Global News 05/02/2024

AP/Kin Cheung

UK local elections: What is at stake? All you need to know; Soviet-era attitudes to disability hinder Ukrainian fighters’ recovery; Global court in pressure cooker over threat of Israel arrest warrants; Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says

• UK local elections: What is at stake? All you need to know (AP)

• Soviet-era attitudes to disability hinder Ukrainian fighters’ recovery (POLITICO)

• Global court in pressure cooker over threat of Israel arrest warrants (The Hill)

• Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says (BBC)

• EU unveils €1-billion aid package for Lebanon in bid to curb refugee flows (Euronews)

• Missing in action: How two key parties in India’s largest state collapsed (Al Jazeera)

• As Hamas considers cease-fire, question hangs: Will Israel end war without the group's destruction? (AP)

• Essential supplies running out as RSF paramilitary encircles Darfur’s largest city (The Guardian)

• Chinese companies receive far more state support - making it harder for Western businesses to compete, data suggests (Sky News)

• UN observes reduction in Taliban’s enforcement of hijab on Afghan women (Voice of America)

• 2024 European farmers’ protests: Europe’s climate agenda appears dead on arrival (Vox)

• Solomon Islands elects Jeremiah Manele as new prime minister (Al Jazeera)

• M23 rebels claim control of DR Congo's coltan mining town of Rubaya (EastAfrican)

• Ukraine: Russian Forces Executed Surrendering Ukraine Soldiers (Human Rights Watch)

• How the Charlotte shooting happened: Guns, police, community collide (USA Today)