Russia's war in Ukraine
By Helen Regan, Christian Edwards, Hannah Strange, Adrienne Vogt and Aditi Sangal, CNN
Ukrainian military reports minimal gains and fierce Russian resistance along the southern front
From CNN's Julia Kesaieva, Tim Lister and Uliana Pavlova
Ukraine's military says there has been very heavy fighting along the southern front, with Ukrainian missile and artillery units carrying out nearly 1,500 missions in the last day alone.
The fighting has also included 36 combat engagements and 578 shelling attacks over the past day, according to Brig. Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, a Ukrainian commander in the south. The commander did not specify where along the front lines the battles took place.
Tarnavskyi claims Russia has suffered hundreds of losses in the recent fighting, though CNN cannot independently verify claims about battlefield developments.
Ukraine has met strong Russian opposition in the opening phases of its counteroffensive.
"Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine are putting up fierce resistance, sometimes pulling up reserves from the second line of defense," the press center for Tarnavskyi's forces wrote.
Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year
The social media giant Meta is facing growing pressure from MPs, consumer groups and the UK banking sector over its failure to prevent a “tsunami” of fraud on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, where Britons are losing “life-changing” sums every day.
It comes as a Guardian investigation reveals the human stories behind scams that originate on Meta’s platforms, with a nationwide estimate released this week predicting the tech firm’s failure to stamp out fraud will cost UK households £250m during 2023.
Emotional reunions for Greek boat disaster survivors – as coastguard denies reports tow led to tragedy
Officials suggest search and rescue operations will extend past the usual 72 hours, but no survivors have been found past initial 104
A Syrian teenager who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people off the coast of Greece was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other relatives searching for loved ones.
Mohammad, 18, from Syria, burst into sobs as he spotted his elder brother Fadi, who had travelled from the Netherlands searching for him. They wept and hugged through metal barricades, erected by Greek police around a warehouse in Kalamata where survivors had been sleeping for the past two days.
"Thank God for your safety," Fadi said, repeatedly kissing his younger sibling on the head.
Sudan war drives one million children from homes: UN
The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children, 270,000 of them in the Darfur region, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) has said, warning more were at "grave risk".
Fighting has raged in Sudan since mid-April between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
As well as the more than one million displaced, at least 330 children have been killed and more than 1,900 wounded, UNICEF said in a statement on Thursday.
"Many more are at grave risk".
The United Nations agency said an estimated 13 million children were in "dire need" of humanitarian assistance.
"Children are trapped in an unrelenting nightmare, bearing the heaviest burden of a violent crisis they had no hand in creating -- caught in the crossfire, injured, abused, displaced and subjected to disease and malnutrition," said UNICEF Sudan representative Mandeep O'Brien.
Japan enacts watered-down LGBT understanding law
By Elaine Lies
Japan enacted a law on Friday meant to promote understanding of the LGBT community that critics say provides no human rights guarantees, though some conservative lawmakers said the measure is too permissive.
Japan, the only Group of Seven (G7) nation that does not have legal protection for same-sex unions, had originally pledged to pass the law before hosting a G7 summit last month.
However, wrangling over the bill meant it was only submitted to parliament for consideration on May 18, the day before the summit began.
The initial draft stipulated that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity should "not be tolerated" but was changed to "there should be no unfair discrimination", which critics say may tacitly encourage some forms of discrimination.
The Aces: US pop band comes of age after a reckoning with Mormonism
Tucked into the corner of the BBC's Maida Vale studios, The Aces are receiving a pep talk.
"When the red light goes on, we're recording," the studio engineer tells the band. "We'll do a couple of passes of each song. You'll know in your heart when it's good."
"We try to be good first time," smiles singer Cristal Ramirez.
The US quartet are recording their first ever session for BBC Radio 1, who've made their single, Always Get This Way, the station's tune of the week.
There are a couple of false starts: A drum sample isn't firing and an autotune effect is misbehaving. Guitarist Katie Henderson commandeers a laptop from their sound engineer, swipes through two dozen menus and recalibrates the backing track.
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