Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, has summed up where things stand: “Since the ceasefire came into effect, both Washington and Tehran appear to be operating under the illusion that time is on their side,” he said. “Each seems to believe that the blockade and counter-blockade in the Strait of Hormuz impose greater costs on the other, while offering a breathing space to regroup for a possible resumption of hostilities,” Vaez told Al Jazeera.

On Wednesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued a fresh warning amid this ongoing standoff, warning that the Middle East war will extend beyond the region if the United States and Israel resume their attacks.

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“If the aggression against Iran is repeated, the promised regional war will this time spread far beyond the region, and our devastating blows will crush you,” the IRGC says in the statement published on their website, Sepah News.

The warring sides are no closer to getting back to the negotiating table, after President Trump has given just a few ‘days’ to comply on the nuclear issue, which so far, Tehran has not budged on.

But in the meantime, Iran still sees American guarantees as “insufficient” regarding a renewed war, Al Arabiya reports Wednesday. The Supreme Leader, who is still in hiding and believed to be recovering from serious injuries that resulted from prior airstrikes, has issued a fresh written message to the public:

Mojtaba Khamenei has commemorated the second anniversary of the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, saying the country is putting up a “unique historical resistance against two global terrorist armies” in Israel and the US, the Fars News Agency reports. 

In another written statement, Khamenei said the war was making the burden on officials “heavier than before”, adding that he was grateful for the “unity of the nation”.

In the Strait of Hormuz, there’s been a continued trickle of tankers making it through, reportedly after Beijing asked:

Two Chinese tankers laden with oil exited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, shipping data showed, brightening hopes that the US-Israeli conflict with Iran may soon be ​resolved after positive comments from the US president and his deputy.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the war would be over “very quickly” while Vice President JD Vance talked up progress in talks with Tehran about an agreement to end hostilities.

And reports of a South Korean tanker safely traversing at this point:

A South Korean oil tanker is currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, in a report from AFP.

“At this very moment, our oil tanker is passing through the Strait of Hormuz,” Foreign Minister Cho Hyun told lawmakers at the National Assembly in Seoul.

Ship-tracking site MarineTraffic showed the South Korea-flagged tanker Universal Winner on the eastern side of the Strait of Hormuz near the entrance to the Gulf of Oman, bound for the southeastern South Korean city of Ulsan after departing Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi port.

As a reminder of prior Trump threats this week, and the typically vague timetable, the president on Tuesday renewed warnings that he could imminently resume bombing Iran, declaring the country will face a “big hit” if it refuses to accept US demands for a deal within days.

“Well, I mean, I’m saying two or three days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something, maybe early next week, a limited period of time, because we can’t let them have a new nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters. Trump had said the day prior that he was “holding off” on striking Iran after requests from Gulf Arab states. Then he followed by claiming the attack was moments away from being launched. “We were all set to go… It would have been happening right now.”

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More latest developments via Newsquawk:

• A US intelligence assessment recently showed that US forces identified at least 10 mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to CBS, citing US officials.
• The US Senate voted 50-47 to advance a war powers resolution that would end US strikes on Iran unless approved by Congress.
• Iran’s IRGC said that if the attack on Iran occurs again, the war will extend beyond the region, Fars News reported.
• Iranian Deputy to the President Banah said Tehran is open to negotiations within national interests, Al Mayadeen reported.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said months after the start of the war with Iran, the US Congress acknowledged the loss of dozens of aircraft worth billions, and Iran’s powerful Armed Forces are confirmed as the first to strike down a touted F-35, while he added that with lessons learned and the knowledge they gained, a return to war will feature many more surprises.
• Iran-Pakistan cooperation had declined/stopped over the past two weeks, Al Arabiya and Al Hadath reported, citing a senior diplomatic source. A diplomatic source says Iran and Pakistan held conflicting positions on negotiation channels and the venue for talks, and says mistrust was affecting coordination between Iran and Pakistan.
• Pakistan’s Interior Minister Naqvi is en route to Tehran, according to Journalist Mallick.
• “On the verge of a decision: Trump and Netanyahu held a phone conversation last night that was described as “lengthy and dramatic,” according to journalist Segal.
• Two Chinese supertankers, carrying 4mln barrels of oil, exited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to tracking data. It was later reported that India was preparing to send oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz following prior reports regarding the Chinese tankers.

