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People, animals and crops are suffering as a heatwave covers large parts of Asia. Climate experts attribute the excessive heat to climate change and the impact of a powerful El Niño in the western Pacific. Rachel Faber reports.

Police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday (May 3) and removed student activists who had occupied its buildings in protest against Israel's conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza. Sciences Po has become the epicenter of French student protests over the war and academic ties with Israel, which have spread across France but have remained much smaller in scale than those seen in the United States.

A local government in Manila on Tuesday (May 2) rolled out mobile showers to help locals battling extreme heat and facing power and water shortages.

Britain's opposition Labour Party won a parliamentary seat in northern England on Friday (May 3) and control of several councils, inflicting heavy losses on the governing Conservatives to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Lauren Anthony reports.

Turkey has announced that it's halting trade with Israel, worth $7 billion a year, until a permanent ceasefire and humanitarian aid are secured in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision as breaking trade agreements. Lucy Fielder has more.

Forty-two artefacts looted from Ghana during British colonial rule went on public display in Kumasi for the first time this week. David Doyle has more.

China on Friday (May 3) launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.

Britain's opposition Labour Party won a parliamentary seat in northern England on Friday (May 3) and control of several councils, inflicting heavy losses on the governing Conservatives to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron promised three billion pounds ($3.74 billion) of annual military aid for Ukraine on Thursday (May 2), adding that London had no objection to the weapons being used inside Russia.

Hundreds of protestors staged competing rallies at the University of Sydney campus on Friday (May 3), in support of both the Palestinian and Israeli cause, in protests inspired by the student movement sweeping U.S. campuses in recent weeks.

The injuring of Filipino crew and damage to Philippine vessels in the South China Sea is "irresponsible behaviour and disregards international law", U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a joint press conference on Thursday (May 2).

Police were seen charging into Portland State University on Thursday (May 2), as they moved to clear protesters from a library that was a major part of the demonstration movement.

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 29, local authorities said on Thursday evening, as the state government declared a state of public calamity to handle the dramatic situation. Ryan Chang has more.

Columbia journalism students recounted what it was like for them Tuesday (April 30) night, when scores of New York City police marched onto campus to clear an encampment and arrest demonstrators who had commandeered a classroom building.

Kenyan officials on Thursday (May 2) evacuated tourists stranded by flooding in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in the southwestern county of Narok.

A powerful explosion leveled a home in South River, New Jersey on Thursday night (May 2), resulting in the loss of at least one life, authorities reported.

Thousands of demonstrators blocked a key intersection in Georgia's capital of Tbilisi on Thursday (May 2), as protests against a law on "foreign agents" in the country continue.

Eyewitness footage showed protesters facing off with police at Portland State University on Thursday (May 2), amid tense scenes on U.S. campus' between officers and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Thursday (May 2) inaugurated a colossal storage basin that will help reduce the risks of pollution in the Seine as the Olympics approach and make the river suitable for bathing.

Over a million Rohingya living in the Kutupalong refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh are suffering under a brutal heatwave, with temperatures reaching up to about 107 Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius).

As large swathes of India are reeling from a heatwave, drone video on Wednesday (May 1) from the western city of Kasara showed women drawing water from a well and a river, surrounded by bone-dry stretches of land, for their basic needs.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday (May 2) that both freedom of speech and the rule of law must be respected in protests at college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza.

Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday (May 1) at an exhibition the Russian military said showed Western help would not stop it winning the war.

With bare hands and basic tools, Eunice Wanjiku dug through rubble on Wednesday (May 1) searching for loved ones still missing after devastating floods swept through central Kenya this week. Olivia Chan has more.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed Jewish students and pro-Israel activists in a video statement released on Thursday (May 2), saying Israel was standing together with them. Students have rallied or set up tent encampments at dozens of schools in recent days, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and demanding schools divest from companies that support Israel's government.