Rescuers pulled four people from a flooded cave in Laos, Thai volunteer rescuers said, hours after ‌another man was brought out.

U.S. Defence Secretary ​Pete Hegseth urged Asian allies to ramp up military spending to counter China’s growing power and prevent its dominance in the region, warning of “rightful alarm” ‌over its rapid military buildup.

Thousands of local residents shut down Austria’s Brenner motorway.

The World Health Organisation chief travelled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit ‌by an Ebola outbreak, urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials as officials scramble to contain the fatal disease.

The U.S. is ready to restart attacks on Iran if a deal cannot be reached, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ​said on Saturday, as negotiators from Washington and Tehran worked ‌to bridge major differences blocking an agreement.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he ​would soon decide on a proposed deal to extend the ceasefire with Iran, though the two countries still appeared to differ on significant issues ‌that have been central to the conflict.

A U.S. immigration agent was arrested in Texas on Friday, nearly two ‌weeks after a Minnesota prosecutor took the unusual step of charging him with assaulting a Venezuelan man in a non-fatal shooting in Minneapolis this year.

A Kenyan court has ordered the temporary suspension of ​a plan for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country after a lawsuit argued the ‌site could endanger public health.

A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis, with Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab paying the largest amount at $9 million, according to records ​seen by Reuters on Friday that reveal the settlement’s financial terms for the first time.

A U.S. ​judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from setting up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate ‌victims of what Trump has called government “weaponization.”

The United Nations on Friday added Israel and Russia to a U.N. blacklist of countries suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, a move that prompted Israel’s foreign ministry to say ​it would sever all ties with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

A team of ‌specialist divers said they pulled one man from a flooded cave in central Laos on Friday, as four more people remained trapped with two others still missing.