- BELGRADE, Serbia — The European Union’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Friday canceled an upcoming visit to candidate nation Serbia over what she described as the “glorification” of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladić following his death.
- Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.
- Two workers in Nepal were pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel on Friday, some nine days after devastating floods swept the Himalayan region and left thousands of people missing.
- The search for survivors from the deadly floods in Nepal enters its eighth day as mourners have begun to hold symbolic cremations, with morgues overwhelmed by a large number of unidentified remains. The incident claimed more than 1,200 lives and left more than 4,000 missing. NBC News' Daniele Hamamdjian reports on the ongoing rescue efforts […]
- The nationwide average price for diesel fuel rose to $5.78 per gallon, up 9 cents overnight.
- As hopes for those still missing fade, families without the remains of their relatives are burning effigies on miniature funeral pyres.
- As the food shortage in Cuba worsens and some elderly residents look through the trash for their next meal, church volunteers provide what’s become some people’s only meal.
- About 5,000 U.S. sailors and Marines are stopping in the resort city of Pattaya for a “rest and relaxation” break as they return home from a record-setting deployment in the Middle East.
- President Trump said that the U.S. launched “large and powerful” strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said that it had targeted “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran.” In response, Iran’s armed forces general staff said that it would retaliate. NBC News' Keir Simmons reports.
- The strikes were in “retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines” in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said on Truth Social.
- Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was left out of the “family photo” of finance ministers at a G20 meeting after complaints from Ukraine’s allies.
- A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists.