In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back.

Fuel storage facilities also caught fire following a Ukraine drone ​attack in Russia’s Yaroslavl ​region, northeast of Moscow, Governor Mikhail ‌Yevrayev ⁠said on Telegram, adding that work to extinguish the fire were ongoing.

The U.S. is setting up a facility in Kenya ​to quarantine U.S. citizens who have been exposed to Ebola, and will not bring them home if they develop symptoms, but instead send them to a third country, ‌the White House said on Thursday.

Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal sees the risk of U.S. military aggression against the island ​growing as negotiations between the nations stagnate, she said ‌on Thursday.

At least 52 guerrilla fighters were killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for control of ​a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in Colombia, a faction of the ‌Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting said in a statement on Thursday.

In a corn field in eastern Ukraine, soldiers fired drones ‌into the sky using a slingshot, aiming at military targets in the country’s Russian-occupied east, dozens of kilometers away.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ​said on Thursday he had directed Israel’s military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the ‌population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast.

The United States and Iran reached an agreement on Thursday to extend their ceasefire and lift restrictions on shipping through ​the Strait of Hormuz, sources told Reuters, though U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to approve it and Iranian state media said it had not been ‌finalized.

Australia’s health minister said the ​quarantine period for repatriated ‌passengers on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a ​hantavirus outbreak will be ​extended to 42 days total ⁠until June 23.

Oil prices jumped more than 3% on Thursday after Iran’s ​Revolutionary Guards said they targeted a U.S. airbase in response ‌to a U.S. attack near Bandar Abbas airport.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S. President Donald Trump to help Ukraine with air ‌defence systems and interceptors as Russia threatens new strikes, saying that ballistic missiles remain Moscow’s “last major advantage on the battlefield.”

Australian businesses are among the most likely to pay a ransom to retrieve or protect stolen information, with more than half admitting they have given money to online criminals.