A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. 

The attack in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine, which struck a market in the town of Oleshky, killed seven and wounded more than 20 people, Moscow-appointed Gov. Vladimir Saldo said.  

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime.  

MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a “through investigation” and said the next day that those responsible “must be held to account.” 

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so that he can face trial on charges of supporting a rebel insurgency in the country’s east, the justice minister said. 

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore. 

The West African country’s military government recently said it foiled a “major plot” to overthrow junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore, with the army alleging the plotters were based in neighboring Ivory Coast. 

Amnesty International criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists, and uses spyware against dissidents. 

The rights group said in its annual report on Indonesia that public protests “were met with excessive and unnecessary force and arbitrary arrests,” including in August when thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest attempts by the House of Representatives to change the country’s election law. 

Russia struck civilian areas of Ukraine with drones in another deadly nighttime attack, as Kyiv officials dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire next week as an attempt “to deceive the United States.” 

Israel's army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground. 

No food or medical supplies have reached the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip in nearly two months, since Israel imposed what has since become its longest ever total blockade of the territory, following the collapse of a six-week ceasefire. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on April 26 named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step for the aging leader to designate a successor. 

The appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) does not guarantee he will be the next Palestinian president. But it makes him the front-runner among longtime politicians in the dominant Fatah party who hope to succeed the 89-year-old Abbas. 

The Pristina Basic Court has issued an arrest warrant for Milan Radoicic and 19 others, suspected of war crimes during the Kosovo war in May 1999, in Gjakova/Djakovica.