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On 30-31 May 2026 Rosatom claimed a Ukrainian FPV drone deliberately punched through the turbine-hall wall of Zaporizhzhia’s Unit 6; Kyiv called the charge propaganda and the IAEA demanded on-site inspection, confirming no radiation leak.
On 30–31 May 2026 Israeli forces crossed Lebanon’s Litani River and seized Beaufort Castle—Israel’s deepest penetration since its 2000 withdrawal—shattering the April-17 ceasefire and provoking heavier Hezbollah rocket fire and Lebanese condemnation.
Between 28–29 May 2026 the IDF broke the April ceasefire by crossing the Litani River and conducting only its second post-ceasefire airstrike in Beirut, killing at least 14 civilians, hours before Israeli-Lebanese military negotiations open at the Pentagon.
On 28-29 May 2026 Israel widened its declared combat zone northward by 40 km, ordered evacuations covering roughly 300 towns, then carried out the first major air-strikes on Beirut and intensified attacks across southern Lebanon despite the U.S.–brokered April truce.
On 27 May 2026 an Israeli air-strike in Gaza City killed Mohammed Odeh—named head of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades barely 11 days earlier—making him the fourth commander eliminated since the October 2023 war yet during the still-unresolved Trump-brokered 2025 cease-fire.
On 28–29 May 2026, WHO formally endorsed limited clinical-trial use of two new Bundibugyo Ebola vaccines and several monoclonal/antiviral treatments as the DRC-Uganda outbreak tops 200 deaths.
On 24-26 May 2026 Moscow carried out its largest drone-missile strike of the war—launching roughly 600 drones and 90 missiles, including a nuclear-capable Oreshnik—and the following day formally warned foreign diplomats to evacuate Kyiv ahead of additional “systematic” attacks.
Anonymous US officials say negotiators agreed on 28 May 2026 to prolong the 3-month US-Iran ceasefire by 60 days and open formal nuclear talks, but Tehran has not confirmed and President Trump has not yet approved it.
At 4:50 a.m. on 28 May 2026, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched missiles/drones at the Gulf installation they say launched earlier U.S. strikes on Bandar Abbas, puncturing the seven-week cease-fire.
On 28 May 2026, U.S. forces bombed an Iranian drone-control site in Bandar Abbas and intercepted IRGC drones over the Strait of Hormuz, after which Iran launched missiles and drones at a U.S. base in Kuwait, puncturing a 40-day ceasefire.
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