Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 7th of May, covering the latest developments you need to know.
President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran are making progress toward a potential agreement following the latest indirect talks, although direct negotiations remain premature. Meanwhile, tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear programme and the Strait of Hormuz, while reports suggest Israel targeted senior Hezbollah and Hamas figures in fresh regional strikes.
Authorities in Argentina are tracing the movements of passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship after several travellers contracted hantavirus, leaving three dead. The World Health Organization says the outbreak may involve the rare Andes strain capable of limited human-to-human transmission, though the broader public risk remains low.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's monitoring American passengers who travelled on the hantavirus-affected cruise ship, with health authorities in several U.S. states tracking asymptomatic travellers. Officials stressed the risk to the wider public remains “extremely low” as international coordination efforts continue.
A federal judge in New York City has unsealed a handwritten document described as a suicide note allegedly written by late financier Jeffrey Epstein before his 2019 death in custody. The court clarified it was not ruling on the authenticity of the note, but said public interest outweighed arguments for keeping it sealed.
Türkiye’s special envoy for normalisation with Armenia Serdar Kılıç said that Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz's visit to Yerevan marked a “turning point” in relations between Türkiye and Armenia. Kılıç made the remarks on the sidelines of the two-day Yerevan Dialogue 2026 conference, currently under way in the Armenian capital. During the visit, Yilmaz met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. An agreement was then signed to jointly restore an ancient bridge located on the Türkiye-Armenia border as part of the ongoing normalisation process launched in 2022.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered Iran's armed forces to respond to any threat immediately and without geographical li...
Cryptocurrencies are volatile, and their crashes make headlines. But does a slump in digital coins ever spill over into the pounds, dollars and eur...
Deep divisions over Russia's war in Ukraine overshadowed a G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on Friday, as European officials criti...
The Middle East conflict remains tense as diplomatic efforts continue alongside renewed Houthi attacks. Iran says it remains open to mediation, while the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the kingdom.
Evacuations and the provision of humanitarian aid in the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky have begun, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. In a statement on Telegram, David Arakhamia said a six-day ceasefire was holding, and that more details would follow.
Rescuers searched the wreckage of two high-speed trains in central Spain on Thursday as the death toll rose to a provisional 74, making it the country's second fatal high-speed rail disaster this year.
Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday as part of efforts to reach a deal between the U.S. and Iran, according to an official briefed on the talks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia remains willing to rebuild relations with European countries but warned that any wider conflict on the continent would leave no winners, as he commented on recent diplomatic contacts with Nordic leaders and growing security concerns in the Baltic region.
Deep divisions over Russia's war in Ukraine overshadowed a G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on Friday, as European officials criticised Moscow's participation and refused to join a traditional group photograph with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The U.S. has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine in a deal worth an estimated $2.1 billion, but Kyiv could face years of delays before receiving the weapons it urgently needs to defend against intensifying Russian attacks.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global body responsible for monitoring money laundering and terrorist financing risks, has removed four countries from its so-called “grey list” after determining they had made sufficient progress in addressing weaknesses in their financial cr
The death toll from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 5,000, according to government figures released on Friday, as health authorities continue to struggle to contain the country's worst-ever Ebola epidemic.
A hacking group linked to North Korea is widely believed to be behind the theft of $6.3 billion from cryptocurrency giant Binance, a cyberattack that experts describe as the largest cryptocurrency heist on record.
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