Friday, May 22, 2026
House Republicans pulled a scheduled vote on a war powers resolution that would have ended the US war with Iran — a move widely read as rescuing Trump from a rare congressional rebuke. The cancellation signals eroding Republican support for the conflict, with a fresh poll showing 60 percent of Americans now oppose the war.
An Ankara court has overturned the leadership election result that put Ozgur Ozel at the head of the Republican People's Party, Turkey's main opposition force. The ruling is the latest in a series of judicial interventions that critics say Erdogan's government has used to weaken political opponents.
Alberta's independence movement has secured a referendum on whether the western province should separate from Canada, a dramatic escalation of years of tension over federal energy and economic policy. The vote poses the most serious constitutional challenge Canada has faced since Quebec's 1995 referendum, which failed by less than one percentage point.
Melanoma diagnoses in the UK have exceeded 20,000 in a single year for the first time, with Cancer Research UK recording 20,980 cases in 2022. Dermatologists link the rise to decades of sunbed use and insufficient sunscreen adoption, with rates climbing steadily despite public health campaigns.
Protesters have set fire to an Ebola treatment hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo as authorities struggle to contain a spreading outbreak. The destruction of medical infrastructure during an active outbreak dramatically worsens containment prospects in one of the world's most under-resourced health systems.
