The BBC’s Russia editor reports from a Red Square with none of the military hardware which the Kremlin normally showcases to project power internationally. BBC News

“This is not another Covid,” Tedros Ghebreyesus tells islanders before MV Hondius docks on Sunday. BBC News

With fewer guests, fewer reporters, and no military hardware on display, Moscow’s Victory Day parade was a much quieter affair than usual on Saturday. The annual showcase of military might was scaled back due to security concerns, with Russian authorities fearing Ukrainian forces could target Red Square with a drone …

It will not dock directly in Tenerife but will instead anchor out at sea and its passengers will be ferried to the vast industrial port of Granadilla, in the south-east of the island, well away from residential areas. Soon after their arrival they will be repatriated, or, in the case …

The two sides report responding to hundreds of drone attacks, just hours into a truce to cover celebrations of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. BBC News

The US president said the European Union must enact the trade deal agreed last year and drop tariffs on American goods to zero. BBC News

Federico Valverde was taken to hospital with a head injury after an alleged dressing room incident with Real Madrid team-mate Aurelien Tchouameni, just three days before they face a crunch title match against rivals Barcelona. Real later said in a statement they had opened disciplinary proceedings against the pair “following …

Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil blamed the US president’s “irresponsible war in Iran” for harming the Germany economy. BBC News

A scaled-back parade, too, is a symbol: of a country that has failed to secure victory in Ukraine after more than four years of war. In January the conflict passed a milestone: Russia’s war on Ukraine has gone on longer than the Soviet Union’s fight against Hitler’s Germany, which is …

A 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa is among those who left MV Hondius at St Helena. BBC News

The road crossing is the latest sign of the deepening relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow. BBC News

The case first emerged last year, involving allegations of torture, rape and abuse of power. BBC News

“The gold medal for philology is a pure creation of Mr Florent Montaclair, who awarded it to himself via the intervention of this learned society, which he himself had evidently created, and this university, which only exists on an internet site,” said Lallois. BBC News

Police search locations in 12 states, mainly in the East and South of the country in what prosecutors say is a targeted raid. BBC News

Ukraine’s president says Russia has “spurned the ceasefire” and Kyiv is deciding on further action to take. BBC News

A parliamentary committee of enquiry levelled charges of left-wing bias at state-owned France Télévisions and Radio France. BBC News

At a gathering in Armenia, leaders admit their alliances “aren’t where they want them to be”.  BBC News

The attack comes as the Kremlin prepares to hold a scaled-back military parade on Saturday. BBC News

Two European summits are being held in a country long considered Russia’s closest ally in the region. BBC News

Sébastien Lecornu visited a boulangerie on Labour Day, defying unions who say 1 May must remain a mandatory rest day. BBC News