Biggest drone strike hits Ukraine's second city
Russian has launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city, the mayor of Kharkiv has said, killing at least three and injuring a further 21.
Ihor Terekhov said that overnight Russia launched 48 drones, two missiles and four gliding bombs in an attack he described as "open terror".
It comes after a massive wave of drones and missiles struck across Ukraine on Thursday night. Moscow said the strikes were in response to "terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime", following Ukraine's surprise raids on Russian air bases last Sunday.
Germany plans rapid bunker expansion amid fears of Russian attack
Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.
Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict, and that in its current state Germany was inadequately prepared.
Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali, Africa Corps will stay
The Russia-backed Wagner Group of mercenaries on Friday said that it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamist insurgents in the country.
Despite the announcement by Wagner, Russia will continue to have its presence in Mali as the Africa Corps, a paramilitary force also controlled by Russia, will continue to stay in the country.
Investigation: The Israeli army has ordered people to evacuate 78% of the Gaza Strip since March
"Of course I’m not safe here, but I’m being forced to remain,” Mohammad said to our team on May 22. Like tens of thousands of other people living in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Mohammed had three days earlier received an order from the Israeli Army to evacuate. They said his neighbourhood, Abasan al-Kabira, is “dangerous”.
"Some chose to stay, like me, but the majority left or were displaced, fearing for their lives,” he said. Mohammad didn’t want to leave, afraid that his 17-year-old autistic son, who “has become very agitated since the start of the war”, wouldn’t be able to cope with the displacement.
"If I am staying home despite the evacuation orders, it is because life in the areas that are supposedly ‘safe’ is much more difficult than what we are experiencing currently and actually is more than we could endure,” he said.
Japan-U.S. tariff talks still draw a blank at fifth meeting
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 7, 2025 at 17:46 JST
Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high tariff policy, according to Japan’s top negotiator Ryosei Akazawa.
“We confirmed once again the position of Japan and the U.S., and further progress was made in discussions toward the realization of an agreement,” said Akazawa, minister in charge of economic revitalization, after meeting with U.S. Cabinet members here on June 6.
“But we have not found any point of agreement.”
Syria confirms closure of civil war-era desert camp, displaced return home
The notorious Rukban displacement camp in the Syrian desert, a dark emblem of the country’s civil war, has closed, with the last remaining families returning to their hometowns.
Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa said on Saturday on X that with the dismantlement of the camp, “a tragic and sorrowful chapter of displacement stories created by the bygone regime’s war machine comes to a close”.
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