International News from Thursday, May 28th, 2026

Average global temperatures are forecast to reach near-record levels in the next five years, with Arctic temperatures expected to warm faster than other regions, a report by the UN weather agency and the UK’s Met Office said on Thursday.

A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing at least 15 students, police said on Thursday.

The leader of a Thai volunteer group helping to extract seven divers trapped in a cave in Laos said on Thursday that more oxygen tanks would be needed to complete the rescue mission.

Kuwait's army said on Thursday that its air defences had intercepted missiles and drones but did not say where they came from.

Israel's military on Wednesday declared a new swathe of southern Lebanon as a combat zone and said residents in the area should move north, warning it would act "with great force" against Hezbollah in the zone.

The US military carried out new strikes in Iran on Thursday, targeting a military site that officials believed posed a threat to US forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Donald Trump dismissed an Iranian report of a deal to restore traffic through the strategic waterway.