Today's Top News

A man holds an Iranian flag near an anti-U.S. billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz. Majid Asgaripour/WANA via REUTERS

War in the Middle East

The US said it struck Iranian military sites over ‌the weekend and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted a US base in response, the latest exchange of attacks amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to attack targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut's ‌southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.

In other news

The French Navy boarded an oil tanker, named the Tagor, which was subject to international sanctions and sailing from ‌Russia.
Caught between China's rapid military rise and growing doubts about the US focus on a region it has long dominated, Indo-Pacific nations are racing to arm themselves and each other.
Four nurses who were being treated for ‌Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus have been discharged from a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo after recovering from the disease.
More than 200 people were injured and one person died in Paris following Paris Saint-Germain's second consecutive Champions League win, reviving France's heated debate about street violence.
The US Supreme Court is weighing two cases that could reshape the November midterms. Legal affairs correspondent Jan Wolfe tells the Reuters World News podcast that critics warn the decisions could open the door to corruption.

Business & Markets

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces the RTX Spark GPU during a keynote address on the sidelines of the annual Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Nvidia unveiled a new chip that puts AI capabilities directly into laptops ‌and desktop computers, to be delivered this fall, which experts said would overhaul how users engage with AI.
The US Department of Commerce moved to close a potential loophole that may have allowed companies to export the world's most advanced chips to subsidiaries of Chinese companies outside China.
China issued sweeping new rules tightening control of overseas deals that involve Chinese investors, technology, data and national security, a month after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus.
Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Taylor Morrison Home Corp for $6.8 billion in cash, expanding the conglomerate's housing business.
Major airline, travel and business groups warned that barring border processing at Newark or other major US ‌airports could lead to chaos, strand thousands of tourists and Americans trying to get home, and prevent crucial cargo shipments.
Nearly 8% of Norwegian offshore oil and gas workers plan to strike from June 5 if state-brokered wage mediation fails, labor union data ‌showed.

How Trump’s Ukraine aid cuts undermine justice for Russian war crimes

War-crimes investigators from the Ukrainian nonprofit Truth Hounds interview a woman. The woman said occupying Russian forces raped and tortured her in 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, the US has championed accountability for many of the world’s worst atrocities, supporting investigations and tribunals.

But the administration of US President Donald Trump cut tens of millions of dollars in funding for this work last year when it slashed overseas-development aid to advance the president’s “America first” agenda, according to a Reuters review of government data and interviews with eight current and former American officials.

Ukraine was the largest single recipient, the officials said.

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And Finally...

BTS fans pray to Yue Lao at Taipei’s Bangka Lungshan Temple, in hopes of securing a concert ticket. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Taiwanese fans of K-pop boy band BTS are turning to Yue Lao, the Taoist god of love and marriage, ‌in the hope that divine matchmaking will connect them with seats for their upcoming shows in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung.

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