The U.S. and Iran reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend their ceasefire by 60 days,as U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran to accept a deal or face further military action,and Washington launched new strikes on Tehran, calling them acts of "self-defense,"while Iran struck a U.S. base in Kuwait, which it said was used to strike down five of its drones and a ground control station.In related developments, U.S. intelligence suggested that Iran’s supreme leader is operating from a secret location, with even senior Iranian officials reportedly unaware of his whereabouts, SpaceX allegedly pressured the Pentagon to increase payments for its Starlink services used to guide kamikaze drones over Iran,and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “crush” Hezbollahas Israel launched more than 120 airstrikes on Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest single-day bombardments in recent weeks.Meanwhile, Israel seized an ancient Lebanese fortress, Hamas confirmed its new military chief was killed in an Israeli strike, the fourth such killing of a Hamas military leader since October 2023, Netanyahu ordered Israeli forces to secure control of 70% of Gaza, up from the 53% held under the terms of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire,and the U.N. blacklisted Israel over alleged conflict-related sexual violence.In other news, a group of women and children linked to the Islamic State was repatriated to Australia from Syria in the second such return this month, a U.K. inquiry accused Special Air Service leaders of concealing concerns about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, intensifying scrutiny of its military conduct,and the United Arab Emirates was accused of routing Colombian mercenaries into Sudan amid renewed allegations of foreign involvement in the conflict.Elsewhere, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named a special forces unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army — a group widely recognized as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II —while a former leader of the paramilitary group's founding organization was reburied in Kyiv after his remains were exhumed from a Luxembourg cemetery,and NATO accused Russia of crashing a drone into an apartment building in Romania, heightening regional security concerns,while Washington reprimanded Moscow at the U.N. Security Council over recent strikes on Ukraine.This comes as the U.K. and Poland signed the Northolt Defense Treaty, strengthening their bilateral security cooperation, Canada moved to purchase Saab's GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft, choosing the Swedish firm over America's Boeing,and North Korea reportedly tested AI-guided missiles, marking another advancement in its military technology capabilities.

Brazilian presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro met with Trump in a private meeting at the Oval Office, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue convened its 11th Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi, where it announced several new cooperation agreements,and Beijing and Islamabad deepened their partnership through a new China-Pakistan Economic Corridor agreement.Meanwhile, guerrilla violence erupted in Colombia on the eve of the presidential election, Venezuela's opposition leaders committed to engaging in negotiations with the interim government, signaling a renewed push for political dialogue, Mexico’s Congress passed a constitutional amendment making foreign interference grounds for annulling elections,and Senegal's Ousmane Sonko was elected speaker of parliament just days after his dismissal as prime minister.In other news, Hungary's parliament voted to reverse the country's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, moving closer to restoring its participation in the tribunal, the EU released 16.4 billion in previously frozen funds to Hungary following talks between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Péter Magyar, Russia accused the U.S. of denying a visa to one of its diplomats ahead of a U.N. meeting in New York,and former Scottish National Party chief executive Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000 ($539,627) in a financial misconduct case.This comes as former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair accused the Labour government of lacking a "coherent plan," calling for a "fundamental reset,"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa challenged a report that concluded he may have committed misconduct tied to the "Farmgate" scandal,as the country's parliament prepared to launch an impeachment probe against him,and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned against Alberta’s proposed independence referendum, likening it to the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit vote.Elsewhere, a report revealed that the Trump administration deported 13,000 migrants to Mexico between January 2025 and March 2026 as part of its immigration enforcement strategy, Trump created 10,000 new refugee slots for White South Africans under a new resettlement initiative,and Ghana repatriated hundreds of its citizens from South Africa amid ongoing anti-migrant unrest in the country.

A judge declined to block Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, allowing the policy to remain in effect while legal challenges continue,California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law shielding the state's ballots from federal oversight, strengthening state control over election administration, a Utah audit uncovered 27 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, prompting renewed debate over election security,and Gov. Josh Green passed a bill to ban corporate spending in elections, making Hawaii the first state to enact such a measure.This comes as Ken Paxton defeated John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary, Louisiana lawmakers approved a new electoral map that reduces the state to a single majority-Black district, a court blocked Alabama’s proposed electoral map, forcing the state to revisit its redistricting plans,and the South Carolina Senate halted a Republican-backed redistricting effort before the state's June 9 primary.In other news, a judge paused Trump’s anti-weaponization fund, temporarily halting the initiative pending further review,New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched a government efficiency reform commission aimed at streamlining city operations,and former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before a House committee, admitting to “redaction errors” in files related to Jeffrey Epstein.Elsewhere, the Justice Department (DOJ) opened a criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll to determine whether she committed perjury in her testimony against Trump, dozens of former judges called for an investigation into Trump’s $1.8 billion IRS settlement, raising questions about the agreement’s handling, a judge ordered the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, finding the board lacked authority to rename it,and the Supreme Court rejected Florida’s lawsuit against California and Washington over their commercial driver’s license policies, declining to hear the interstate dispute.Meanwhile, Jill Biden said she feared that Joe Biden had suffered a stroke during the 2024 presidential debate,while Joe Biden sued the DOJ to block the release of audio recordings connected to his memoir "Promise Me, Dad,"and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expressed uncertainty about a 2028 presidential campaign, leaving her future political plans ambiguous.

