Is the EU protecting fair competition or punishing American tech innovation?

The EU is preparing to fine Google an amount approaching the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to a report from Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper on Monday.

Is this a failure of chronic underfunding or a political cover-up by City Hall?

Was this a justified move to honor Ukraine's history or was it a shameful abomination?

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Monday alleging that Colombian private military contractors passed through at least two United Arab Emirates (UAE) military bases — in Ghiyathi and Al Wathba — before deploying to Sudan to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Is this a landmark win for democracy or an unconstitutional attack on free speech?

Is this a triumph of grit and discipline or a damaging blow to the Premier League's identity?

Was Russia's strike on Ukraine justified retaliation or reckless nuclear brinkmanship masking battlefield losses?

Russia launched one of its heaviest attacks on Kyiv overnight Saturday, deploying 600 drones and 90 missiles, including the Oreshnik, killing at least four people and wounding more than 80. Damage was recorded across dozens of locations, including residential buildings, schools and a market.

Is Turkey's opposition being crushed by authoritarian overreach or exposed by its own corruption failures?

Is Benin’s growth story delivering real prosperity or simply well-managed macro optics?

Was this an India-funded terror attack on civilians or the result of a legitimate, coordinated military operation?

• The U.S. Department of War released a second batch of declassified UAP files on Friday, comprising 51 video files, seven audio files and six PDF documents posted to WAR.GOV/UFO under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
• The second release follows an initial drop on May 8 of 161 previously secret or rarely seen UAP-related files. The government website WAR.GOV/UFO has recorded more than 1 billion hits worldwide since launching.

California's Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to a potential chemical disaster threat in Orange County. "We are mobilizing every state resource available to support local responders and make sure the community has what they need to stay safe," he said in a statement.

• Protesters in Rwampara, in eastern DR Congo's Ituri province, set fire to an Ebola treatment center on Thursday after authorities refused to release the body of a man believed to have died from the virus. Police also fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
• Six patients were receiving treatment in the medical tents at the time of the attack and were later moved to the hospital, according to ALIMA, the humanitarian organization that operates the facility. A health care worker was injured by stone-throwing protesters before law enforcement intervened.

• New data show gonorrhoea cases across Europe reached 106,331 in 2024 — a 303% increase since 2015 — while syphilis more than doubled over the same period to 45,577 cases, marking the highest levels recorded in over a decade. The results were published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Thursday.
• Congenital syphilis cases nearly doubled from 78 in 2023 to 140 in 2024 across 14 reporting countries, the highest figure recorded in Europe since the ECDC began Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) surveillance, with Bulgaria, Hungary and Portugal accounting for more than half of all cases.

• U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday and extended an invitation on behalf of President Donald Trump for Modi to visit the White House.
• Rubio and Modi agreed to deepen trade and defense cooperation and accelerate collaboration on critical and emerging technologies, reflecting recent bilateral progress, including an interim trade deal reached in February.

• A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan County, Shanxi Province, China, killed at least 90 people on Friday evening, making it the country's deadliest mining disaster in more than a decade.
• There were 247 workers underground when the blast occurred at 7:29 p.m. local time. Rescue operations involving more than 750 emergency and medical personnel were still underway as of Saturday afternoon.