DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - More Than 1,100 Dead and No End in Sight. While Christians are being slaughtered and kidnapped on a daily basis in Nigeria, Christians are also being massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Like in Nigeria, the perpetrators are not Mennonites. They are Islamic extremists. Islamist terrorists killed 57 Christians over a week-long period ending June 2, 2026, in the Beni region of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. ISCAP has claimed the killing of at least 1,100 Christians in northeastern DRC since its campaign escalated in December 2024, and more than 6,500 since first pledging allegiance to the Islamic State in 2017. The pace of attacks in 2026 has been relentless. According to UNHCR, more than 7.3 million people are internally displaced in eastern DRC, the highest total in Africa and among the highest in the world.

USA - The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 215-208 to end the war with Iran. This is the first time the House has voted to stop Trump’s military action in Iran. Four Republicans voted with the Democrats: Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Warren Davidson. The resolution is likely dead on arrival in the Senate. If it passes the Senate, Trump will veto the resolution. House lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation designed to force President Trump to end the Iran War, marking a victory for Democrats and the constitutional purists who say the conflict is illegal without explicit congressional approval. Still, the vote represents a significant development in the political battle over the Iran War, putting Congress on the record condemning a conflict that has dragged on for more than three months — and rattled the global economy — with no clear end in sight.

RUSSIA - More than 40 patients have now been selected for Russia’s personalized cancer vaccine program, with the first treatments already producing a strong immune response, Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency head and former Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova told RT’s Rick Sanchez on Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2026, Skvortsova said the treatment uses artificial intelligence as a key weapon against cancer. The vaccine is custom-made for each patient in a process that takes around 42 days. Scientists take material from the person’s tumor and blood, sequence the RNA, and use AI-driven predictive algorithms to compare the patient’s genome with that of the tumor in order to identify unique mutations. Once those targets are found, the vaccine introduces peptides that teach the immune system to recognize the same markers on malignant cells and selectively kill them, while leaving healthy tissue intact.

USA - Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, literature Professor Tyler Jagt told of an assignment for his rhetoric and writing class that asked students to read a 20-page paper. Not one student finished the paper. “It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago,” wrote Jagt, who has taught literature and critical writing at Mercer University, James Madison University, and Wake Forest University. “When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.”

USA - “The world is deeply in need of moral leadership” on the issue of artificial intelligence, American tech expert and entrepreneur Eli Pariser told Vatican News, a couple of days after the publication of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. “Right now, the people who are leading it are so frenzied by the technological race and the money that's at stake that they're really not spending enough time thinking about the deep ethical and moral questions,” he continued. In an interview with Vatican News, Pariser spoke about the impact that the encyclical is having in tech circles and beyond, and commended the Pope’s view that there is still time to develop AI in a way that benefits humanity. “I'm very grateful to the Pope and the Vatican for leading the conversation and reminding people that at the end of the day, this has to be about human dignity and human flourishing and not about technology,” he emphasized. “It is anthropological, not technological.”

USA - Google has requested permission to release up to 64 million infected mosquitoes across California and Florida in a “debugging” programme designed to slow the spread of disease. Flooding the states with tens of millions of mosquitoes may sound like a surprising way to reduce the number of the blood-sucking insects, but the bugs in question would all be sterilised males. Male mosquitoes do not bite and thus do not carry the risk of spreading disease posed by females. Instead the plan is for them to mate with females, who would then lay eggs that will never hatch, thereby reducing the number of mosquitoes generation by generation.

USA - The story is that some of America’s most powerful banks, two government-sponsored enterprises holding trillions of dollars in mortgage paper, and federal regulators at Treasury and the SEC have all agreed to play along — without the public ever being asked whether religious law from abroad should be reshaping how American capital moves. Major US banks including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citicorp, and Merrill Lynch now offer shariah-compliant financial products structured around Islamic religious rulings. Observant Muslims regard the charging or earning of interest, called riba, as forbidden. So a parallel set of financial instruments has been engineered to mimic the function of conventional loans, mortgages, and investment vehicles without technically involving interest. National-security analysts see leverage being accumulated by activist investors who answer to clerics rather than to fiduciary duty as ordinarily understood. And the American public, by and large, has never been told any of this is happening.

USA - When details about the latest phone call between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were leaked, the headlines focused on the wave of profanities from the US president. “What the f--- are you doing?” shouted Mr Trump in reference to the Israeli prime minister’s continued bombing of Lebanon. “You’re f---ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.” It is strong stuff, revealing genuine anger – but it is not the first time an American president has lost his patience with the aggressive brinkmanship of Mr Netanyahu. Much more troubling for the Jewish state are the words from Mr Trump that followed: “Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

EUROPE - IPCC admits doomsday scenario was “implausible” garbage – but Brussels refuses to scrap a single regulation built on the lie. The House of the Great Climate Scam is collapsing. The United Nations’ own climate priesthood has finally admitted what skeptics have screamed for years: their favorite apocalyptic scenario, RCP8.5 – the one predicting civilization-ending warming, floods, fires, and famines unless we destroy our economies with Green New Deals – is “implausible.” Fake. Junk science sold as gospel. But here’s the real bombshell the fake news won’t touch: The European Union, that bloated bureaucratic beast strangling its citizens with Net Zero madness, hasn’t pulled even one document, “scientific” report, regulation, or taxpayer-funded scare tactic based on this now-discredited fairy tale. Not a single one. Trillions in subsidies, destroyed industries, skyrocketing energy bills, and farmers rioting in the streets – all propped up on a foundation of lies.

IRAN - The independent outlet Iran International reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources, that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian submitted a resignation letter to alleged “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei complaining that the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made his job impossible. In Iran, the “supreme leader” is the all-powerful dictator of the country, who maintains a delicate balance of power between the IRGC, a formal wing of the Iranian military, and the civilian leaders of the country.