“I am deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the World Health Assembly on May 19th, according to a report by TODAY.com. 

The Ebola Scare Begins: The Worst Outbreak Of Bundibugyo Virus Disease In World History

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an entry ban for foreign travelers who’ve visited DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan in the last 21 days, and said it plans to ramp up screenings for anyone returning from Ebola-affected countries.

There have been only a couple of previous Bundibugyo outbreaks: one in Uganda in 2007 and one in Congo in 2012. The fatality rate during those incidents ranged from 30% to 50%, according to the WHO.

The reason health officials are more concerned about the Ebola virus than the hantavirus is twofold. “This outbreak was already quite large when it was detected, which is concerning because the virus has had weeks to spread unimpeded,” Caitlin Rivers, Ph.D., director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, tells TODAY.com.

The virus has also already spread across borders, Jodie Guest, Ph.D, senior vice chair of epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, said.

By comparison, the hantavirus is much more contained.

Canada Confirms A “Presumptive Positive” Test For Hantavirus

The current trends “point towards a potentially much larger outbreak than what is being detected,” the WHO said of the Ebola outbreak.

Another problem is also plaguing the response to the Ebola outbreak. A humanitarian crisis and recent population displacement in the region may hinder health officials’ ability to contain the outbreak. “The Bundibugyo outbreak is unfolding in a difficult setting, a remote area troubled by conflict,” Rivers says.

Officials did say that while the outbreak is alarming, it’s unlikely to trigger a pandemic. “The risk to the general population in the U.S. is extremely low, and we don’t have any cases here right now,” says Guest.

At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 to have been infected, central African health authorities say. An American missionary was among those who tested positive, accoridng to a report by NBC News. 

The number of suspected cases has risen dramatically from the 300 believed infected and 88 killed as of Monday.

The Ebola Scare Begins: The Worst Outbreak Of Bundibugyo Virus Disease In World History

This outbreak went undetected for weeks, allowing the virus to continue to spread and deaths to coalesce.

Global health experts are worried about the capacity of this outbreak to cause widespread illness and death in central Africa, not least because this rare strain of Ebola, the Bundibugyo virus, has no approved vaccine or treatment and a shortage of available tests.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said early Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic.” This comes as the United States State Department also said in a statement on Tuesday that the U.S. will fund up to 50 Ebola response clinics.

“The United States is committing to rapidly supporting the Ebola outbreak response by funding up to 50 treatment clinics, and associated frontline costs being established in Ebola-affected regions of the DRC and Uganda,” the State Department said of the outbreak. “This U.S. funding commitment will accelerate the delivery of frontline medical care, life-saving humanitarian assistance, and critical outbreak response capabilities to communities at greatest risk,” it added.

The State Department also stated that it was “strongly” urging Americans not to travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, or Uganda “for any reason.”

Unfortunately, cases of Ebola have been reported as far away as the rebel-held city of Goma, 230 miles from the outbreak’s epicenter in the eastern Ituri province, as well as in neighboring Uganda.

The WHO has already declared this outbreak a global “emergency.”

WHO Declares A Global Ebola “Emergency”

The Trump administration sent troops to Nigeria back in February in what was described as an “advisory and training role”, though the recent operations indicate a more active role for the US military in the African nation.

The latest strikes come days after Abuja and Washington announced that a joint military operation in the Lake Chad Basin killed senior Islamic State commander Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, who US President Donald Trump described as the group’s global second-in-command. –RT

On Tuesday, the Nigerian military stated that these strikes were conducted over the past few days. It added that the joint operation destroyed weapons, checkpoints, and financial networks across the region. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed the operation and said no American or Nigerian troops were harmed during the attacks.

“The removal of these terrorists diminishes the group’s capacity to plan attacks that threaten the safety and security of the U.S. and our partners,” AFRICOM said in a statement. Nigerian military spokesman Samaila Uba said one of the senior leaders of ISWAP “eliminated from the battlefield” was Abd-al Wahhab, who was responsible for “coordinating attacks and distributing propaganda.” ISWAP senior member Abu Musa al-Mangawi, and Abu al-Muthanna al-Muhajir, who leads the group’s media production team, were also killed, according to Uba.

