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    Spain declares emergency as fires force thousands of evacuations in France

    NAVALUENGA, Spain/LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France — Spain declared a national emergency over wildfires for the first time on Friday and France asked for help from the European Union to tackle a blaze on the Atlantic coast as searing heat fuelled fires across Europe and forced tens of thousands of evacuations. French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourism hotspot busy for the summer season, as smoke and flames drew closer to homes. About 63,000 people were evacuated from the area, many brought to safety by boat, officials said. Close by, in the town of Biscarrosse, another large fire also forced residents to leave their homes. "From our home, we had a view of the fires ... We could see the clouds becoming darker and darker," said Yoan Urien, 26, who left late on Thursday after police told everyone in his neighbourhood to leave. "I was able to find somewhere to take shelter with my pets, but ... it's quite a shock," he told Reuters. A fire that began in Saumos, north of Cap Ferret, is threatening to cut off the only road out of the peninsula and is the lar

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    Spain declares emergency as fires force thousands of evacuations in France
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    Drones target northern Iraqi city where US forces are based as US-Iran fighting escalates

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    Drones target northern Iraqi city where US forces are based as US-Iran fighting escalates
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    Giraffes given new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in country's largest park

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    Giraffes given new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in country's largest park
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    Liberia seizes $317 mil. of cocaine bound for Europe

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    Liberia seizes $317 mil. of cocaine bound for Europe
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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage

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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage
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Dow jumps 900 points as oil prices ease, but slumping AI stocks keep Wall Street in check

NEW YORK — Most U.S. stocks are rising Thursday as oil prices ease, but slumps for influential artificial-intelligence winners are keeping Wall Street in check. The S&P 500 added 0.3 percent a day after dropping from its all-time high and coming just short of its longest winning streak in three decades. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 925 points, or 1.8 percent, as of 12:34 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2 percent lower. A clear majority of stocks on Wall Street climbed, including 3 out of every 4 in the S&P 500. They got a boost from a 2.8 percent drop for the price of Brent crude oil to $95.10 per barrel. That gave back a chunk of its rise this week caused by the latest flare-ups of fighting between Iran and the United States and its allies. The expectation on Wall Street seems to be that the United States and Iran will ultimately agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers. That would hopefully improve the flow of crude, lower oil's price and remove some of the upward pressure on inflation that's hurting the world. Such hopes, along with strong pr

Jun 5, 2026By AP
Dow jumps 900 points as oil prices ease, but slumping AI stocks keep Wall Street in check
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Beijing says US Tiananmen comments 'smear' China

BEIJING — China accused the United States on Thursday of distorting facts and smearing its political system, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said censorship could not "erase" the memory of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. On June 4 that year, the Chinese government sent troops and tanks to crush protests calling for political reform in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The death toll remains unknown, and discussion of what happened is censored in mainland China. Rubio told a news conference on Wednesday that "no amount of censorship can erase the past." "Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday," he said. China's foreign ministry said Thursday it firmly opposed Rubio's comments. "The Chinese government has long since reached a clear conclusion regarding that political turmoil that occurred in the late 1980s," ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular news briefing. "The relevant erroneous remarks by the US side distort historical facts, smear China's political system and development path, an

Jun 5, 2026By AFP
Beijing says US Tiananmen comments 'smear' China
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What it's like to go inside New York City's dank, dangerous, bug-filled sewers

NEW YORK — It wasn’t the rats. Or the smells. Or the germs. No, the most unpleasant part of descending into New York City's vast sewer system, according to former urban explorer Steve Duncan, were the cockroaches. “They’re all over the place, crawling on walls, dropping down on you,” Duncan recalled this week. “They were the worst.” Duncan, 48, who now lives in Maryland, reflected on his years documenting the muck-filled tunnels running under New York after surveillance videos captured small groups of people mysteriously entering and exiting the sewer system in Brooklyn and Queens in recent days. Police say they’re still investigating the three incidents but don’t believe there’s any threat to the public. Officials stress that it is both illegal and dangerous to enter the city’s 7,400 miles (12,000 kilometers) of sewer pipes. Duncan believes the groups were likely explorers like him, traversing the large, 19th century sewer mains that run underneath parts of the city. These relatively cavernous spaces can exceed 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter — tall enough for most

Jun 5, 2026By AP
What it's like to go inside New York City's dank, dangerous, bug-filled sewers
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IAEA finds little change in Iran nuclear program after war

VIENNA — The U.N. nuclear watchdog sent a report to member states on Thursday with no major changes to its assessment of Iran's nuclear programme, despite three months of U.S.-Israeli war with the stated aim of preventing Iran from building an atomic bomb. In its first report into Iran's nuclear programme since the day before the United States and Israel launched air strikes on Iran at the end of February, the IAEA repeated calls for Tehran to explain the fate of stockpilesof enriched uranium. The uranium has been unaccounted for since an earlier U.S.-Israeli bombingcampaign a year ago targeted Iran's main nuclear sites. U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly cited destroying Iran's nuclear programme as one of their main aims in launching fresh strikes at the end of February. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile has been a major sticking point in negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war, with Trump insisting Iran give it up. Efforts have lately focused on a preliminary deal that would leave nuclear issues for later. The c

