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Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2025. — Reuters pic

Israel finally allows limited food into Gaza after two months of blockade, but not before 57 children die of famine

Pope Leo XIV waves at the end of an audience with representatives of the media in Paul VI hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025. — Reuters pic

Pope Leo XIV: Mild-mannered American with global view

Democratic Alliance (AD) party leader and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro gestures during a campaign rally in Lisbon on May 16. — AFP pic

What to know about Portugal's snap election and the leaders vying for power

Polish police officers walk past campaign posters of a member of far-right Confederation party Slawomir Mentzen (R) and Karol Nawrocki (L), candidate for the 2025 Polish presidential election. — AFP pic

Who is Slawomir Mentzen? Poland’s far-right candidate shaking up the presidential race

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed ending the war without Hamas’s total defeat, while Hamas has balked at the prospect of handing over its weapons. Abir Sultan/Pool pic via Reuters

Netanyahu’s govt says Israel open to deal that includes ‘ending the fighting’ in Gaza

A Palestinian man cries outside Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City where casualties of Israeli strikes were transported on May 18, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on May 18 killed at least 33 people, more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded military campaign. — AFP pic

Israeli bombardment escalates in Gaza, killing at least 100 overnight as ceasefire talks stall

A Somali military officer walk past abandoned shoes at the scene of an explosion targeting a queue of young recruits registering at the Damanyo military base in Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia May 18, 2025. — Reuters pic

Somalia’s Damanyo military base hit by suicide attack during army recruitment drive, killing at least 10

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts spewing volcanic ash, as seen from Nobo village in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara May 18, 2025. — AFP pic

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi’s eruption sends ash 6,000 metres into sky, prompting highest aviation warning

Britain hopes to secure a reset deal with the European Union tomorrow that would boost defence and security cooperation, and smooth the arrival of people and also food into the bloc, its chief negotiator said today. — Reuters pic

UK's Starmer seeks EU reset on e-gates, food trade and defence cooperation, balancing concessions with benefits for Britons

Pope Leo XIV leads a Holy mass for the beginning of his pontificate, in St Peter's square in The Vatican on May 18, 2025. — AFP pic

Leo XIV’s first address as pope: A call for compassion and a plea to end marginalisation, environmental harm

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo April 17, 2025. — Reuters pic

Support for Japan PM Ishiba hits record low as nine out of 10 voters dissatisfied over soaring rice prices, Kyodo reports

Police have identified several other individuals believed to be involved with the man who was killed in a shootout at Jalan Lintang Bukit Jambul, Bayan Lepas yesterday. ― Reuters pic

Double murder rocks Thai town bordering Malaysia

The US is still a WHO member – its flag still flies outside the Geneva HQ – until its official departure date on January 21, 2026. — Reuters pic

WHO weighs priorities in new global health order after Trump unplugs funding

Seventeen people died in a building fire, suspected to have been spared by a short circuit, in the Indian city of Hyderabad on May 18, 2025. — Unsplash pic

Hyderabad building fire claim 17 lives, including six under age five (VIDEO)

Iranian security forces deploy following an armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the city of Shiraz on October 26, 2022. — AFP pic

Iran jails two women, sentences three men to death over IS-linked Shiite shrine terror that killed 15

A disabled Mexican Navy tall ship floats between the Brooklyn and the Manhattan bridges on the East River on May 17, 2025 in New York City after crashing into the former. — AFP pic

NYC mayor confirms two dead after Mexican Navy ship collides with Brooklyn Bridge