new video loaded: Deadly Iranian Attack Fills Kuwait Airport With Smoke and Flames At least one person was killed and dozens were injured in an Iranian drone attack on Kuwait’s international airport on Wednesday. By James McManagan and Cynthia Silva June 3, 2026 Source link
ADF fighters killed at least 16 people in the city of Beni on Sunday, according to the Congolese government. While the details about the attack are still not clear, it is the first time the ADF made an incursion into Beni in three years. FRANCE 24’s Emmet Livingstone reports from DR Congo. Keywords for this article Source link
Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including two children and their father, a day after US President Donald Trump said Israel and the militant group Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting. The ongoing hostilities – despite Trump’s announcement and a nominal ceasefire that began in April – are deepening displacement for Lebanon’s conflict-weary population. They also are a significant sticking point in negotiations to extend a ceasefire in the US-Israeli war in Iran, as the Islamic Republic wants any such deal to end fighting in Lebanon, too. Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon 24 hours after Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut to avert further escalation in the three-month-old war. Following Trump’s intervention, Lebanon’s government said Israel would refrain from carrying out threatened strikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, while the group would halt attacks against Israel. But the announcement has failed to reassure many Lebanese or halt the broader war in south Lebanon, which Netanyahu has vowed would continue. The din of an …
This undated microscope image from USC via the NIH shows pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, growing as a sphere encased in membranes, red. Min Yu/AP/USC via NIH hide caption toggle caption Min Yu/AP/USC via NIH WASHINGTON — A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. “While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped lead the study. The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases — a target that had eluded treatment for decades. The daily pills nearly doubled survival time, with fewer severe side effects, in a study that randomly assigned the experimental drug or more chemotherapy to 500 patients whose metastatic, or spreading, cancer had quit responding to prior treatment. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine …
The cruise vessel at the heart of a fatal hantavirus outbreak has been given the all-clear to return to service, Oceanwide Expeditions has announced. MV Hondius triggered a worldwide health emergency earlier this month when passengers contracted the disease. A total of 13 confirmed cases have been linked to the outbreak, resulting in three fatalities. Hantavirus is an uncommon rodent-borne virus for which no vaccines or specific treatments are available, and the virus can remain dormant in the body for up to eight weeks. However, following comprehensive cleaning and disinfection procedures, the vessel is now ready to resume operations, with the Dutch public health agency stating there are ‘no longer any obstacles to putting the Hondius back to sea’. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) instructed the 22 British passengers aboard to remain at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral, in Merseyside for testing – they began quarantine on May 10. Six individuals were permitted to depart the hospital to complete their isolation at home on May 13, but the remaining 16 passengers continue to …
NewsFeed Kenyan police have arrested eight students on suspicion of arson after a deadly fire ripped through a girls’ boarding school dormitory, killing 16 students and injuring 79 others. The school remained closed Friday as police questioned dozens of students. Published On 29 May 202629 May 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link
The most obvious is the disease itself. Ebola is a severe disease with an average 50% fatality rate. Previous outbreaks have resulted in thousands of deaths. (Hantavirus also has a high fatality rate, but it doesn’t usually spread as easily between humans.) Between 2014 and 2016, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa caused more than 11,000 deaths. A more recent outbreak, which took place between 2018 and 2020, caused 2,299 deaths before being brought under control with a vaccination campaign. But those outbreaks were caused by the Zaire virus, which has a different genetic sequence. There is no vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus. We don’t know if the two vaccines approved for Zaire might also work for Bundibugyo. There’s a concern they might even make things worse by interfering with a person’s immune response to the virus. Scientists are working on potential Bundibugyo vaccines. But the most advanced efforts are still months away from clinical trials. There are no specific antiviral treatments for the virus, either. So to control the outbreak, health-care workers are trying …
Europe has experienced an exceptional heatwave this week, with temperature records broken across multiple countries under a persistent area of high pressure, commonly referred to as a “heat dome.” The UK surpassed its May maximum temperature record on Tuesday, with 35.1C recorded at Kew Gardens, London. This broke the record set only the day before, with 34.8C recorded in London on Monday. Previously, the maximum May temperature record was 32.8C, recorded in 1922 and then matched in 1944. Ireland also broke its May maximum temperature, with 28.8C recorded at two weather stations – in Killarney in the south-west and Clonmel in the south. Not only have maximum temperatures been smashed; night-time minimums have also been at record highs. Overnight on Tuesday, Camborne in south-west England dropped only to 21.4C, marking another tropical night in which temperatures remained above 20C. Similarly, temperatures across France reached 36C on Monday and Tuesday, the hottest May days on record. A French government spokesperson said the heat had this week been responsible for the deaths of seven people, either directly …
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In this 2021 photo, signs are displayed at a tent during a health event in Charleston, W.Va. Public health officials say the spread of naloxone, also known as Narcan, has dramatically reduced overdose deaths in the U.S. John Raby/AP hide caption toggle caption John Raby/AP Despite a handful of states in the West where overdose deaths are surging, overall street drug fatalities in the U.S. continued to drop at a historic rate in 2025, falling roughly 14% compared with 2024. In all, 69,973 people died from fatal overdoses last year nationwide, according to the latest preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While that toll is painful, it means roughly 11,300 fewer people lost their lives to drugs compared with the year before. “This is very good news,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal government’s leading addiction research agency. “We started to see the declines in 2023, but they were small and we weren’t certain they were going to be sustainable.” Public …
