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MANILA, (Reuters) – Ferdinand Marcos Jr clinched a stunning runaway victory in the Philippines’ presidential election yesterday in the first win by a majority since a 1986 revolution that toppled his late father’s two-decade dictatorship.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday lavished praise on Cuba’s leader, reiterated his wish for the Caribbean island nation to be invited to the Summit of the Americas in June and said Mexico would be hiring over 500 Cuban doctors.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Ferdinand Marcos Jr looked on course for a huge victory in the Philippines presidential election today, after an unofficial tally of two thirds of the votes showed the son of the notorious late dictator surging ahead of his nearest rival.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigned today, hours after clashes with pro- and anti-government demonstrators in the commercial capital Colombo amid the country’s worst economic crisis that has spurred protests by thousands.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two to inspire his army fighting in Ukraine, but offered no new road map to victory and acknowledged the cost in Russian soldiers’ lives.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – About 60 people were feared dead after a bomb struck a school in eastern Ukraine, authorities said, while Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to lead celebrations today marking the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Polls opened in the Philippines today in the country’s most divisive presidential election in decades, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable return to rule of the Marcos family, 36 years after they were toppled in a “people power” uprising.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday during a visit to Cuba that he will emphasize to his U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The world will do everything possible to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin loses his war in Ukraine, including keeping Moscow under sanctions for years, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new weapons and equipment for Ukraine today after an unannounced visit to Kyiv, the capital.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said today.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.

(Reuters) – Moscow residents appeared anxious but resilient as the country prepared today for its annual commemoration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany with an economy reeling from the West’s most stringent economic sanctions in modern times.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in the Philippines yesterday where the leading presidential candidates made a last-ditch bid to sway undecided voters with patriotic, upbeat messages after a divisive election race.

KYIV, (Reuters) – All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said yesterday, after a week long effort rescued hundreds of people during an ongoing Russian assault at the plant.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hailed its first victory in a Northern Ireland Assembly election as a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on a united Ireland.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women yesterday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

KYIV, (Reuters) – All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said today, despite what military officers said was an ongoing Russian assault at the plant.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, hailed its first election win in Northern Ireland’s history as a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on the creation of a united Ireland.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women today to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.