A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania, its defense ministry said on May 29, wounding two people in a city near the Ukrainian border.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators edged toward a deal to extend their fragile ceasefire for 60 days, but the potential breakthrough was still hanging on President Donald Trump's approval, U.S. sources told AFP on Thursday.

A Vanuatu-flagged Turkish cargo ship sailing from Odesa to Türkiye was hit by a drone, Ukrainian authorities said, as a separate attack targeted three oil tankers off Türkiye’s Black Sea coast.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 28 he had ordered the country's military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October.

Israeli and Russian security forces have been added to a United Nations blacklist on sexual violence in conflict, according to a report reviewed by AFP.