According to a report by RT, Washington increased its military cooperation with Abuja after a diplomatic row over Trump’s claims that Christians were being killed in large numbers in Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria denied allegations of a “Christian genocide,” saying armed groups target people of all faiths, while Trump said he was considering military options, including airstrikes, to stop the alleged killings.

The US also warned of terrorist attacks in Nigeria back in March.

U.S. Warns of Terrorist Attacks In Nigeria

In a huge and unexpected announcement, amid stalled US-Iran peace talks, which have proven a failure and elusive thus far, NATO now says it could deploy military assets to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Per breaking newswires Tuesday late morning:

NATO TO CONSIDER HORMUZ DEPLOYMENT IF STRAIT NOT OPEN BY JULY

President Trump has continuously chastised the NATO alliance for being largely bankrolled by Washington, but at the same time, fence-sitting when it comes to forming a coalition to patrol and reopen the vital energy transit waterway. Oil plummeted on the initial headline, seeing in it a positive for the potential that crude transit in the Persian Gulf could again be opened up soon:

And Bloomberg freshly reports:

NATO is discussing the possibility of helping ships pass through the blocked Strait of Hormuz if the waterway isn’t reopened by early July, according to a senior official in the military alliance.

The idea has support from several members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but doesn’t yet have the necessary unanimous support, said a diplomat from a NATO country. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity. Leaders from NATO countries will meet in Ankara July 7-8.

But July feels very far away at this point, and anything could happen between now and then, as Washington continues to threaten renewed military action, and Iran says it remains on high alert.

NATO defense chiefs are meeting this week, where also be high on the agenda:

At this week’s summit, military chiefs from all 32 member states will examine the impact that consistent rapid consumption may have on NATO’s collective capabilities and deterrent power as Russia continues to threaten allies.

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The Truth About What Is Really Going On In The Strait Of Hormuz

Annual US public spending has been in deficit for decades. As a result, total US debt continues to increase year after year with no end in sight. The end may not be in sight, but the debt cannot continue to grow forever. We just don’t know when markets will shed the dollar, although the process may already be underway. In this brief essay, I will not point out all the disastrous consequences except that they are disastrous and will happen. Rather, I will point out how we got to this sorry state of affairs when it appears that other nations, such as China and Russia, have done a much better job of controlling public spending.

Gold Standard Takes the Blame

The main, and most obvious, reason that American spending has been in chronic deficit is that it abandoned the gold standard and appears to have no intention of reinstating it. Such is not the case with China and Russia. True, neither country is on the gold standard now, but both have been quietly accumulating gold for many years. Nor has either announced their respective total gold holdings or when and under what circumstances either would be prompted to tie their currencies to gold. Nevertheless, it is clear that both nations have a greater respect for gold than the US and appear to be preparing for its return, at least for settling international trade accounts.

For millennia, gold and occasionally silver were considered to be true money. Nations did go off the gold standard in times of war, but most quickly returned to a gold standard after the end of exceptionally high military spending. All nations, except the US, went off the gold standard in World War I, but eventually returned. The British returned to a gold standard in the 1920’s, but the monetary authorities made a glaring mistake. The British had increased the money supply by approximately double during the war, which made it almost impossible to return to the pre-war pound-to-gold ratio, but they did it anyway. This caused a severe recession in Great Britain as it required a drop in prices of 50 percent.

Labor contracts could not be honored, and strikes ensued. Gold flowed out of the country, which Fed Chairman Benjamin Strong tried to ameliorate by inflating the dollar surreptitiously. This was but one factor that caused the US stock market crash and led to a sharp recession. Instead of ceasing monetary intervention and allowing business and prices to adjust, as was the policy of President Harding after WWI, first Hoover and then Roosevelt tried to cartelize the economy via price controls. The Great Depression followed. The gold standard took the blame for this debacle instead of Hoover/Roosevelt. In fact, it is a very common myth that Roosevelt’s New Deal saved America. Such is the economic ignorance perpetuated.

