Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 23 Palestinians are killed, including three children, in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Palestine. (CTV News)

• https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/israeli-airstrikes-kill-23-in-gaza-as-outcry-over-aid-blockade-grows/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ecuador announces a three-day mourning period after eleven soldiers are killed in an ambush by guerrillas. (News Express)

• https://newsexpressngr.com/news/260738/guerrillas-kill-11-soldiers-in-ambush

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 19 prisoners are killed and 45 others are injured in an airstrike by the Rapid Support Forces on a prison in Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)

• https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/a-suspected-rsf-strike-hits-a-prison-killing-at-least-19-in-sudan-officials-say/

Disasters and accidents

At least seven people die and others are injured over two districts in Mogadishu, Somalia, after a flood triggered by severe rainfall sweeps infrastructure including Aden Adde Airport. The rain also collapses nine houses and floods over 200 others. (Reuters) (Devdiscourse)

• https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/seven-dead-after-heavy-rain-hit-mogadishu-friday-2025-05-10/
• https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/3377961-devastating-floods-ravage-mogadishu-claiming-lives-and-altering-infrastructure

Disasters and accidents

Four people are injured and 150,000 people are issued health warnings and stay-indoors orders when a chemical plant catches fire in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain. (CTV News)

• https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/fire-at-chemical-plant-in-northeastern-spain-keeps-thousands-indoors/

Politics and elections

The government of Bangladesh bans the Awami League party of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year during mass protests, before her flight to India. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-yunus-awami-league-78b40dfe9c92257f0042968c7b963c2a

Science and technology

Kosmos 482, a failed Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to Roscosmos. (The Guardian) (CNN)

• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/10/kosmos-482-soviet-spacecraft-plunges-to-earth
• https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/science/soviet-spacecraft-crash-kosmos-482