Global news highlights from AP

June 1, 2026

The Israeli military said Sunday troops captured a strategic mountain topped with a castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest

incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century.

The seizure marked a major Israeli advance in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.

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The World Health Organization reports that five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus in eastern Congo.

The WHO Director announced the recoveries during a visit to Bunia.

The current strain of Ebola, has no approved vaccine or treatment.

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Colombians milled into voting stations in the first round of the South American nation’s presidential election, choosing between

candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict.

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NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor

entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.