Corrupting the People through Welfare

Secondly, in a gradual process, the government became responsible for the people’s welfare, displacing the family and local friendly societies. The first large program was Social Security, truly the camel’s nose under the tent. Roosevelt sold the program to the citizens and to Congress using different rationales. To the public, he claimed that the program was no different than a private annuity. The government took the people’s forced contributions, deposited them into earmarked accounts, and then distributed them plus interest to taxpayers upon reaching a certain age. Of course, the US Constitution enumerates no power to Congress to run a forced annuity program. So Congress and Roosevelt sold the program as merely a spending program, one of many. Social Security was never intended to replace the individual as primarily responsible for his own retirement income. It was sold as a supplement. Yet today 22 million Americans retire with no income stream except Social Security. This represents almost 40 percent of retirees. Obviously, the concept of moral hazard is unknown to the government.

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society

The US remained on the gold standard throughout the immediate post-WWII decades until Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society welfare programs started to take their financial toll. Johnson wanted to “finish the job” of his hero, Roosevelt’s New Deal. Johnson’s Great Society welfare binge is well documented. But the main effect, in my humble opinion, is that it cemented in people’s minds that government is responsible for what had always been one’s individual responsibility; i.e., to look after oneself and one’s family, especially financially. Live within one’s means, save for a rainy day, a penny saved is a penny earned; these once-common bits of wisdom are seldom heard today. When was the last time a politician said that it was the individual’s responsibility to provide for his many needs, including retirement? And let’s not turn a blind eye to the cultural damage, such as the rise of out-of-wedlock births.

FRED Statistics Tell the Sad Tale

By the early 1970’s, the drain on America’s gold supply from the spending requirements of the War in Vietnam and welfare forced the government to take action to stop the gold drain. Of course, it took the wrong action. Instead of accepting the humiliation of devaluing the dollar against gold and promising to be more fiscally responsible in the future, President Nixon “temporarily suspended” gold redemption by foreign central banks. Now, the government was completely free to print money, and print money it did!

The monetary base rose from $85 billion in the fall of 1971 to $5,388 billion in February 2026, an increase of 63 times, with no end in sight. This largess has caused the annual budget deficit to rise from approximately $3 billion in 1971 to a projected $1.8 trillion this fiscal year, an increase of six hundred times! In fact, President Trump wants another half trillion dollars per year for the military alone, and he’ll probably get it. Over the same time frame, total US debt has risen from $424 billion to $38.5 trillion, an increase of ninety-one times.

Conclusion: The Corrupting Effects of Welfare-Warfare Spending

The factors that have driven uncontrollable US public spending are easy to see and difficult to change. The primary factor is the loss of respect for gold. In the 1920’s, the Fed surreptitiously inflated the US money supply to help alleviate Great Britain’s error in reinstating its own gold standard at too few pounds per gold ounce. This error was compounded by Hoover and Roosevelt in unprecedented and fruitless interventions that stifled the US recovery. Social Security legislation was the first welfare program that has steadily corrupted the populace into ceding personal financial responsibility to the government. Welfare spending—when added to warfare spending—has led to massive annual federal deficits that are papered over, so to speak, by newly-printed money. The FRED statistics tell the sorry tale.

Global health authorities are extremely concerned about an outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The death toll has already reached triple digits, and new cases have been detected hundreds of miles away from the original outbreak. BVD is a type of Ebola disease, but unlike other types of Ebola, there is no effective treatment, and there is no cure.

The incubation period can range from 2 to 21 days, and once you are infected, you will either live or you will die. For those who do not recover, it can be an absolutely excruciating death. Unfortunately, we are being told that the death rate for BVD is somewhere between 30 and 50 percent, and the WHO has already designated the outbreak that we are witnessing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a “public health emergency of international concern”.

Normally, outbreaks of Ebola are not a huge concern because doctors have highly effective tools that they can use to fight it.

But BVD is an entirely different story.

There is not much that health authorities can do about BVD except to contain it and hope that an outbreak eventually burns out.

In this case, that may not be so easy for a couple of reasons.

First of all, there are already hundreds of cases, and the death toll has now reached the triple-digit mark…

At least 100 deaths have been reported in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 390 cases suspected, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has told the BBC.

Jean Kaseya warned that with no approved drugs or vaccines people should follow public health measures, including at funerals of Ebola victims.

