Israel Says It Has Taken Beaufort Castle in Southern Lebanon

SAO PAULO - Brazil is monitoring two possible Ebola cases in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro while test results are pending next week. One patient, a 37-year-old man from DR Congo, arrived with fever and later tested positive for meningitis. The other, a Belgian man who arrived from Uganda, tested positive for malaria. Neither diagnosis rules Ebola out. That is the unnerving part.

NAMKAM TOWNSHIP - At least 55 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a huge explosion tore through Kaung Tat village in Myanmar's Shan State on Sunday. As BBC News reported, the area is under the control of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, which said mining and quarrying explosives went off in an accident. Other reports gave slightly different tolls. The crater is enormous. So is the uncertainty.

BOGOTA - Colombians began voting Sunday in a presidential election that could reshape ties with the United States after months of public sparring between Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump. Polls opened at 08:00 local time and close at 16:00. As the BBC reported, no candidate looks likely to win outright, so a 21 June runoff is the smart bet. Petro says the vote will define the country's destiny. Fair enough.

XAYSOMBOUN - Four more villagers were brought out of a flooded cave in central Laos on Saturday, 10 days after flash floods trapped seven men who had gone in searching for gold. As BBC News reported, that brings the number rescued to five. Two men are still missing deeper inside, and some of the survivors are now helping search teams from their hospital beds.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Saturday that planned Freedom 250 musical performances on the National Mall should be canceled after several artists withdrew, some saying they were misled about the event's political ties. He called the remaining acts "overpriced" and "boring" and floated replacing the concerts with a MAGA rally or a major speech. The organizers still insist the festival is non-partisan. That argument is not having a great weekend.

TOKYO - Honda is recalling nearly 100,000 vehicles after U.S. regulators flagged a defect that could cause the front passenger airbag to deploy when it should stay off. As NBC News reported, the problem sits in the seat's weight sensor, where a cracked capacitor can short-circuit after humidity exposure. Honda says it had 228 warranty claims as of May 14 and no reports of U.S. injuries or deaths.

WASHINGTON - Jared Cooney Horvath's self-published book "The Digital Delusion," released last December, has become a kind of field manual for parents and administrators pushing to cut classroom screen time. As NBC News reported, copies are showing up at school board meetings, parent coalitions are hosting Horvath in webinars, and even Randi Weingarten cited him last week as states weigh new limits. The movement was already there. The book gave it a spine.

WASHINGTON - Kelly Adams-Smith left the Foreign Service this year after 28 years, months after her ambassador nomination to Moldova was pulled. As NBC News reported, she is part of a broader loss of senior diplomats as the State Department sheds experience it cannot quickly replace. That matters when foreign crises hit and the people who know how to handle them are no longer in the building.

OKLAHOMA CITY - San Antonio beat the reigning champion Thunder 111 to 103 in Game 7 on Saturday, sending the Spurs to the NBA Finals and extending the league's run of new champions to eight straight seasons. Victor Wembanyama led San Antonio with 22 points and seven rebounds, as NBC News reported. Next up is New York, in a Finals rematch from 1999. The Thunder looked built for a run. Not this year.

RANCHO MIRAGE - Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original Star Wars, died Wednesday at her home in California from metastatic cancer. She was 80.

As BBC News reported Friday, Lucas was widely credited with giving the first film its emotional shape and helping make sense of the climactic Death Star battle. Her work was mostly behind the scenes. The movies are not.

SEOUL - South Korea has ended a 34-year rule that let only licensed doctors legally give tattoos, bringing an industry that worked underground into the open. As the BBC reported from Seoul, artists had long faced fines or jail for doing work that was common but technically illegal. Lawmakers approved the change in September after a sustained campaign by tattooists. It took the country a while.