Oklahoma Health Department has reported 9 cases of measles as of March 28.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had spoken with officials in Myanmar about the earthquake that hit the country and that his administration would be providing some form of assistance."We're going to be helping," he told reporters at the White House.

Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a letter to President Donald Trump, as seen by Reuters on Friday.In the March 16 letter, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the assets included air bases in Balidogle and Berbera as well as the ports of Berbera and Bosaso.

Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey's Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said on Friday.Medin was detained in Istanbul as part of an investigation launched after a protest in Stockholm in January 2023, where a mannequin resembling President Tayyip Erdogan was hung outside the city hall.Authorities said Medin was among 15 suspects identified for organizing, promoting, or being linked to the demonstration.Medin was charged with "insulting the president" and "membership in a terrorist organization."His employer, Dagens ETC newspaper, had raised concerns over his whereabouts after he was unreachable for two days.

The US State Department said on Thursday that short-term funding was being given to an initiative documenting abducted Ukrainian children, after Republican President Donald Trump's administration decided to pause the program on January 25.The US government-funded initiative led by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab helped track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.The decision to terminate the program, called the Ukraine Conflict Observatory, came after Trump ordered a broad review to prevent what he says is wasteful spending of US taxpayer dollars with causes that do not align with American interests.Ukraine says that more than 19,500 children have been taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory during the war in Ukraine without the consent of family or guardians, calling the abductions a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide.Russia has said it has been evacuating people voluntarily and to protect vulnerable children from the war zone.

A 30-year-old man was stabbed in Kiryat Malachi and is now in serious and unstable condition, Magen David Adom announced Friday.MDA medics arrived at the scene and provided medical treatment on sight. They then evacuated him to Kaplan Hospital for further treatment.This is a developing story.