Secondly, this outbreak has already spread hundreds of miles from where it originally started…

Most cases are in Congo’s eastern Ituri province but it has since been found some 600 miles away in the capital, Kinshasa, and in Uganda, meaning officials do not have a clear idea of how far it might have spread.

The cat is out of the bag, and people are starting to freak out.

On Monday, it was being widely reported that a U.S. doctor is among the confirmed cases…

An American doctor in the DR Congo is among those with a confirmed case, the medical missionary group they were working with and the CDC has said.

The individual, who has not been named, will now be taken to Germany for treatment, they told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.

CBS News also quoted sources as saying that at least six Americans have been exposed to the Ebola virus during the outbreak in the DR Congo.

If authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had identified this outbreak very early, they would have had a much better chance of extinguishing it before it became a major problem.

Obviously, that did not happen, and now we are being told that we have a “global health emergency” on our hands…

As soon as Ebola was identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda late last week, the severity of the outbreak was clear. There were already hundreds of suspected cases and dozens of suspected deaths.

Shortly after the outbreak was announced, the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency.

But by then, the virus had already been circulating for weeks.

This crisis is not going to be easy to resolve.

In fact, a former member of the Obama administration is openly admitting that this outbreak “has a lot of momentum”…

That delay has allowed the virus to spread, says Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and former director of the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance during the Obama administration. “This outbreak has a lot of momentum.”

Let’s just hope that BVD doesn’t start spreading outside of central Africa.

According to Politico, a decision has just been made to impose entry restrictions upon any foreign individuals who have traveled to Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or South Sudan within the last 21 days…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suspending entry into the U.S. for 30 days for travelers who have visited areas where there is an ongoing outbreak of the Ebola virus, the agency announced on Monday. That restriction does not apply to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals or lawful permanent residents returning from Ebola outbreak areas.

In a statement posted to its website, the agency said it would impose “entry restrictions” on passengers who do not hold a U.S. passport if they have been to Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or South Sudan in the previous 21 days. Those restrictions, issued under a Title 42 order, a policy that allows the U.S. to deny certain individuals entry into the country to protect public health, will be in effect for one month.

If this disease gets loose and starts spreading around the world, the level of panic that we will see will be off the charts.

There is no approved treatment or cure, and the death rate for BVD is extremely high…

The outbreak has been identified as a rare type of Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus. Spread by bodily fluids, Ebola is highly contagious and often fatal — killing between 30% and 50% of those it infects — and causing symptoms such as fever, rash and vomiting, the WHO said.

Unlike other types of Ebola, Bundibugyo has no approved vaccine or treatment.

The CDC has advised travelers who visited the affected countries recently to seek immediate medical attention if they develop fever, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea or unexplained bleeding.

There have only been two other outbreaks of BVD in our entire history.

In both of those cases, the death toll never even came close to 100…

Before this outbreak, there were two known outbreaks caused by the Bundibugyo virus, and both were smaller than the current one.

The first discovery of the Bundibugyo strain occurred in the Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007. There were 149 cases and 37 deaths in that outbreak, The Associated Press reported.

The second known outbreak was in Congo in 2012, with 57 cases and 29 deaths reported, according to the AP.

BVD is not supposed to spread easily.

But somehow, hundreds of people have already gotten infected during this outbreak.

Hopefully, we will soon learn whether this is the exact same version of BVD that caused the previous two outbreaks.

If it isn’t, that would be extremely alarming.

Interestingly, in January 2026, work began on vaccine candidates that scientists are hoping will be effective against “Bundibugyo and other strains of Ebola”…

In January this year, the University of Oxford announced that, in collaboration with partners including Moderna, it was working on vaccine candidates that would target multiple filoviruses – a group of RNA viruses that can cause lethal haemorrhagic fevers – including Bundibugyo and other strains of Ebola, as well as Marburg viruses.

Now, Esterman says that in light of the new crisis, this work must be brought forward. “The current outbreak makes a compelling case for accelerating this work,” he says. “We’ve known Bundibugyo exists for nearly two decades, yet we still lack vaccine options. This outbreak shows the real cost of that gap.”

Can you imagine the level of fear that a global hemorrhagic disease pandemic would create?

We have seen the panic that a disease with an extremely low death rate can cause.

