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The District of Columbia is stepping up its efforts to protect students getting on and off school buses by adding…

At a joint press conference in Kyiv, President Zelensky said: “The Russian army is now trying to take advantage of a situation when we are waiting for supplies from our partners, especially from the United States of America.

“The general impact of climate change on the Philippines is warmer temperatures. The heat that we are experiencing, it could steadily increase in the coming days,” Mr Estareja said.

Australia’s newest budget airline – Bonza – has gone into voluntary administration, after cancelling all of its flights on Tuesday. The airline’s financial difficulties have left thousands of passengers stranded around the country. “We apologise to our customers who are impacted by this and we’re working as quickly as possible to determine a way forward that ensures there is ongoing competition in the Australian aviation market,” Bonza said in a statement.

“The pen drives were kept on bus seats, at bus stands and were given to people in public places like parks,” an official told the daily. “These pen drives had more than 2,000 files which included videos and photos. After a few hours, we saw these being widely shared on WhatsApp.”

The US State Department says five units of the Israeli military are responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but the US will continue to send military backing.

Four law enforcement officers have been shot and killed, and four others injured, while serving a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials say. 

U.S. Soccer and the Mexican Football Federation have decided to withdraw their joint bid to host the 2027 Women’s World…

Paedophile agrees to be castrated after getting girl, 14, pregnant A 54-year-old man who raped a 14-year-old girl in the…

Tech billionaire’s missing child found ‘in the back of a white van’ The teenage child of a tech billionaire who…

Girl, 10, ‘stabbed to death by 17-year-old sister’ A young girl has reportedly been stabbed to death by her older…

Monday’s front pages lead on a variety of stories. Several of the papers cover the UK’s Rwanda policy with different approaches to the story. Elsewhere, the latest from the UK government also makes a couple of the newspapers – with reports that Tory MP rebels are plotting to oust the prime minister ahead of what is expected to be disastrous local elections for the Conservatives.

The back pages lead on Arsenal’s win over Spurs to take them to the top of the Premier League table – the Gunners got off to a great start but Spurs managed to claw a few goals back in what was a nervy end to the match.

Mass rallies have taken place across Australia in response to a wave of recent violence against women. The protesters want gender-based violence to be declared a national emergency and stricter laws put in place to stop it. Aussie PM Anthony Albanese said the issue was a national crisis.

Taoiseach Simon Harris has asked Ireland’s justice minister to bring legislation to cabinet to enable asylum seekers to be sent back to the UK. Around 80% of recent arrivals to the Republic came from the UK, across the Irish border, Helen McEntree has revealed.

A month after seven aid workers for the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli air strike, the food charity has resumed distributing food in Gaza. The charity said it has 276 trucks with eight million meals to enter through the Rafah crossing. “Ultimately, we decided we must keep feeding,” the charity said on Sunday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United States to stop Israel from attacking Rafah, saying the US is the only country that can stop the advance. 

At least 5 killed after tornadoes strike central US states Multiple tornadoes tore through the central US, resulting in the…

The first trial of the world’s first “personalised” mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer – melanoma – is now underway in the UK. Steve Young, 52, from Stevenage, Hertz, who had a melanoma growth cut out of his scalp last August, is one of the first patients to try the shot.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must escape from its self-imposed naivety or face the risk of dying. In a speech on the EU, he said Europe must react fast to survive in a changing world. “We need to be lucid, and recognise that our Europe is mortal. It can die. It all depends on the choices we make, and those choices need to be made now,” he said.

PM Ariel Henry has resigned as a new country has been sworn in to lead Haiti which has been recently gripped by deadly violence. The outbreak of violence forced officials to move the ceremony from the National Palace to the outgoing prime minister’s office.

An LA college has cancelled its main graduation ceremony, citing safety measures amid spreading protests across US colleges over the war in Gaza. The University of Southern California (USC) was due to have its main ceremony on 10 May.

Australian actor Orpheus Pledger, former Home and Away star, has been arrested after a three-day police manhunt across the country. Pledger, 30, is facing four charges for allegedly assaulting a woman, authorities say.

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, has said that it has no plans to sell the popular video app despite pressure from the US government. Earlier this week, TikTok said it would challenge in court the “unconstitutional” law.

Breaking – Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by…

For professional footballers, representing their country at the Euros stands as one of the highest honours. However, for some of Europe’s renowned talents, their dreams of Euro 2024 have turned into a nightmare due to injury, robbing them of the chance to participate in this summer’s spectacle set to kick off in Germany on June 14.