Here’s where things stand on Saturday, May 31: Fighting Eight people, including two teenagers, were injured in a Russian attack on the village of Vasyliv Khutir in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched 90 drones and two ballistic missiles against Ukraine that targeted the country’s Kharkiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions. The Kharkiv region’s main city came under Russian...

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement of protest against the head of the United States mission to the island, Michael Hammer. In a news release published on Friday, the Foreign Ministry accused Hammer, a career diplomat, of “unfriendly and meddling behaviour” since his arrival to Cuba in late 2024. “By inciting Cuban citizens to commit extremely serious criminal acts, attacking the constitutional order, or encouraging them to...