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In Haiti, a grassroots vigilante movement is fighting back against gang warfare

The "Bwa Kale" movement that began on April 24 in Port-au-Prince has put some Haitian gangs on the run for the first time in years. But vigilantes have also killed some innocent people — and the movement has left the Haitian state less relevant than ever before.

The Paris police force and France's interior minister faced questions and criticism Monday over why a march of around 600 neo-Nazis through the streets of the capital was authorized over the weekend.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva has decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there.

Mining is banned and logging restricted in a vast Amazon area and some other indigenous reserves.

Ukraine Should Get Concrete Path to Join NATO, Estonia Says

Russian strike destroys Ukrainian Red Cross humanitarian aid storage point in Odesa Oblast

As a result of the Russian attack on Odesa Oblast on Sunday, a storage point with humanitarian aid from the Ukrainian Red Cross has been destroyed, and the provision of aid has been suspended.

Russians take language test to avoid expulsion from Latvia

In a Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the skyline of Latvia's capital, dozens of elderly Russians wait to take a basic Latvian language test as a proof of loyalty to a country where they have lived for decades. Speaking Russian instead of Latvian has not been a problem until now, but the war in Ukraine changed the picture. The government now demands a language test from the 20,000 people in the country holding Russian passports, mostly elderly and female, as the loyalty of Russian citizens is a worry, said Dimitrijs Trofimovs, state secretary at the Interior Ministry.

Ukrainian soldiers save 5 tonnes of books from Sieversk libraries destroyed by Russians

In the contact-line city of Sieversk, Donetsk oblast, servicemen of the civil-military cooperation unit completed the evacuation of book collections from several local libraries.

South Korea's biggest Pride event was blocked in favour of a Christian youth concert

Organisers of South Korea’s biggest Pride vowed to keep the event going despite government handing the venue to a Christian group.

Zelenskyy declares 9 May Europe Day and proposes to mark Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism on 8 May

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes that the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] establish 8 May as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II (1939-1945) in Ukraine, while 9 May should be marked not as Victory Day but as Europe Day.

‘Executing a person every 6 hours’: Iran hanged 194 people in 2023 alone

In the last 10 days, over 42 people, half of whom belonged to the minority Baluch community, have been hanged by Iranian authorities

Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C - BBC News

One farmer said the fierce heat meant people had to finish work by 10 o'clock in the morning.

Israel demolishes EU-funded Palestinian school in occupied West Bank

EU Delegation to the Palestinians says it is "appalled" by the "illegal" demolition which will “only increase the suffering of the Palestinian population".

Blasts rock northern part of Russia-occupied Crimea

On the morning of May 6, explosions rang out in the town of Dzhankoi in the northern part of the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. — Ukrinform.

Ukraine military says all 35 drones Russia launched overnight destroyed

Ukraine's top military command said on Monday that its forces destroyed all 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia had launched overnight at different targets around the country.

Young Crimean Tatar illegally imprisoned in Russia on ‘treason’ charges for trying to visit gravely ill father

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer

Iran concealed weapons in earthquake aid to hit US troops, Discord leak says: report

A new leak found that Iran concealed weapons within earthquake aid to Syria to target U.S. troops, The Washington Post reported. A new leak of U.S. documents that circulated on the online platform …

AP News: Days after two shootings left 17 people dead in Serbia, the European country's Interior Ministry urged citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence. Individuals who turn in weapons before June 8 will not face charges.

Serbia’s education minister has submitted his resignation following two mass shootings, one of them at a primary school, left 17 people dead. Education Minister Branko Ruzic is the first Serbian official to resign over the shootings despite widespread calls for more senior officials to step down in the wake of the back-to-back bloodshed. Ruzic cited the “catastrophic tragedy that has engulfed our country” in explaining his decision on Sunday. Meanwhile, the European country’s government urged citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence. The Interior Ministry says individuals who hand over illegally kept weapons between Monday and June 8th will not face any charges.

‘Face the reality’: France ‘must prepare’ for +4C global warming | CNTE told journalists: “We believe unanimously that we will retain, on our journey to prepare for climate change, the general hypothesis of global warming of 3C by the end of the century, hitting 1.5C in 2030, and 2C in 2050."

It comes after Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Béchu urged France ‘to come out of denial’ over climate change

Palestinian teens jailed for raping Polish tourist in front of partner

The two Palestinian defendants, 17 at the time, filmed themselves raping a Polish tourist and forcing her partner to watch.