World roundup: June 2 2026

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You’re reading the web version of Foreign Exchanges. If you’d like to get it delivered straight to your inbox, sign up today:Subscribe nowGiveDirectly is raising funds to help families affected by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If you’re able to contribute, please do so!TODAY IN HISTORYJune 2, 1098: The army of the First Crusade captures Antioch after an extended siege. The Crusaders were subsequently besieged themselves by a Muslim relief army.A 15th century illustration of the siege by French miniaturist Jean Colombe from a manuscript of Sébastien Mamerot’s Les Passages d’Outremer (Wikimedia Commons)June 2, 1896: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi files a British patent application for his radio telegraphy device, titled “Improvements in Transmitting Electrical impulses and Signals, and in Apparatus therefor.” When it was awarded the following year it became the first patent awarded for a communications system utilizing radio waves.MIDDLE EASTLEBANONMonday’s partial reduction in hostilities seems to have held up for at least one day, in that the Israeli military (IDF) didn’t bomb Beirut on Tuesday. It did, however, kill at least 11 people in drone strikes across southern Lebanon, so any hope that Donald Trump cursing at Benjamin Netanyahu was going to lead to an actual ceasefire seems to have been misplaced. Israeli and Lebanese negotiators began another round of talks in Washington on Tuesday but there’s little reason to think this one will be any more beneficial to the Lebanese people than the previous rounds have been.ISRAEL-PALESTINEThe ID…