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Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said on Thursday that the quarantine period for passengers from the Hondius, the cruise ship that was afflicted by a hantavirus outbreak in April, will be extended from June 5 to June 23. Butler said the decision to extend the quarantine was based on advice from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and “our own health officials.” “The incubation period for hantavirus can be up to 42 days, so World Health Organization advice is that quarantine arrangements remain in place of some type or another for those 42 days,” he said, without explaining why the quarantine…

On Thursday, on CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said the only thing he wanted to hear from former first lady Jill Biden was an apology, while discussing her recent statements about President Joe Biden’s last debate performance. Co-host Kasie Hunt said, “Now we’re hearing this from Joe Biden. Is it productive for her to be out there saying these things at this point, in your view? Smith said, “I don’t think it’s terribly productive. And it’s sad, and it’s dishonest. I mean, just think of the two sentences she said. I saw him on the debate stage. I…

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys previously urged the US-led bloc to show Moscow that it can neutralize its “small fortress” of Kaliningrad Croatian President Zoran Milanovic broke ranks with other NATO members as he slammed Lithuania’s foreign minister for his “irresponsible” call to attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.Milanovic’s comments came after Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys called NATO the “strongest organization ever created” last week, arguing for a more assertive posture toward Russia and saying European NATO members must turn “fear of the threat into a sense of empowerment.” “We have to show the Russians that we’re capable of penetrating…

Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off. One ship is headed for India, while the other is bound for China. The ship headed for India is the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Nissos Keros, flagged to the Marshall Islands and chartered by Swiss-based trading company Vitol. The ship is carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is headed for India’s port of Visakhapatnam, which is the location of a refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum, a subsidiary of…

Mayor Karen Bass believes that the streets of Los Angeles are now “safer than they’ve been since the 1950s.” Bass supported this claim during an interview with KBLA radio host Dominique Diprima, who suggested that Los Angeles may actually be a safer place than the media lets on. “Reality is our streets are safer than they’ve been since … What? The 1950s?” said Diprima. Bass agreed. “Yeah!” said Bass. “And gang homicide is down — and by the way, most of the homicides are gang related. It’s down to 1960 levels.” According to the Los Angeles Times, while violent crime…

Vladimir Putin contrasted foreign broadcasters’ silence over Kiev’s killing of Russian students with their extensive coverage of Moscow’s response Western media have ignored Kiev’s killing of Russian students in Starobelsk while devoting extensive coverage to Moscow’s response, President Vladimir Putin has said, accusing foreign outlets of “making fools” of their audiences.  Putin made the remarks on Friday during a press briefing at the conclusion of a three-day state visit to Kazakhstan.  Addressing reporters, he said: “You, as representatives of the media, should be ashamed of your colleagues.” “Not a single word about the tragedy in Starobelsk. Not a single word about…

The State Department will announce on Thursday that it is planning to designate Brazil’s two most powerful organized criminal syndicates, the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, or PCC), as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The designations impose onerous sanctions on the gangs and their members, block them from keeping their assets in the United States or freeze assets already in the country, and make it illegal for American citizens to offer material support to them. In a statement on Thursday, the State Department explained that the PCC and Red…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ actions were “cruel and inhumane.” Mamdani said, “We are proud of the fact that we are a sanctuary city. We’re proud of that for a number of reasons. One, it is a policy designed to keep New Yorkers safe. Two, we know that here in our city, we are proud of the more than 3 million New Yorkers who are immigrants. I’m one of them. And we know that in a city like this, it is incumbent upon us to live up to…

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Wednesday revealed that it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug boat engaged in narco-trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific, killing two male individuals identified as narco-terrorists. Wednesday’s strike is the fifth such military strike against a drug-trafficking vessel disclosed by SOUTHCOM in May 2026 and is part of Operation Southern Spear, an ongoing U.S. military counter-narco-terrorism security campaign. In an official statement, SOUTHCOM detailed that the operation was carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known…

Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement was “chaotic, cruel and corrupt.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Senator, you went inside the facility yesterday. You said it is a moral stain in our nation. What did you see? What did the detainees tell you?” Booker said, “Well, remember this is being run by a private corporation that showered Republicans with cash. Have $1 billion operation. So it is a private, for profit prison now profiting off of people’s pain. Inside, the conditions were insufficient and unacceptable. From lots of complaints about medical conditions,…