In Burkina Faso, a West African nation facing Islamist extremism, a national arts festival attracted troupes from even the hardest-hit areas.

Palestinian residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp said at least three people were summarily executed or used as human shields, claims Israel’s military denies.

The bodies, which were not publicly identified, were in the same area where Carter Rhoad and Australians Jake and Callum Robinson were reported missing.

A win by Claudia Sheinbaum, protégé of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could cement the grip of a party that already controls the presidency, both chambers of congress and two-thirds of Mexico’s governorships.

The exhibition comes just ahead of a May 9 Victory Day celebration that is very different from last year’s, when Russia was facing battlefield setbacks.

Heavy rainfall brought the highest water levels recorded in more than 80 years to the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.