International from Tuesday, June 9th, 2026

NASA on Tuesday named three US astronauts and an Italian astronaut to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth's orbit that will test landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for the first time in space.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight and vowed to respond, but gave no other details.

Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least eight people, the Lebanese health ministry said, after an Israeli evacuation order for the entire city was issued for the first time.

Kenyan police fired tear gas on Tuesday and detained protesters demonstrating against a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the US has raced to build despite Kenyan court orders barring further work.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China's Xi Jinping agreed to expand cooperation in the areas of politics, economy and culture at a summit in Pyongyang that opened a new chapter in ties, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Tuesday.

In a first, a Navy surface drone found and rescued two crew members from an Army Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman's coast, the US military told Reuters, and President Donald Trump said the pilots were 'fine'.

Rescuers have searched the rubble of a collapsed building on Tuesday in the southern Philippine city of General Santos, the worst hit by a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds, to reach two people still believed to be trapped inside.

Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed three people, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, while Russia-annexed Crimea said it was repelling drone attacks.

A historically strong earthquake has struck off Cuba's northwest coast on Monday, according to official reports, shaking parts of Cuba, Mexico and Florida that are typically not prone to quakes.

Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed on Monday that Ebola deaths had climbed to 101, with a total of 550 recorded cases as the presence of armed groups continues to hinder the response in its hardest-hit province.