The visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Havana opened a new political chapter inside and outside Cuba, with the U.S. issuing a set of demands.

An Israeli strike in Gaza city Friday targeted Hamas militant leader Izz-al-Din al-Haddad, Israel said. Neither side has confirmed his death.

Lebanon reportedly filed a precedent-setting UN complaint against Iran amid U.S.-facilitated Israel-Lebanon normalization talks in Washington, D.C.

The lawmakers voiced their frustrations with the Pentagon following a decision not to send thousands of U.S. troops to Poland.

On May 15, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province. In previous outbreaks,

British Prime Minister ​Keir Starmer ‌is expected to approve ​an ​increase of 18 ⁠billion pounds ($23.97 ​billion) in ​defence spending as he faces ​a ​battle for political survival, ‌The ⁠Times reported on Friday.

After final tallies, Peruvian right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez will compete in a presidential runoff June 7.

A Russian airstrike on a Kyiv apartment complex that killed at least 24 people and a Ukrainian strike on residential buildings and an oil refinery in Ryazan, Russia, suggested no end is in sight to the war.