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TRT World says California’s drought is worsening and yet new figures show last March had the highest water use for that month since 2015 while residents defied pleas for conservation.

The Metro says the US could experience 100million coronavirus infections this fall and winter, as well as a wave of deaths, the Biden administration has warned.

The Independent says Democrats in many parts of the country are facing a potentially grim political year, but in California no one is talking about the liberal stronghold changing direction.

The Guardian says Sri Lanka has deployed thousands of troops and police to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence in weeks of protests over an unprecedented economic crisis.

The Guardian says the capture of a former Alabama jail official, along with a murder suspect she allegedly helped escape from custody, ended in tragedy on Monday when the jail official, Vicky White, fatally shot herself after a police chase.

France24 says Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose dictator father and namesake plundered and brutalised the Philippines for decades, on Tuesday won a historic election victory.

Euronews says at least one person has died and several others have been injured after two train carriages derailed and overturned near Vienna.

Arab News says Israeli PM Naftali Bennett’s statements rejecting outside interference in the management of the affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque sparked outrage among Jordanians and Palestinians.

Aljazeera says the United States has charged a former Haitian senator in relation to the assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moise in July last year, the Justice Department announced.

You’ve probably seen “Roe v Wade” trending all over social media over the past week as American abortion laws hit the mainstream news. We break down what’s happening and what it means for the future.

A CHECHEN unit commander was killed on camera as he was reporting live from a battle in Ukraine.

UKRAINIAN forces have destroyed Russian invaders and their equipment, new footage shows, as the defending military continue to repel Vladimir Putin’s army.

Anne Ryan found her 16-year-old daughter Brooke dead on her bedroom floor in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, after she suffered a suspected heart attack from sniffing aerosols

The Metro says a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of between 6.1 and 6.6 has rocked the coast of Taiwan – but there is no danger of a tsunami.

The Metro says a pregnant woman, a Spanish tourist and four minors are among at least 30 killed in a blast at a luxury hotel in Cuba.

The Independent says the Italian government has seized a luxury superyacht worth an estimated £570m that is believed to be linked to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Guardian says Carolyn Egan has seen people cross the Canada-US border for abortions – going north to south.

The Guardian says picnics have been banned and bins fenced off in a large swathe of northern Rome as health authorities move to contain the wild boar population after African swine fever was detected in a deceased animal.

The Guardian says polls opened in the Philippines on Monday as the country decides its next president in a polarising race between frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator, and a human rights lawyer who has vowed to tackle old, rotten politics.

There are fears Vladimir Putin will use today’s massive annual May 9 Russia Victory Day parade, in which Russia celebrates its historic defeat of the Nazis, to declare all-out war on Ukraine and mobilise citizens to sign up to the bloodshed

Aljazeera says millions of Filipinos have begun voting to choose a new president in an election pitting the son of the Philippines’ late dictator against a liberal human rights lawyer.

Arab News says as many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

Euronews says leaders from the Group of Seven developed democracies pledged Sunday to phase out or ban the import of Russian oil.

Brussels proposes to stop Russian oil imports by the end of the year, but can Germany stick to the deadline? Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, has…

Modi refuses to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine in a meeting with President Macron. India and France on Wednesday called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities” in Ukraine, with Prime…