Sri Lanka care home owner in custody after overnight fire kills 12, officials say
Police said initial witness accounts suggested that the fire originated in a storeroom where dozens of mattresses were stacked.
Day: June 4, 2026
Rights group sues South African government over US arms exports
Case challenges permits approved by South Africa’s arms control body, citing compliance failures and oversight gaps.
As Armenia heads to the polls, Karabakh refugees face growing marginalisation
With Armenia heading to the polls for a critical parliamentary election, a bitter internal battle has taken center stage. Since the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled. But as Prime Minister Pashinyan campaig…
Family of Auburn student missing in Japan thinks he was going hiking before he disappeared
A search is underway for James “Weston” Higginbotham, a 20-year-old Auburn student who went missing on a family trip to Japan. His parents believe their son was headed to a hiking trail before disappearing. Anna Coren reports.
In Lebanon, Israeli targeted strikes deepen divisions between communities
In Lebanon, Israeli targeted strikes carried out outside Hezbollah’s traditional areas are putting increasing strain on relations between the country’s different communities. In some neighborhoods, the presence of Hezbollah members or displaced people…
Oil prices fall 3% on report Trump reluctant to restart Iran war
President Donald Trump told aides that he won’t resume the war unless U.S. troops are killed, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Right-wing civil war explodes at ‘woke Reich traitor’ Candace Owens speaking in Russia
Conservative podcaster Candace Owens is facing a firestorm from within her own movement after speaking at a Kremlin-backed forum in St. Petersburg alongside sanctioned Russian officials — and the backlash from the right has been savage.Radio host Mark…
Posidonia puts brakes on VLCCs and suezmaxes as aframaxes rebound
Shipping is focused on the Athens activity, blunting activity, brokers say
Archaeologists find ancient matrilineal society in Turkiye’s Catalhoyuk
About 9,000 years ago, the settlement was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence.
Critical Cisco Unified CM Bug Patched as Public Exploit Code Emerges
Cisco patched a critical Unified CM flaw with public PoC code that allows unauthenticated attackers to launch SSRF attacks remotely. Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230, affecting Unified CM and Unified CM SME. The flaw, caused by improper validation of certain HTTP requests, allows a remote attacker without authentication to perform server-side […]