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Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang on trip to revitalise China-North Korea ties

Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea for a two-day trip, his first visit in nearly seven years. Footage published by Xinhua showed an Air China plane carrying Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, touching down at Pyongyang’s Sunan international airport. A red carpet and honour guards greeted the

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US navy sea drone rescues soldiers after Apache shot down

US Central Command said two US Army AH-64 Apache crew members were rescued after their helicopter went down while patrolling regional waters. The soldiers were recovered within roughly two hours and are in stable condition, and CENTCOM said the cause of the aircraft loss is under investigation. Navy Capt. Tim

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Florida shaken by 6.1-magnitude earthquake off coast of Cuba

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Cuba on Monday, the region's strongest tremor in nearly 150 years. The US Geological Survey placed the epicentre about 65 miles (105km) north-west of Mantua, Cuba, and said the quake had a depth of 16 miles. No injuries, deaths

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Alan Jackson says unpaid fees prompted his exit from Reiner murder case

Alan Jackson, Nick Reiner’s former attorney, says he quit the murder case because he was not paid the amount he had been promised. Jackson outlined his explanation in a declaration filed Monday with Reiner’s petition seeking access to a $1.5 million trust fund and said he would

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Man shot during protest over proposed US Ebola quarantine in Kenya

A man was shot in the head during a protest in central Kenya against a proposed Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens. Photographs from the scene showed a person lying motionless on the ground as dozens gathered near Laikipia airbase in Nanyuki, about 120 miles from Nairobi; some protesters wore

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Nick Reiner seeks $1.5M trust payout to cover legal costs

Nick Reiner filed a petition seeking access to a $1.5 million trust he says was to pay out half when he turned 30 in 2023 and the remainder at 35. He is pursuing the funds while facing murder charges in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.

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Two US pilots killed after plane bound to pick up former MLB star crashes

A pilot and co-pilot from the United States died in a fiery plane crash as they attempted an emergency landing near the southern coastal town of La Romana on Sunday. No passengers were onboard. The crash was captured on a cellphone video that was widely circulated on social media. The

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‘Extreme fear’ among immigrants as backlash sweeps South Africa

African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave reignited long-held xenophobic sentiment. March & March, a campaign group at the forefront of the protests, has given people living illegally in the country until 30 June to

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Ukraine laid anti-drone netting totaling about 510 miles this year

Ukraine has installed 822 kilometers, roughly 510 miles, of anti-drone protection on frontline roads this year, the defense ministry said. About 131 miles of that netting was laid in May alone, while the north–south length of Florida by road is roughly 447 miles from the Georgia border to Key

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Strong earthquake strikes southern Philippines with tsunami warnings issued

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook part of the southern Philippines at 7.37am, with the epicentre 13km south-west of General Santos City on Mindanao and an initial depth of 10km, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The US Geological Survey gave the same magnitude and a depth

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Typhoon Jangmi sweeps northwards leaving 23 injured in Japan

Typhoon Jangmi (Typhoon No 6) moved northwards this week, bringing prolonged heavy rain from Okinawa to mainland Japan. The downpours prompted landslide warnings and level 4 river alerts, a level that allows municipalities to issue evacuation orders. Three-hourly rainfall totals on Wednesday reached 105mm in Chiyoda, Tokyo, a monthly record.

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Jamaican police officer charged with murder after woman shot during protest

Authorities in Jamaica have charged a police officer with murder after he was accused of shooting a 45-year-old woman during a protest. Indecom said Constable Andrew Wilson appeared in court on Wednesday and was denied bail; another hearing is scheduled for mid-June. The killing of Latoya “Buju” Bulgin on 17

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Watersports, biking and island escapes: readers’ favourite family holidays

Lake Garda gave us one of the most memorable and unexpected family holidays yet. We hired a car and headed from Milan to Unesco-listed Peschiera del Garda and the family-focused apartment we found on Airbnb, a gentle 15-minute walk to the lakeside restaurants and gelaterias. Gelateria la Romana, the boat

