* Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Prime Minister Mark Rutte joined around 4,000 people on Saturday for the country's annual World War Two remembrance ceremony amid restricted public access and heightened security due to the war in Gaza.
* No positive progress has been made in the Gaza truce talks on Saturday, a source from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said.
* Togo's ruling party, the Union for the Republic, won a majority in the legislative elections, the country's Independent National Electoral Commission said Saturday.
* Chadian security personnel cast and nomads began casting their votes on Sunday ahead of the country's presidential election slated for Monday. Chadians out of the country are also voting on Sunday, according National Elections Management Agency (ANGE) of Chad.
* Poland wants "the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report by Poland's PAP newswire on Sunday.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.
* Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for more turmoil during graduation celebrations.
* Israeli forces killed five Palestinians, including four fighters from the militant group Hamas, in an overnight raid near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Saturday.
* At least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed and 78,018 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said on Sunday.
* The 15th session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Summit Conference opened on Saturday in Banjul, The Gambia's capital, under the theme "Enhancing Unity and Solidarity Through Dialogue for Sustainable Development."
* Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry on Saturday exchanged views on the latest joint efforts to improve bilateral ties.
* Four members of a Lebanese family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said.
* The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday the closure of Al Jazeera channel and office in the country.
* China's cargo and container throughputs at ports saw steady growth in the first quarter (Q1) of this year, official data shows. The country's cargo throughput at ports totaled 4.09 billion tonnes during the period, up 6.1 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Transport.
* Bangladesh's exports in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (July 2023-June 2024) grew by 3.93 percent to 47.47 billion USD.
* Global food prices rose for the second consecutive month in April, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported Friday. It was the first time they rose in consecutive months in more than two years, FAO said.
* Two people were killed and 15 others injured in a heavy weapons attack in western Myanmar's Rakhine State on Saturday, the State Administration Council's Information Team reported.
* Australian police said on Sunday they had shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia's capital Perth, in an attack authorities said indicated terrorism.
* The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The torrential rains that have caused widespread flooding and landslides across the country in recent weeks are forecast to worsen in May.
* Heavy rains in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul this week killed at least 55 people, local authorities said on Saturday evening, while dozens remain unaccounted for.
* More than 600 people have been rescued from flooded areas around Houston, the fourth largest U.S. city, as a flood watch continues through Sunday afternoon in eastern Texas.
