Ecuador’s youngest mayor shot dead, police say (www.cnn.com)
Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27-year-old Brigitte García, was found shot dead Sunday morning, the country’s national police said....
Speaker of South African parliament accused of taking $135,000 and a wig in bribes (www.theguardian.com)
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula denies allegations she took bribes over three years while defence minister...
Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on north and south of Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Israeli air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians at both ends of the Gaza Strip overnight, hitting the area around Al Shifa hospital in the north and Rafah on the southern edge where more than a million people have sought shelter....
Russia aims to knock out Ukraine's power grid in new wave of attacks (kyivindependent.com)
Russia launched a fresh wave of missile and drone attacks against Ukraine between March 21-25, hitting the country’s critical infrastructure heavier than ever before....
Kenya starts to return the 429 bodies of doomsday cult victims to families (apnews.com)
The Kenyan government on Tuesday began handing over 429 bodies of members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country....
Austrian police given small gifts after protecting Russian Embassy, told to reject them in future (apnews.com)
Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country’s presidential election were given small presents as they left, Vienna police said Tuesday. Police were told to reject such gifts in the future....
Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia (apnews.com)
Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ammunition can help turn the tide....
New Zealand joins the US and the UK in alleging it was targeted by China-backed cyberespionage (apnews.com)
Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a state-sponsored operation that targeted New Zealand’s Parliament in 2021, the country’s security minister said Tuesday....
Hunter Biden's federal gun charges explained (eu.usatoday.com)
Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 passengers may be crime victims: FBI (www.reuters.com)
Japan to sell fighter jets in latest break from post-war pacifist ideals (www.bbc.com)
Chinese Tanker Hit with Houthi Missile in the Red Sea (news.usni.org)
Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage (www.politico.eu)
An early burst of patriotic fervor saw draft centers swamped with volunteers, but that has waned with Vladimir Putin’s war in its third year....
Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputees (www.politico.eu)
The adult celebrity is a “patriot of her country,” said one of the amputees who took part in a flirty photo shoot....
Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront (www.bbc.com)
Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Some in the settler movement have cherished the dream - or pipedream - of...
UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire (www.bbc.co.uk)
UN Security Council passes resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote
Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate almost certain to become president (www.theguardian.com)
Radical change candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye pulls off stunning election win after main rival Amadou Ba concedes defeat...
Hamas, Al Jazeera admit: Story of IDF rapes in Gaza hospital fabricated (www.jpost.com)
Russia extends arrest of US journalist Evan Gershkovich to June 30 (www.lemonde.fr)
Gershkovich, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, has already spent almost a year behind bars....
Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan (apnews.com)
Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions....
UK court orders to delay extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to US on espionage charges (apnews.com)
A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the United States on espionage charges, in a partial victory for the WikiLeaks founder....
Kyrgyzstan Calls On Citizens Not To Travel To Russia (www.rferl.org)
Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights (www.amnesty.org)
Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said:...
The Jewish settlers who want to build homes in Gaza (www.bbc.co.uk)
Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately....
Russia warns Japan on missile transfer to Ukraine, threatens ties (essanews.com)
The Russian Ambassador in Tokyo, Nikolai Nozdrev, has issued a warning to Japan in response to the potential transfer of Patriot missiles produced in Japan to Ukraine. Nozdrev emphasized that such an action could have severe repercussions for the bilateral relations between Russia and Japan, including possible “retaliatory...
