Moderna is developing an mRNA vaccine against the rare Bundibugyo virus. The vaccine could be used to protect against the Ebola virus. Moderna is funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) CEPI is a non-profit organization based in the U.S.
Swiss voters reject proposal to cap country’s population at 10 million. Plan dubbed a recipe for chaos by critics. Switzerland's population already stands at 9.1 million and has grown far more quickly than in the EU. The proposal was made by the right-wing Swiss People's Party.
Trump endorses close ally Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia’s Republican Senate primary early Sunday morning. Collins has long showcased his MAGA credentials and support for the president, but Trump remained neutral in the Georgia primary and runoff election until now. Collins faces off against former college football coach Derek Dooley, who has the support of popular conservative Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
Curaçao are the smallest nation ever to compete at a World Cup. They will play Germany in their first ever World Cup match. The match will be played at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The game will be the first time the Caribbean nation has played at a major tournament.
Iran is the only team arriving from a country effectively at war with one of the three hosts. The dispute over Iran’s place in the tournament cannot be separated from the war that has shadowed it since February. Iran and the United States could meet in the round of 32 on July 3 in Arlington, Texas.
Ghana vs Panama kicks off at 19:00 local time (23:00 BST) on Wednesday 17 June 2026 at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada. Ghana and Panama both open Group L knowing this fixture could prove decisive in the fight to avoid bottom place. Panama’s compact structure will likely limit the margin of victory, while Ghana have enough quality to edge the result without turning this.
US President Donald Trump claims that the first stage of a peace deal with Iran will be signed on Sunday. He said the Strait of Hormuz would be immediately “open to all’, adding that “when all is calm”, the US will “get the Nuclear Dust” in Iran and “destroy it”
James Boyard was seized in the island's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday. He is the highest-ranking official to be kidnapped in the violence-wracked Caribbean country in recent years. A ransom has been requested, according to the New York Times, who cited a person familiar with the case.
Niño Guerrero, whose full name is Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, was the longtime leader of Tren de Aragua. The gang is one of the most notorious criminal groups in Latin America and has been a target of the Trump administration. It spread out of Venezuela when the country entered a humanitarian and economic emergency in 2014.
UK intercepts Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker for first time. UK has sanctioned almost 600 Russian shadow fleet vessels in an attempt to reduce the sale of Russian oil on global markets. France has previously intercepted several vessels linked to Russia’s shadow fleet, which carries Russian oil in defiance of international sanctions.
The Kremlin’s strategy has long been to outlast Ukraine in an attritional war. “There are signs that this incentive may no longer be working effectively, and that Russia has begun to lose more troops than it can recruit,” Gould-Davies said in a recent report.
About 72 US military tankers are currently parked at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, occupying more than half of the spaces for airplanes. Minister Miri Regev warned that up to 2.4 million flight tickets for the summer travel season may have to be cancelled. Not a single US tanker is parked at Israel's military airbases.
“I don’t like the idea of fighting outside at all. There are too many problems with it,” he said. “It’s like, you just get tired of it.” “I’m tired of being told what to do. I want to do it myself,’ he added.