Jun 5, 2026By Reuters
IAEA finds little change in Iran nuclear program after war
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Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at 56

PARIS — Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights, has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday. “Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the French presidency said in a statement. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife “pay tribute to a remarkable artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable,” the statement said. News broadcaster BFM TV and other French media reported Satrapi has “died of sadness” a little over a year after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, according to a statement from people close to the artist. The French Academy of Fine Arts, of which she was a member, expressed its deep sadness in a social media statement, paying tribute to “a passionate advocate for cinema and film education” who earlier this year created a foundation to help international students come to Paris to study fil

Jun 4, 2026By AP
Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at 56
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Hezbollah rejects ceasefire plan declared in Washington

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Hezbollah rejected a ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments in U.S.-mediated talks, as Israel kept up strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it wouldn't be withdrawing from the south. The United States announced on Wednesday that Lebanon and Israel had agreed to implement a ceasefire contingent on Iran-backed Hezbollah ceasing fire and evacuating its fighters from areas of southern Lebanon near the border. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem, whose Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group is not a party to the talks, said the negotiations were shameless, rejecting the Washington declaration as "a roadmap for the annihilation of a section of the Lebanese people and the enslavement of the rest." "As long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue," he said in a written statement. Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel reignited on March 2, when the group opened fire in support of Tehran as it came under U.S.-Israeli attack. The war has ground on despite several ceasefires declared from Washington since April. The war has become a sticking po

Jun 4, 2026By Reuters
Hezbollah rejects ceasefire plan declared in Washington
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Trump slams 'unpatriotic' US House vote to end Iran war

President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed a vote in the U.S. House seeking to order the withdrawal of American troops from the Iran war, suggesting the "unpatriotic" move disrupted negotiations with Tehran. The largely symbolic vote came "right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. "Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where the negotiations stand." In a notable rebuke of Trump, four members of his majority Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday in backing the measure, which passed 215-208 and now heads to the Senate. The measure, which will ultimately face a presidential veto, marked the first time the Republican-controled House approved a measure seeking to force Trump to wind down military operations against Tehran since the war began three months ago. Democrats accuse Trump of violating the constitution by launching strikes on Iran alongside Israel in late February without congressional authorization. Under the War Powers Act, presidents have 60 days to obtain congres

Jun 4, 2026By AFP
Trump slams 'unpatriotic' US House vote to end Iran war
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Satellite images show suspected structure at disputed South China Sea atoll, but later gone

Satellite images obtained by Reuters confirmed the presence of a structure at the entrance of the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea last week, though later imagery suggests it is no longer there. The Philippines said on Wednesday it was investigating reports about the presence of a new structure on the Scarborough Shoal, which China has at times attempted to block since it seized de facto control of the atoll in 2012. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro received raw information about the presence of the structure, he told reporters on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue — a regional defence forum — in Singapore on Saturday. Photographs taken on May 27, 29, and 30 show what an analyst at Vantor, a commercial provider of satellite imagery, said was possibly a floating raft or buoy at the opening of the atoll, in addition to a barrier stretching across it in the May 27 and 29 images. On Tuesday, U.S.-based maritime monitoring group, SeaLight, posted on X satellite imagery taken on May 28 of Scarborough Shoal showing what it described as a "small, reflective obj

Jun 4, 2026By Reuters
Satellite images show suspected structure at disputed South China Sea atoll, but later gone
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Taiwan presses China to confront Tiananmen past

TAIPEI/BEIJING — Taiwan has pressed China to recognise the deadly crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 37 years ago, in commemorating the anniversary on Thursday of an event that remains taboo for Beijing. "I sincerely hope that China can face up to the June 4 incident of 37 years ago, acknowledge the truth, soothe the pain, and open the door to reconciliation and dialogue," Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said in a post on his Facebook page. The events on and around the central Beijing square on June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops opened fire to end the student-led pro-democracy protests, are not publicly discussed in China and the anniversary is not officially marked. Public commemorations now take place in overseas cities, including Taipei where senior Taiwanese government leaders often use the anniversary to criticise China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory. Lai warned against "blindly believing" in militarism and said a healthy government and society should strive to support better lives for the next generation rather than use "violence

Jun 4, 2026By Reuters
Taiwan presses China to confront Tiananmen past
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Kuwait says Iranian drones hit airport and killed 1 as ceasefire is tested again

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal at Kuwait's main airport Wednesday, killing one person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield — the latest in back-and-forth attacks by Iran and the U.S. that test a fragile ceasefire. The strike reinforced the risks to residents and travelers in Gulf countries that had considered themselves relative havens before the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran . Iran denied causing the damage. Talks have dragged on for weeks as mediators seek a more enduring truce in the war, now in its fourth month. They are increasingly strained by Israel’s broadening war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. A regional official said Iran wanted a separate ceasefire in Lebanon enforced before returning to talks. President Donald Trump said negotiations continue to extend the Iran ceasefire, even as the U.S. launched strikes against military sites on an Iranian island. “We’ve been hitting them pretty hard,” Trump said when asked by reporters on Wednesday if the ceasefire remains in place. “I’d say in

Jun 4, 2026By AP
Kuwait says Iranian drones hit airport and killed 1 as ceasefire is tested again
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