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Reporters Without Borders

Press freedom declines globally as Luxembourg drops in rankings

Han Duck-soo became acting president after Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment

Joining race in snap election

South Korea former PM launches presidential bid

Morning Roundup

Trade unions plan protest, new online banking security measures, and Britain's hard-right snatch parliamentary seat

Both parties signed the deal on Wednesday

Despite no explicit safety guarantees

Zelensky says minerals deal with US 'truly equal'

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, leader of the United National Congress party, speaks to supporters during a rally in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago last month

Head of centrist United National Congress party

Trinidad leader sworn in, vows fresh start for violence-weary state

A man kneels in prayer in front of US President Donald Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden

Surrounded by faith leaders

'Divine dreams' and 38 virgins at Trump prayer event

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff listens to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting in France in April 2025

Called for global boycott of Iranian oil

US expects Iran talks but Trump presses sanctions

The Novi Sad train disaster led to the resignation of a prime minister and the fall of the government

Serbian students, unions join forces to pressure government

Lee Jae-myung is South Korea’s main opposition leader

Political pandemonium

S. Korea crisis deepens with election frontrunner retrial, resignations

Starmer's first polls

Local elections test UK's main parties as hard right rises

More than 50,000 officers were deployed on May Day in Istanbul

Over 50,000 officers

Police arrest more than 400 in Istanbul May Day showdown

Tens of thousands of UK children have written to World War II veterans ahead of VE Day celebrations

Teaching 'memory and meaning'

Thousands of UK children write to WWII veterans ahead of VE Day

Following text scandal

Trump axes NSA Waltz after chat group scandal, nominates him for UN ambassador

India blames Pakistan for the gun attack that killed 26 people on April 22 in Indian-administered Kashmir, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his military

After deadly attack

Religious schools close in Pakistani Kashmir as tensions rise with India

Spain mourns iconic fan

'Manolo' dies aged 76 after four decades of support

Flames engulf vegetation during a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh on April 30, 2025

Firefighting teams still at work

Israel brings fire near Jerusalem 'under control', reopens roads

Workers from Pakistan's Civil Defence Department give first aid training for schoolchildren as tensions rise with India over a deadly attack in disputed Kashmir

Children learn emergency drills as Kashmir tensions rise

Several Bangladesh political parties plan to hold rallies over the next three days

Drumming up support

Bangladesh begins three days of mass political rallies

Afghan children receive food aid from a local charity in Mazar-i-Sharif on March 2, 2025

Missing out on vital care

Millions of children to suffer from Trump aid cuts

Flames engulf vegetation during a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh on April 30, 2025

Israel reopens key roads as firefighters battle blaze

The EU parliament has three separate far-right groups

Europe far-right surge masks divisions

A handout sketch received from the Supreme Court of Victoria on April 29, 2025 shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced meal. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Triple murder trial

Australian mushroom meal victim 'hunched' in pain, court hears

Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 3,800 people

Myanmar junta lets post-quake truce expire

A dragline excavator operates in an open-pit titanium mine in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine in February 2025

Long-term investment

Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv

People are evacuated on a recovery vehicle at a highway during a forest fire

'National emergency'

Israel's Netanyahu warns wildfires could reach Jerusalem

Taksim Square is a place of 'huge symbolic significance for the Turkish trade union and workers movements', Amnesty said

Restricted access

Istanbul lockdown aims to prevent May Day marches

Bolivia's former president Evo Morales is intent on running for a fourth term as president, despite being charged with trafficking of a minor and being barred from seeking re-election

Barred from seeking fourth term

Morales vows no surrender in bid to reclaim Bolivian presidency

Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947

'Credible evidence'

Pakistan says India planning strike after deadly Kashmir attack

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