served as Matthew Perry’s personal assistant — and who prosecutors said injected the actor with the ketamine dose that proved fatal — was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in federal prison, marking the end of the criminal case against five people who admitted roles in the Friends star’s death. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Garnett handed down the sentence to Kenneth Iwamasa, who discovered Perry unresponsive, floating face down in a hot tub at the actor’s Los Angeles home in October 2023. Prosecutors said Iwamasa…

With residents of Tyre waking to fresh evacuation orders, the Israeli military said it had launched a new wave of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure around the southern Lebanese city, opening another volatile chapter in a conflict that is again widening. A day earlier, Israel had designated all territory south of Lebanon's Zahrani River — an area about 40km from the border that includes Tyre — as "combat zones" and urged civilians to leave before attacks on the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement. The broad warning, the first of…

Australia has launched what it describes as a landmark AU$2 billion (€1.2 billion) lawsuit against US consumer products giant 3M, alleging contamination at military bases where firefighting foam containing so-called "forever chemicals" was used. The case against the Minnesota-based chemicals company and its Australian subsidiary is the biggest legal claim the country has ever filed, according to the government, underscoring the environmental, economic and cultural damage already caused — and the costs still expected to come.…