France’s exceptional May heat continued on 27 May as temperatures climbed around 33C in Paris. Many residents headed to the Saint-Martin canal to cool off, despite rules prohibiting swimming in the waterway.

Iranian authorities decided to lift some restrictions this week as negotiators appeared to be closing in on a more permanent truce, but many Iranians now fear access could be cut off again, at a moment’s notice.

A fire at a girls’ boarding school in Kenya has killed 16 students, the government has said.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said earlier on Thursday that its forces had targeted a US airbase.

A record May heatwave sent Irish temperatures above 30C and Portugal’s to 37C, drawing crowds outdoors and renewing worries over climate change.

Russian daytime strike hits the southern port city of Odesa on 27 May, injuring at least 11 including children, and igniting a huge fire that ravages shops and commercial buildings.

An Australian woman has been charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State.

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According to the US Central Command, its forces struck four Iranian one-way attack drones posing a threat around the Strait of Hormuz and a ground control station in Bandar Abbas ‘that was about to launch a fifth drone’.