O'Keefe Media Group released undercover footage appearing to depict a Washington Nationals official admitting to sidelining one of its baseball pitchers because of his Catholic faith, Apple and Google urged Canada to revise a proposed surveillance bill, citing privacy and data security concerns,and Ottawa dropped a provision that would have allowed Canadians to file anonymous complaints about online hate speech.Meanwhile, Hungarian police approved Budapest's upcoming Pride Parade, reversing the previous stance under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,and Iran ended its 88-day internet blackout in what was described as the longest nationwide shutdown in modern history.

A Google engineer was charged with using confidential company data in a $1.2M Polymarket insider bet, the sentences of three U.K. teenage boys convicted of rape were referred to the Court of Appeal over concerns the punishments were too lenient,and a school assistant went on trial in France as authorities arrested over a dozen people on child abuse charges and probed over 100 schools.Meanwhile, a suspect was arrested in connection with a knife attack at a Swiss train station that authorities classified as a "terrorist act," a man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for plotting to attack Taylor Swift's 2024 Eras Tour concert in Vienna,and Matthew Perry’s former assistant was sentenced to 41 months in prison over his ketamine death.

Oil giant BP ousted chairman Albert Manifold just eight months into his tenure, Anthropic secured $65 billion in new funding, boosting its valuation to $965 billion and overtaking rival OpenAI, Trump refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal after his initial complaint was dismissed,and Samsung’s union approved a bonus agreement, resolving a key labor dispute and averting an 18-day strike.Meanwhile, the EU reportedly prepared a record penalty against Google for allegedly breaching the Digital Markets Act,while it fined Temu 200 million for selling unsafe products, Ferrari entered the EV market with a $640,000 electric supercar,and Tim Hortons announced plans to hire 10,000 Canadians, shifting its workforce strategy toward domestic recruitment.

A new review warned that youth unemployment in the U.K. could reach 1.25 million by 2031, impacting one in six people aged 16 to 24, Brazil’s Senate considered proposals to reform the national workweek amid debate over labor and productivity,and Japan’s population dropped 2.5% to 123.05 million, marking its largest decline since recordkeeping began in 1920.

Trump completed a physical examination at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of what the White House described as a routine health assessment,and former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after her removal from the Justice Department.Meanwhile, Trump ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the childhood vaccine schedule after a Health and Human Services assessment recommended fewer jabs, the World Health Organization warned that Ebola is “outpacing” response efforts, as Uganda closed its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an effort to prevent the disease from spreading,and a Kenyan court blocked plans for a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility, citing legal and public health concerns.In other news, a study found that mental disorders had doubled globally since 1990, with 1.2 billion people affected in 2023, a new genomic testing showed promise in helping some breast cancer patients avoid chemotherapy,and a new drug showed potential as a cure for chronic Hepatitis B, offering hope for a breakthrough in treatment.

The U.N. predicted there's a 75% chance that the Earth would exceed the 1.5°C climate threshold by 2030, underscoring growing concerns about climate change,and the U.K. recorded its hottest May ever as record-breaking temperatures extended across Western Europe.Meanwhile, a study linked climate change to a 10% increase in antibiotic resistance across the world,and Brazil’s deforestation rate fell to a record low of 985,000 hectares in 2025, marking a 20.6% drop from the year before.

The OpenAI Foundation pledged $250 million to help workers adapt to AI-driven job disruption, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, calling for stronger regulation of AI,and the world’s three leading memory chip manufacturers all surpassed $1 trillion valuations, reflecting booming demand for AI-related hardware.Meanwhile, the U.K. began testing AI-powered facial scans to estimate the ages of asylum seekers,and Thai police said an image showing officers dressed in drag was generated by AI, dismissing the viral picture as a fake.This comes as Spotify CEO Alex Norström defended the company’s approach to AI following its agreement with Universal Music Group to allow subscribers to create AI-generated covers and remixes,and a YouTuber in Seoul was arrested for allegedly using AI deepfakes to defame a celebrity.

NASA announced three new uncrewed lunar missions as part of a broader plan to establish a permanent base on the moon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a black hole that formed before its host galaxy, challenging existing theories of cosmic evolution,and Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a test firing, dealing a setback to the company’s launch program.

Iran’s World Cup training base was moved to Mexico after the U.S. declined to host the team,and New York and New Jersey issued subpoenas to FIFA over the governing body's ticketing practices for the 2026 World Cup.

A chemical tank at a paper plant in Washington state ruptured, killing 11 people and prompting investigations into industrial safety practices, 16 students were killed in a school fire in Kenya,and a collision between a school bus and train left four people dead in Belgium.