11 people have reportedly been killed in an aircraft crash near Nancy, France.

Abelardo de la Espriella image by JUAN CARLOS SIERRA-SEMANA via SEMANA

Two major earthquakes struck Venezuela within seconds Wednesday evening, shaking Caracas and causing buildings to collapse as rescue crews searched through rubble.

After seven years of studied distance, Xi Jinping’s state visit to North Korea on June 8–9 signals far more than a diplomatic reset. It is Beijing’s formal acknowledgment that the peninsula’s geopolitical gravity has shifted — and that China cannot afford to be an absentee patron any longer. When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane at Pyongyang International Airport on June 8, 2026, he was greeted by the full pageantry

Over the last week, the Midwest has been ravaged by rounds of severe weather, including a rare phenomenon called a derecho and a tornado outbreak. Today, there is a moderate in place over some of the areas already hit and effected by last week’s storms. In the last week, a Derecho and multiple tornadoes, including two EF-3s, struck portions of Illinois and Indiana. Today, there is a Moderate Risk (level

Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez by the Japan times image by Alexander Villegas and Marco Aquino

The U.K. Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into a reported confrontation involving the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich, which allegedly fired warning shots at a British yacht navigating the English Channel.

American singer and songwriter Oliver Tree was aboard a helicopter with four other people when it was involved in a fatal midair collision with another aircraft. Both helicopters crashed over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Authorities have confirmed that all passengers aboard perished, although they have not yet been able to formally identify the bodies.

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base at about 11:20 a.m., according to an initial report. Emergency crews responded to the scene as a large fire sent thick black smoke above the airfield. No confirmed information was immediately available about the crew, injuries or the cause of the reported crash. Base officials had not issued a statement at the time of publication.

Two historic buildings at Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra were damaged during a Russian air attack, marking the UNESCO-listed monastery’s first wartime damage since World War II.

Throughout the history of modern crises, the standoff revolving around Iran differs significantly from the rest, which brings the crucial question of what exactly the U.S. endgame is.

The downing of an Army Apache over the Strait of Hormuz — hours after Iran declared a halt to its operations — set off American strikes, Iranian retaliation across three Gulf states, and a question neither government can answer in public.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck the southern Philippines on June 7, 2026, causing building collapses, infrastructure damage and casualties across parts of Mindanao.

A preliminary Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake has struck in the Philippines, causing Tsunami Advisories to be issued in areas in the Pacific. The depth as reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has the depth estimated as 35km, or about 22 mi underground. Preliminarily, the epicenter is estimated to be 24 miles west southwest of Burias, Philippines, located in the Pacific Ocean. In the Philippines, a Tsunami Warning has been

Iran has restarted the conflict with Israel in response to IDF aggression in Lebanon.

Germany’s conservatives and Greens explore a possible federal alliance as SPD support collapses, reshaping coalition politics and reform debates.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is tracking Tropical Amanda in the Eastern Pacific basin, 1475 miles south of Baja California. This storm originally was Tropical Depression One-E. There is no threat to population with this storm. At the 8 AM NHC Advisory, Amanda had sustained winds of 40 mph or 65 km/h. The minimum central pressure was at 1006 mb, moving northwest at 8 mph or 13 km/h. Amanda is

SEOUL/DAEJEON — South Korea’s industrial sector faced a chaotic morning on June 1, as two separate major emergencies struck manufacturing facilities, resulting in multiple casualties, widespread evacuations, and significant structural damage. Emergency services have been deployed to manage a massive explosion at a Hanwha Aerospace plant in Daejeon and a toxic gas leak at an SK Hynix semiconductor facility in Cheongju. Casualties and Injuries Infrastructure Damage Full investigations into the