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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on his country's Western allies to do more, asking why Ukraine can't be defended in the same way Israel was in the face of Iranian missile strikes. Also, tensions between Kyiv and Washington deepen as Ukraine continues to target Russian oil refineries. Finally, former UK prime minister Liz Truss has released a book, which has not been warmly received by many.

The NOAA scientific agency says that the world is experiencing its second bleaching event in 10 years. A coral reef off the coast of Florida has been impacted, as has Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Ukraine's commander-in-chief says Kyiv's military is struggling as Russia intensifies its efforts to move forward in the east of the country.

The global economy has so far shrugged off the Iranian strike on Israel. Important markets like oil had already priced in a possible attack, while gold and stock markets only moved slightly.

Megabrands like Zara and H&M sell garments produced with cotton from Brazilian farms. These are linked to deforestation and land grabbing, according to a new investigation

What does 22 years of data tell us about the nature of the economic relationship between Beijing and the African continent?

European heads of state and government came together in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss ways to heighten the European Union's (EU) economic competitiveness. At the special summit, they were issued a stark warning that the EU's economic performance was falling behind that of other key global players, most notably the United States and China.

Senegal announces a record seizure of cocaine; the most ever intercepted on land by authorities. Over a ton of the illicit drug was confiscated from a truck near the border with Mali.

For months, Europe has been rocked by protests as farmers decry high costs and low prices, in addition to what they call unfair competition from Ukraine, and the constraints of environmental regulations. EU elites are worried that the farmers' movement will boost anti-establishment parties in the European elections this June. The EU Commission has put forward proposals to ease the burden on farmers, but environmental groups say this is a short-term political tactic that undermines elements of the EU's own Green Deal – and will ultimately lead to more climate chaos for everybody, including farmers. We unpick this with the EU's Agriculture Commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski.

The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo, Vukovar was the first city in the former Yugoslavia to suffer ethnic cleansing, in 1991.

The case had been noted as an extreme example of European governments' efforts to thwart NGOs helping migrants in the Mediterranean.

Indians begin voting on Friday in what will be the world's biggest-ever election, with nearly a billion registered voters.