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🇨🇴 Four Indigenous children who survived for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle have been rescued. When a small passenger plane crashed on May 1 and killed all three adults onboard, the four children – aged 13, 9, 4, and 11 months – were left on their own deep within the Amazon jungle. According to the kids, who are slowly beginning to talk while recovering in a hospital, they survived for the next month-plus by eating from survival kits airdropped into the jungle and utilizing wilderness skills passed down by their grandmother. The children were eventually rescued by Operation Hope, a massive search mission launched by the Colombian government after it discovered footprints, chewed fruits, and used diapers near the crash site.

🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran is helping Russia build a drone manufacturing facility for its war in Ukraine, per US intelligence. On Friday, a White House official unveiled newly-declassified intelligence showing the Iranian government has secretly been sending supplies to Moscow to help build a new plant capable of manufacturing at least 6,000 Iranian-designed drones per year. Tehran has already provided Russia with hundreds of drones used to hit military and civilian targets in Ukraine. Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in early July as part of a previously-announced plan.

🇬🇧 Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned from Parliament on Friday. Johnson, who served as the UK’s top lawmaker from 2019 to 2022, said he resigned after learning he would be sanctioned for misleading lawmakers about a series of rule-breaking parties the ex-PM held during the height of Covid lockdowns. He called the sanctions a “witch hunt” and claimed he was being "forced out of Parliament."

+Update: The AP reported on Saturday that an anonymous Biden administration official confirmed China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019; it came two days after the WSJ reported that Cuba agreed to host a new Chinese spy base in exchange for “several billion dollars.”