So what would happen if people started dropping dead from an extremely painful and bloody disease that has an exceedingly high death rate?

It really would be a horror show.

So let us hope that authorities can get on top of this outbreak while they still can, because it certainly wouldn’t take much for a major worldwide frenzy to erupt.

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The Axios report claimed that Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones since 2023 and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, and possibly Key West, Florida, which is only 90 miles north of Havana. Axios cited a classified intelligence source.

“Certain media outlets are playing along, spreading slanderous claims and publishing insinuations leaked by the US government,” the minister said.

Rodriguez Parrilla described the Axios report as an attempt to concoct a “fraudulent case to justify the ruthless economic war against the Cuban people and, eventually, military aggression.” He added that Cuba “neither threatens nor desires war.”

US ruler Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Cuba in recent months, saying it could become the next target of the US, once they are done with Iran. Back in March, Trump declared that he would eventually have “the honor of taking Cuba.”

Trump: “I Do Believe I’ll Be…Having The Honor of Taking Cuba”

The Cuban ruling class responded, saying that they are not afraid of war.

Cuba Responds To Trump’s War Mongering: We Are “Not Afraid Of War”

The US has already imposed an oil embargo on the Caribbean island in February, prompting blackouts and fuel shortages, and has repeatedly threatened military action.

Cuba Seeks End To Energy Blockade

A senior US official told Axios that the White House views Cuba’s potential use of drones as “a growing threat,” even though the report further stated that currently, the US doesn’t really see Cuba as a viable problem just yet. The US does not fear that Cuba is planning an imminent attack.

But the war mongering continues.

Red Cross volunteers have already been going door-to-door to share health information. They are also helping to identify suspected cases, support contact tracing, and combat misinformation surrounding the outbreak.

The DRC and Uganda confirmed their first Ebola cases on Friday. On the same day, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) stated that 13 out of 20 tested samples had returned positive for the virus.

The WHO warned that the outbreak could already be spreading beyond what surveillance systems are catching, while stopping short of labeling the situation a “pandemic emergency.”

According to WHO data, at least eight laboratory-confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases, and 80 suspected deaths have been recorded in DR Congo’s eastern Ituri Province, while Uganda confirmed two imported cases in Kampala. Both patients in Uganda had recently traveled from the DR Congo and were admitted to intensive care units. –RT

Health officials familiar with the outbreak stated that unusual clusters of deaths and infections among medical workers point to possible widespread community transmission and serious “gaps” in hospital infection control.

It’s Back: How to Prep for Ebola 2.0

The Zaire strain of Ebola is more common than the currently circulating Bundibugyo virus. There are currently no approved vaccines or targeted treatments for the Bundibugyo virus. “As such, this event is considered extraordinary,” health officials said.

Bundibugyo virus is a rare strain of Ebola first identified in Uganda in 2007. Scientists believe it is naturally carried by fruit bats and can spread to humans through contact with infected animals before transmitting between people through bodily fluids.

This outbreak marked the 17th recorded Ebola epidemic in the DRC since the virus was first identified there in 1976.

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR HOME (QUARANTINE) FOR A PANDEMIC

The US is demanding that Iran accept the most recent deal, or else it will unleash an attack. Trump said the strike had been scheduled for Tuesday, but that he had ordered the Pentagon to stand down for now after Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and “some others” urged him to allow more time for diplomacy.

The Department of War is still on standby, however, awaiting orders to attack with a full-scale assault unless Tehran accepts a deal on Washington’s terms, according to a report by RT.

“We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow,” Trump told journalists. “I’ve put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we’ve had very big discussions with Iran.”

Trump claimed that the US and Iran are getting very close to making a deal. The US has long maintained that any peace agreement will include the banning of Iran’s development of nuclear weapons.

Trump added that the assault will occur “at a moment’s notice” if Iran chooses to not accept the terms.

The announcement follows a series of threats by Trump, who warned Iran over the weekend that “the Clock is Ticking” and that “there won’t be anything left” of the country unless it accepts Washington’s demands. –RT

Trump To Iran: The Clock is Ticking

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has insisted that “dialogue does not mean surrender,” promising in a post on X on Monday that Tehran would defend “the interests and honor of Iran” with “all our might.”

US & Israel Prepare To Attack Iran Next Week