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US ally answers Trump’s call on Strait of Hormuz: ‘Part of a diplomatic effort’
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UNITED NATIONS: Romania’s foreign minister told Fox News Digital that Bucharest answered the Trump administration’s call for allied support in the Middle East by allowing the use of Romanian military bases for «defensive activities» related to tensions with Iran and efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
«We have allowed for access to defensive activities, such as air refueling, for example, because we do believe allies need to rely on each other,» Romania’s interim Foreign Affairs Minister Oana-Silvia Ţoiu said in an exclusive interview at the United Nations.
«We’re not part of the war, nor do we intend to become part of war, but we are part of an effort to ensure common defense, and we are a part of a diplomatic effort to ensure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,» she said.
Ţoiu’s comments come as President Donald Trump has repeatedly pressed European allies to increase defense spending and take a larger role in global security efforts, including maritime security in the Middle East.
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A container ship sits at anchor as a small motorboat passes in the foreground in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
Ţoiu acknowledged growing tensions between Washington and some European allies over support related to the conflict with Iran, but said both sides recognize the need for closer coordination.
«I’m pretty sure that both on the U.S. side and the European side, we do understand that we need to enhance our dialog in order to prevent moments when we create tension in the transatlantic partnership,» she told Fox News Digital. «And I do believe a better dialog ahead of time on all sides leads to better results, specifically on the request of help in terms of the conflict in the Middle East.»
The Romanian foreign minister said Bucharest approved the use of its military bases and infrastructure for defensive operations linked to regional security efforts.
«Romania has approved through Parliament the proposal of the President, the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry for defense and the prime minister, the use of our military bases and infrastructure for defensive activities, for activities such as air-fuelling, for example, because we are aware of the fact that it is needed that we trust each other,» she said.
«I think we share clear objectives here in Europe, between the U.S. and countries around the world, such as lowering energy prices, such as allowing for fertilizers not to be blocked anymore there.»
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Oana-Silvia Toiu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Romania speaks during emergency Security Council meeting requested by Romania and supported by France after Russian military drone entered Romanian airspace and injuring civilians when exploded at UN Headquarters in New York, NY on June 1, 2026. (Lev Radin/Sipa USA)
Romania, a NATO member bordering Ukraine, has emerged as one of the alliance’s key eastern flank states amid growing concerns over both Russia’s war in Ukraine and instability in the Middle East.
«We do agree with President Trump on the need to increase budgets,» Ţoiu said.
She noted that Romania raised defense spending to 2% of GDP during Trump’s previous term and plans to allocate an average of 3.4% next year through a combination of military procurement and strategic infrastructure investments.
Her remarks came just hours after Romania requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday following a Russian drone strike that hit a residential building in the Romanian city of Galați on May 29.
The emergency briefing marked the first time in Romania’s roughly 70-year history at the United Nations that it requested a Security Council session over a direct threat to its national security, according to Romanian officials.
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Romanian law enforcement officers work at the site of an explosion in a residential block of flats following a reported drone strike near the border with Ukraine, in Galati, Romania, May 29, 2026. (Inquam Photos/George Calin via Reuters)
Speaking at the Security Council, Ţoiu said a drone carrying explosives violated Romanian airspace for approximately four minutes before crashing into the 10th floor of a residential building, injuring a mother and child.
«We do have the military analysis that shows clearly that it is a Russian-made drone in type of design, type of pieces of equipment, and also the chemical analysis that they have done,» she told Fox News Digital.
Ţoiu said the drone was believed to be part of a larger Russian attack targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure near the Danube River.
«We wanted to call on the international community to make sure we collectively state that this is a blatant violation of international law,» she said.
«And irrespective of whether that was the intention or not, the responsibility is very clear. And these reckless escalations need to stop.»
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz meets with Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Ţoiu at U.N. headquarters in New York following an emergency Security Council session on a Russian drone strike in Romania, June 1, 2026. (U.S. Mission to the United Nations)
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya rejected the accusations during the session, calling them «unfounded and biased.»
Nebenzya argued that if a Geran-2 drone had directly hit the building, the damage would have been far more severe, claiming Romanian media footage showed only fire damage rather than complete destruction.
He also called for a «thorough, objective, and depoliticized investigation» involving Russia and suggested the incident could have been a Ukrainian provocation intended to drag NATO deeper into the war.
The U.S. military has been enforcing a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, even during the ceasefire. (U.S. Central Command)
Ţoiu pushed back against Moscow’s position and questioned how a permanent member of the Security Council can simultaneously act as an aggressor state.
«We do now have a question that’s not just a question on Romania’s side, but the question of the international community of how can a member of the Security Council contribute to its mission there, which is peace and security, while also being an aggressor state,» she said.