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US adds sanctions on Cuban president and Castro family members

The United States has announced fresh economic sanctions on Cuba’s president and some of his immediate family, alongside members of the Castro family, in Washington’s latest ramping up of pressure on its communist-led neighbour. Among those targeted were the son and a grandson of former president Raúl Castro,

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Outrage in Argentina after two teen girls murdered as femicide crisis endures

Argentina reacted with fury after the bodies of two teenage girls were found just two days apart, a stark reminder of the country’s enduring femicide crisis and prompting alarm over cuts to support for victims under the far-right administration of Javier Milei. Police found the remains of Agostina Vega,

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Canada endorses embattled marine park’s plan to relocate 30 beluga whales

Canada and Marineland have reached a tentative deal to relocate 30 beluga whales, a move that would end whale captivity in Canada. The federal fisheries ministry said all of Marineland’s belugas would be shipped to either Spain or one of four locations in the US. Marineland, which effectively closed

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US Army trains to hide command posts in digital noise

Future warfare’s speed and chaos are pushing the US Army to rethink its field command posts. Those posts emit a high volume of transmissions that advanced adversaries can detect and target, and recent strikes in Ukraine on Russian command centers — which killed more than a dozen generals — have underscored

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UK: Russia's glide-bomb mishaps point to crew fatigue and poor training

The UK defense ministry says repeated friendly-fire incidents with Russian glide munitions reveal flaws in Moscow's airstrike campaign. An intelligence update cites open-source group Astra, which has posted footage of destruction on Russian soil and occupied Ukrainian territory. Astra reported that the Russian air force dropped at least

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One-ton cocaine bust reveals secret US-Mexico tunnel

Federal prosecutors have charged four suspects with trafficking more than one ton of cocaine for the Jalisco New Generation cartel, alleging they used a fake San Diego retail store as a front for a tunnel to Tijuana. The defendants include two Mexican nationals and two Americans, aged 18 to 32.

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Rescuers describe finding Matt Brown’s body in Okanogan River

Chay Wilkerson Moore said he quickly gathered a small team to search the Okanogan River for Matt Brown, including Brown’s girlfriend, Jaime, and his brother Noah Brown. They used whatever boats they could find — two kayaks from Walmart and a narrow fishing boat — and Moore said he felt too

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Ukraine’s Daily Moment of Silence

Every day at 9 a.m., Ukrainians observe a minute of silence to honor people killed during the Russia-Ukraine war. Our reporter, Maria Varenikova, who has covered the hostilities since 2014, takes us to her hometown to experience this moment. The brief pause serves as a regular act of remembrance

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Four more men freed from flooded Laos cave in hazardous rescue mission

Four more miners who were trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for 10 days have been freed by divers, but two people are still missing as rescuers continue to crawl through narrow, deluged tunnels and sharp rocks to find them. The first of the party of seven men was

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Typhoon Jangmi churns toward southern Japan

From late May into early June 2026, a broad, slow-spinning storm moved north-northwest over the Philippine Sea toward southern Japan. The VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite captured a nighttime image at about 16:40 Universal Time on May 30 (1:40 a.m. Japan Standard Time on May

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Aukus to build undersea drones to protect cables as Marles warns seabed is a battlefield

The US, UK and Australia announced a new Aukus project to develop underwater drone technology intended to protect undersea cables, and revealed Australia will buy three secondhand Virginia-class submarines from the US under Aukus, instead of a mix of old and new, in a move to "simplify supply chain

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Typhoon Jangmi threatens Japan as Europe swelters

Typhoon Jangmi is forecast to track near Okinawa, Japan, on Monday before moving towards the south-east of the country. It formed within the monsoonal gyre over the Philippine Sea. A monsoonal gyre is a large, slow-rotating weather system that spawns typhoons through smaller vortices formed within it; this flow can