## [2026-05-19](/feed/2026/05/19/index.md)

##### 2026 FIFA World Cup
### [Hosts United States will allow the DR Congo soccer team to participate in the upcoming World Cup despite ebola concerns. ](/feed/2026/05/19/hosts-united-states-will-allow-the-dr-congo-soccer-team-to-participate-in-the-upcoming-world-cup-despite-ebola-concerns.md)
##### 2026 Bolivian protests
### [Several banks close in La Paz as protests intensify across the country, with demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. The US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expresses solidarity with Paz, calling the protests a "coup". ](/feed/2026/05/19/several-banks-close-in-la-paz-as-protests-intensify-across-the-country-with-demonstrators-demanding-the-resignation-of.md)
##### Reactions to the 2026 Iran war
### [The War Powers Resolution, requiring a halt to hostilities in Iran not approved by the United States Congress, passes a preliminary vote in the U.S. Senate by 50–47 after the defection of Louisiana Republican senator Bill Cassidy. The vote comes after previous attempts failed. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-war-powers-resolution-requiring-a-halt-to-hostilities-in-iran-not-approved-by-the-united-states-congress-passes-a.md)
##### Constitutional crisis in Somalia
### [Opposition coalition Somali Future Council says Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud can no longer perform key presidential functions, including military oversight or dismissing government officials. They propose that parliamentary speaker Aden Madobe serve as acting president until elections scheduled for 30 June. The president has lost full executive authority following the expiry of his mandate on 15 May. ](/feed/2026/05/19/opposition-coalition-somali-future-council-says-somali-president-hassan-sheikh-mohamud-can-no-longer-perform-key-preside.md)
##### Vietnam
### [Vietnamese police arrest five Chinese nationals and a local accused of operating a gold smuggling network in Hanoi that allegedly traded more than US$45 million worth of gold. ](/feed/2026/05/19/vietnamese-police-arrest-five-chinese-nationals-and-a-local-accused-of-operating-a-gold-smuggling-network-in-hanoi-that.md)
##### Catalonia
### [Catalonian police arrest Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango founder Isak Andic, as part of an investigation into Isak's death during a hiking trip to Collbató in 2024. ](/feed/2026/05/19/catalonian-police-arrest-jonathan-andic-the-son-of-mango-founder-isak-andic-as-part-of-an-investigation-into-isak-s-de.md)
##### Corruption in Spain
### [Former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is charged with money laundering and membership of a criminal organisation in connection with an investigation into the alleged laundering of the €53 million public bailout that incumbent prime minister Pedro Sánchez's second government provided to the airline Plus Ultra and La Liga Airlines in 2021. ](/feed/2026/05/19/former-spanish-prime-minister-jose-luis-rodriguez-zapatero-is-charged-with-money-laundering-and-membership-of-a-criminal.md)
##### Cabinet of Thailand
### [The cabinet of Thailand approves plans to reduce the length of visa-free stays for travelers from more than 90 countries as part of measures targeting crimes involving foreign nationals. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-cabinet-of-thailand-approves-plans-to-reduce-the-length-of-visa-free-stays-for-travelers-from-more-than-90-countries.md)
##### Israel–Somaliland relations
### [Somaliland announces that the country will open an embassy in Jerusalem to strengthen its ties with Israel, for now the only country to recognize Somaliland as an independent nation. Israel announces that it will reciprocrate by opening an embassy in Hargeisa. ](/feed/2026/05/19/somaliland-announces-that-the-country-will-open-an-embassy-in-jerusalem-to-strengthen-its-ties-with-israel-for-now-the.md)
##### 2023–2026 mpox epidemic
### [Thailand reports two cases of mpox, prompting the Department of Disease Control to increase surveillance of the disease. ](/feed/2026/05/19/thailand-reports-two-cases-of-mpox-prompting-the-department-of-disease-control-to-increase-surveillance-of-the-disease.md)
##### 2026 Ebola epidemic
### [The Public Health Agency of Canada says that Canada is not banning travel to Uganda or DR Congo despite Ebola concerns. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-public-health-agency-of-canada-says-that-canada-is-not-banning-travel-to-uganda-or-dr-congo-despite-ebola-concerns.md)
### [Sudan begins implementing Ebola measures, including screening passengers at the international airport in Port Sudan. ](/feed/2026/05/19/sudan-begins-implementing-ebola-measures-including-screening-passengers-at-the-international-airport-in-port-sudan.md)
### [The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo rises to 131. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-death-toll-in-the-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-rises-to-131.md)
##### Pickup truck
### [The death toll from a pickup truck crash in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Guangxi, China, rises to ten after the bodies of nine missing people were recovered. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-death-toll-from-a-pickup-truck-crash-in-huanjiang-maonan-autonomous-county-guangxi-china-rises-to-ten-after-the-b.md)
##### Guizhou
### [Ten people are killed in torrential rain and flooding in Guizhou, Hubei, and Hunan provinces, China. ](/feed/2026/05/19/ten-people-are-killed-in-torrential-rain-and-flooding-in-guizhou-hubei-and-hunan-provinces-china.md)
##### 2026 California wildfires
### [At least 10,000 homes are evacuated amid spreading wildfires in Santa Rosa Island and Simi Valley, California, United States. ](/feed/2026/05/19/at-least-10000-homes-are-evacuated-amid-spreading-wildfires-in-santa-rosa-island-and-simi-valley-california-united-st.md)
##### Sudanese civil war
### [The Sudanese Emergency Lawyers reports that 28 people have been killed in a drone strike on a market in West Kordofan, Sudan. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-sudanese-emergency-lawyers-reports-that-28-people-have-been-killed-in-a-drone-strike-on-a-market-in-west-kordofan-s.md)
##### Boko Haram insurgency
### [U.S. African Command says that U.S. and Nigerian forces have launched airstrikes on a ISIS camp in Nigeria. ](/feed/2026/05/19/us-african-command-says-that-us-and-nigerian-forces-have-launched-airstrikes-on-a-isis-camp-in-nigeria.md)
##### Middle Eastern crisis
### [Israel has seized control of approximately 1,000 square kilometers of territory across the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria, an area equivalent to roughly 5 percent of Israel's landmass. ](/feed/2026/05/19/israel-has-seized-control-of-approximately-1000-square-kilometers-of-territory-across-the-gaza-strip-lebanon-and-syri.md)
### [A Syrian soldier is killed and at least twelve others are injured in a car bomb explosion in Damascus. ](/feed/2026/05/19/a-syrian-soldier-is-killed-and-at-least-twelve-others-are-injured-in-a-car-bomb-explosion-in-damascus.md)
### [The Israeli Navy intercepts a flotilla boat taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla that was to be headed for the Gaza Strip in a effort to break the blockade. ](/feed/2026/05/19/the-israeli-navy-intercepts-a-flotilla-boat-taking-part-in-the-global-sumud-flotilla-that-was-to-be-headed-for-the-gaza.md)
### [Israeli airstrikes kill 19 people and injure 34 in the Nabatieh District and the Tyre District, Lebanon. ](/feed/2026/05/19/israeli-airstrikes-kill-19-people-and-injure-34-in-the-nabatieh-district-and-the-tyre-district-lebanon.md)
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