«And of course, its veto [ is not currently] used towards peace and security.»
The United States joined more than 50 countries backing Romania in a joint statement condemning the strike.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz later wrote on X that he met with Ţoiu following «the reckless Russian drone strike on a Romanian apartment building.
«The violence must end before more innocent people suffer,» Waltz wrote.
Ţoiu told Fox News Digital she also held meetings with the U.S. delegation at the United Nations following the emergency session.
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NATO leaders participate in a summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025, where they pledged to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035 as requested by President Donald Trump. (Handout / Latin America News Agency via Reuters Connect)
«The United States has joined our common statement alongside more than 50 countries in making a clear public message on the attack,» she said.
«We are working with the United States not just through our partnership in NATO, but also strategic partners.»
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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did it again.
One year after sending political shock waves across the country with his New York City Democratic primary victory on his way to winning election as mayor of the nation’s most populous city, Mamdani tested the limits of his political powers.
And he easily passed the test, upending the Democratic Party establishment as a trio of Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates won their primaries over more moderate incumbents and rivals.
Mamdani was the biggest winner on Tuesday, but President Donald Trump also covered his bases, as New York, Maryland, Utah and South Carolina held primaries and runoff elections.
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Congressional candidates Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani raise their hands during a Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater in New York City on June 18, 2026. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Mamdani ahead of the primary and early voting to campaign for the candidates challenging incumbents in Democratic primary contests. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Democrats lurching left
The mayor’s most shocking victory came in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, narrowly topped incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat, the 71-year-old Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair and the first Dominican American elected to the U.S. House.
Espaillat, who has been in Congress for a decade, was supported by a slew of party leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST WITH HISTORY OF ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WINS VICIOUS DEM PRIMARY RACE
In the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mamdani-endorsed state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who is also aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, downed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso by double digits. Reynoso, who was supported by Velazquez, was downed by more than 20 points.
«Tonight, we haven’t just won an election. We have declared that this movement is durable — that it is growing, and that it will not stop until working people are no longer asked to just build the table, no longer just offered a seat at the table, but will run the table,» Valdez said in declaring victory.
And a third Mamdani-backed congressional candidate, progressive Brad Lander, crushed incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman. Lander, the former New York City comptroller, ran against Mamdani last year in the crowded Democratic primary field but became one of his biggest backers in the general election.
Chevalier, Valdez, and Lander showcased the mayor’s platform of focusing on affordability in a city with one of the nation’s highest costs of living. And all three were very critical of Israel.
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Lander, who is Jewish, said in his victory speech, «You can criticize Israel and not be antisemitic. You can be an anti-Zionist and not be antisemitic
It was a risky bet for Mamdani, just six months into his tenure as New York City mayor, to take on the establishment, but he comes out of the primary as an emboldened kingmaker in the party.
Mamdani, who campaigned relentlessly for all three congressional candidates, had emphasized that the Democratic Party «must change.»
And on Tuesday night, at the Valdez primary celebration, the mayor said, «Let’s hear it for a politics…that will never forget working people. For a politics that is ready to write a new chapter in our party’s history, and for a politics that realizes the old politics that got us to this crisis, is not the politics that’s going to get us out of this crisis.»
Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, said that the results in New York City «shows we have a new party.»
But the results also give Republicans, who have long cast Mamdani as a radical, more ammunition to use him as a cudgel as they work to hold their razor-thin House majority in this year’s midterm elections.
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«Tonight wasn’t just a bad night for so-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries. It was the night the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party. Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots. And Americans should be terrified by where the Democrat Party is headed,» National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella argued in a statement.
Trump wins again
The power of the Trump endorsement in GOP primaries was tested again, this time in New York.
And the president prevailed.
Trump-backed first-time candidate Anthony Constantino, a businessman and former boxer, defeated Robert Smullen, a retired Marine Corps colonel and New York assemblyman who had the backing of the state party, in the upstate New York race to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial runoff, Trump couldn’t lose.
That’s because he endorsed both candidates in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.
State Attorney General Alan Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a landslide.
TRUMP CAN’T LOSE IN HIGH PROFILE REPUBLICAN RUNOFF
Trump endorsed Evette late last month, a week and a half before the gubernatorial primary.
Evette finished on top of a crowded field of contenders in the primary election, with Wilson second. The field also included Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, and multimillionaire businessman Rom Reddy. Since no candidate won a majority of the vote, as the top two finishers, Evette and Wilson advanced to Tuesday’s runoff.
Mace and Norman endorsed Wilson after failing to advance to the runoff. And Wilson was also backed a week ago by Sen. Ted Cruz, the conservative firebrand from Texas.
