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The chairs of the House and Senate armed services committees say withdrawing 5,000 service personnel risked undermining deterrence. BBC News

A man has been charged with murdering a five-year-old girl in central Australia, days after her killing sparked a riot. Jefferson Lewis, 47, was also charged with two other offences, which cannot be disclosed for legal reasons. He is accused of killing Kumanjayi Little Baby, named in line with indigenous …

The BBC joined Canada’s military rangers on the final leg of a 5,200km (3,200 miles) Arctic patrol, where they shared the survival skills needed to endure freezing temperatures, navigate remote tundra and camp in conditions as cold as -60C (-76F). But how did the journalists on the trail, Nadine Yousif …

The girl’s death sparked an outbreak of violence in the central Australian town from where she disappeared. BBC News

On Saturday, Hamidreza Mohammadi told the BBC: “Her current problems include low blood pressure and a heart attack, but her previous conditions, such as pulmonary embolism (…) and having undergone stenting and angiography, make any treatment by the doctors in Zanjan effectively impossible.” BBC News

A new study reveals a decline in dragonfly and damselfly species in India’s Western Ghats. BBC News

The Icelandic star reflects on a phenomenal year, and the music video that let her go “primal”. BBC News

The executive director for the Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights, Roya Boroumand, says that an information vacuum in Iran “allows the state to broadcast its narrative, ie portray protesters as violent actors or foreign agents, while its victims, including those sentenced to death, and informed sources are silenced”. BBC …

While a Shahed can cost between $80,000 and $130,000 (£59,500 and £95,500), Zelensky says it can be intercepted with systems costing as little as $10,000 (£7,400). That’s far cheaper than traditional air defence missiles which cost millions of dollars. BBC News

Trump’s strikes on Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have driven oil prices up, with a barrel of Brent crude, a major oil benchmark, hitting a four-year high of $126 on Thursday. It has since fallen back to $111 but it was trading at around $73 …

It is unclear how he reached Eswatini. China described his visit as a “stowaway-style escape farce”. BBC News

Somali piracy, which was on the decline since 2011, has surged again since late 2023, when Houthi rebels began attacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. The attacks forced international navies to instead tackle the Houthi threat, thus allowing armed groups on the Somali coast to take …

The new measures come on top of a US blockade of oil to Cuba that has caused widespread blackouts and fuel shortages. BBC News

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the US decision to withdraw 5,000 troops was to be expected. BBC News

Under the new rules, police will be able to issue tickets directly to the car’s manufacturer when an autonomous vehicle breaks a traffic law. BBC News

Tehran says it has collected tolls from ships in order to navigate freely through the strait, with Hamidreza Haji Bababei, deputy speaker of Iran’s Parliament, last week claiming the first toll revenue had been deposited with the country’s Central Bank. BBC News

On 30 April, the US embassy in Beirut suggested a meeting between Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would give Lebanon “the chance to secure concrete guarantees on full sovereignty, territorial integrity, secure borders, humanitarian and reconstruction support, and the complete restoration of Lebanese state authority …

Former Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi has died at the age of 59. Zanardi’s family said in a statement that he died on Friday night. “It is with deep sorrow ​that the family announces the passing of Alessandro Zanardi, which occurred suddenly yesterday ‌evening, ⁠1 May,” they said. “Alex died …

“We cannot sleep! If we sleep, they bite the children and disturb us. There are so many weasels and rats – an abnormal number,” says Rizq Abu Laila, who lives right next to a rubbish dump in Gaza City with his four young children, one of whom has cancer. BBC …

A crowd has rioted outside a hospital in Australia where a man accused of killing a five-year-old was being treated. Kumanjayi Little Baby, named in line with Indigenous cultural practices that avoid naming the deceased, was found dead south of Old Timers Camp in central Australia on Thursday. Jefferson Lewis …