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00:01At least one person was killed in Russian attacks on the region of Kherson as Russia
00:05resumes fighting after a two-day pause.
00:11Pope Leo XIV gives his first blessing as Pontiff, calling for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.
00:20Russia resumed its fighting in Ukraine after a two-day pause.
00:25This included a fresh wave of overnight attacks using 108 drones on Ukraine, according to its
00:32armed forces.
00:34In Ukraine's southern city of Kherson, at least one person has been killed and two were injured
00:40in attacks over the past day.
00:42The shelling also destroyed homes and damaged civil infrastructure, according to officials.
00:49Ukraine's State Emergency Services says it has responded to 153 incidents over the past
00:5624 hours and at least seven civilians have been injured in attacks on the Kharkiv and Donetsk
01:02regions.
01:03Meanwhile, Moscow reported that Kyiv had launched 102 munitions and 66 drones on Russia in the
01:10past 24 hours, injuring two elderly women in its Kursk region, according to its deputy governor.
01:17Over 333,000 registered voters in Portugal can vote early this Sunday for the 18th of May
01:29legislative elections.
01:30A record since mobile voting began, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
01:37The early election comes as President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa dissolved the coalition government.
01:44The centre-right government of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a vote of confidence in
01:51March.
01:52Twenty-one parties are running in these early elections, including coalitions.
01:57A Euronews poll shows Luis Montenegro's AD coalition leading with 34.1 percent support.
02:05The Socialist Party, led by Pedro Nuno Santos, is at 27.1 percent.
02:12Meanwhile, the populist right-wing Chega Party comes third with 15.2 percent.
02:23Pope Leo XIV gave his first blessing as Pontiff this Sunday.
02:28In his speech, he called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in
02:36Gaza.
02:38He quoted the late Pope Francis in denouncing the number of conflicts ravaging the globe
02:42today, saying it was, quote, a third world war in pieces.
02:46He also said he was honoured to have his first address be on Good Shepherd Sunday.
03:07Publio XIV was elected on Thursday and is the first pontiff from the United States.
03:17Thousands of people have gathered at the former Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp in Austria
03:22on the 80th anniversary of its liberation.
03:26Mauthausen held nearly 200,000 prisoners during World War II, half of whom did not survive and
03:32must not be forgotten, as the organisers of the event insist.
03:37Nothing can be erased, neither the transports nor the forced labour, imprisonment, barracks,
03:48illness, cold, lack of sleep, hunger, the humiliation, degradation, beatings, streams.
04:01Nothing can, nothing must be forgotten.
04:07Many high-ranked international guests were present at the ceremony, including the King
04:11and Queen of Spain and members of the Austrian government.
04:19An anti-immigration protest was held in Poland this weekend, with far-right political groups
04:24attending the demonstration in Warsaw.
04:28The participants of the march opposed the creation of integration and assistance centres
04:32for immigrants in Poland.
04:36The demonstration comes ahead of the first round of presidential elections on the 18th of
04:40May, in which immigration is expected to play a key part.
04:44The view of the march is nowtiated between the two of the countries that spend in the 18th of May, and the 3rd of May, and that it is,
04:49the