Trump, meanwhile, made an 11th-hour endorsement on Friday, backing Wilson in addition to his earlier endorsement of Evette, in what appeared to be a move by the president to hedge his bet.
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Wilson, who topped Evette by a more than two-to-one margin as the votes continued to be counted, gave a shout-out to the president in his victory speech.
«I believe he recognized what we’ve been doing,» Wilson said of Trump. «I think he saw the fight in our campaign and the energy in our campaign. I think he likes a fight. I think that’s what won him over.»
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Rusia lanzó un nuevo ataque masivo con drones y misiles sobre el este de Ucrania: al menos un muerto
Durante la noche del martes y la mañana del miércoles, un nuevo ataque de Rusia contra Ucrania dejó un muerto al este del país, en Kharkiv. Un bombardeo nocturno con drones sobre la ciudad de Balakliya, en la región ucraniana, causó la muerte de una mujer de 56 años, de acuerdo con Oleg Synegubov, jefe de la administración militar regional. Durante el mismo ataque, una mujer de 21 años sufrió una “reacción de estrés agudo”, y se reportaron incendios y daños en viviendas.
Por otra parte, en Sebastopol, ciudad bajo control ruso en Crimea, un ataque atribuido a fuerzas ucranianas dejó a la ciudad sin suministro eléctrico, según informó el gobernador Mikhail Razvozhayev. Razvozhayev exhortó a la población a reservar el uso de teléfonos para comunicaciones de emergencia, con el fin de evitar la sobrecarga de la red eléctrica. “El enemigo vuelve a atacar a traición, intentando privarnos de unas condiciones de vida normales y sembrar el pánico”, escribió el gobernador en Telegram.
Crimea fue anexada por Rusia en 2014 y constituye un punto logístico clave en el conflicto. Ucrania ataca regularmente el territorio con misiles y drones. Mientras tanto, Rusia mantiene una campaña diaria de bombardeos sobre Ucrania con drones y misiles desde el inicio de la invasión, que ya cumple cinco años. Ucrania ha incrementado sus propios ataques, dirigiéndose con frecuencia a depósitos de petróleo y refinerías en territorio ruso, que, según Kiev, financian el esfuerzo de guerra ruso.
En las últimas semanas, Moscú intensificó sus ataques contra Kharkiv, la segunda ciudad más grande de Ucrania: bombas rusas impactaron el sábado pasado un edificio de apartamentos y provocó la muerte de al menos una persona y dejó otras nueve heridas, entre ellos un niño de 6 años.
El alcalde Ihor Terekhov comunicó en Telegram que, horas después del ataque, se recuperó un cuerpo de entre los escombros. Las bombas alcanzaron un edificio de baja altura en el distrito de Kholodnohirskiy durante la madrugada.
El jefe de la administración regional, Syniehubov, precisó que al menos nueve personas resultaron heridas y cinco de ellas permanecieron hospitalizadas. En otro ataque registrado el viernes por la noche, un dron ruso impactó un vehículo civil en otra zona de Kharkiv, causando la muerte de un hombre y heridas a la conductora, según añadió Syniehubov.
Las hostilidades rusas circulan por la misma vía que las declaraciones del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin, quien insiste en continuar con la invasión ya que no están dadas, bajo su mirada, las condiciones optimas para negociar la paz en Ucrania.
Por este motivo, el líder del Kremlin descartó el martes cualquier acercamiento con Ucrania para negociar el fin de la guerra, argumentando que la reciente solicitud de diálogo directo realizada por el mandatario ucraniano Volodimir Zelensky no generó condiciones favorables para entablar negociaciones ni para un encuentro personal entre ambos líderes.
Zelensky había presentado la propuesta en una carta abierta dirigida al Kremlin y publicada el 5 de junio, en la que exigía un alto el fuego inmediato y un encuentro cara a cara con Putin. En ese mensaje, también afirmó que “los rusos están cansados tanto de él como de la guerra”.
Durante el Foro Económico de San Petersburgo, Putin calificó la carta como un “papelito” y la describió como “grosera en partes”. A su vez, sostuvo que ese tipo de comunicados no allanan el camino hacia la paz y los vinculó a un ataque con drones ucraniano contra una residencia estudiantil en Starobilsk ocurrido tres días después de la carta.
“No, ese tipo de comunicados no crean las condiciones necesarias”, afirmó Putin en respuesta a un militar que le consultó sobre la posibilidad de negociaciones. “¿A qué se reducen, al fin y al cabo? A crear, por el contrario, cierto potencial de conflicto”, agregó, y cuestionó las intenciones de Kiev al señalar que, mientras se habla de encuentros personales, “tres días después” ocurre un ataque como el de Starobilsk.
(Con información de AFP)
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