Thursday 28 May 2026

U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent says that Oman will not participate in imposing tolls on ships and vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz after previously threatening to impose sanctions against them earlier in the day if it were to join Iran in doing so.

At least 19 people, including two children, are killed from Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, as Israel intensifies its assault and issues mass displacement orders across the region. The Israeli military alleges that it is a targeted attack.

The Israeli military announces that it has assassinated Ihab Khrizim, a leader of a central Hamas funds transfer network, in a strike in the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip in Palestine.

Three people are injured in a mass stabbing at a train station in Winterthur, Switzerland. The perpetrator is arrested and authorities declare the attack as an act of terrorism.

The Council of the European Union sanctions four Israeli settler organizations and three settler leaders for their roles in the increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Simultaneously, they expand existing sanctions for members of the Hamas's Political Bureau.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that it targeted an American base in Kuwait in retaliation for the recent U.S. strikes near Bandar Abbas including yesterday's.

U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will halt Iranian airlines’ access to landing spots until a deal is signed.

The Kuwaiti military says that they have activated air defenses to intercept a missile along with drones.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders Israeli forces to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli military air raid kills ten people, including four children, in northern Gaza.

Clashes between FARC dissidents kill at least 48 people in Guaviare, Colombia, amid ongoing disputes over territorial and criminal control.

Israel announces it will cut ties with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his office in response to the United Nations adding the country to its blacklist of countries and organizations that employ wartime sexual violence.

Japan and Philippines agree to elevate ties to new level amid China concerns.

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio designates Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho, the two biggest drug trafficking-related criminal organizations in Brazil, as foreign terrorist groups.

The United States transfers another group of West African deportees to Ghana under third-country deportation arrangements, including at least one individual reported to hold protection from removal under U.S. immigration law.

The European Union receives a shipment of the Favipiravir for potential use against hantavirus infections.

Six people are killed and four others are trapped when an under-construction bridge collapses during a storm in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Five people are killed while 22 others are injured after a truck overturns on Cong. Andres Acop Cosalan Road in Kabayan, Benguet, Philippines.

At least three people are killed, four others are injured, and 11 more are reported missing in an explosion at an apartment building in Dallas, Texas, United States.

The death toll from the implosion of a white liquor paper mill in Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington, U.S., rises to eight.

Sixteen students are killed and 79 others injured in a fire in a dormitory at a girls school in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya.