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Jun 5, 2026 - World

Thousands of people are estimated to have been killed on June 4, 37 years ago.

Jun 5, 2026 - World

The Oreshnik, which Russia first fired against Ukraine in 2024, and most recently last month, has a range of over 5,000 km (3,100 miles).

Jun 5, 2026 - World

Authorities in Fukushima continue searching for a bear that injured four people before escaping an electronics factory by opening a locked window.

Jun 5, 2026 - World

State department’s incendiary charge into UK politics comes from Trump who leaned into personal feud with London mayor, Sadiq KhanHow Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervenedIn the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings. Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.Now they tweet from the hip. “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,” the department’s official account posted on Thursday. “They must be rejected across the West.” Continue reading...

Jun 5, 2026 - World

Brendan Banfield convicted of killing Christine Banfield and man lured to couple’s Virginia home as fall guyA Virginia man who was having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife and a man who was lured to the couple’s home as a fall guy.Brendan Banfield, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) law enforcement officer, claimed he shot Joseph Ryan after he came across Ryan attacking his wife on the morning of 24 February 2023. But prosecutors said Brendan Banfield and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães set Ryan up in a scheme to kill Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse. Continue reading...