Chaos in Dubai, currently ravaged by a series of violent rains that are bringing the city of the United Arab Emirates to its knees. Particularly affected are the massive highways, which have been flooded, causing traffic jams. According to data, 254 millimeters of rain have fallen, which is equivalent to the amount typically seen in about two years.

An agreement on sanctions against Iran by the G7 is on the table of the foreign ministers in Capri, and the issue is expected to be included in the final document. This information comes from sources familiar with the matter, on the sidelines of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G7 countries in Capri.

Censorship in Italy becomes more intense. The Rai (Italian Public TV) journalists' union opposes the company's decision to allow government representatives to speak on talk shows without time constraints and without rebuttal. The public television service "reduced to a government megaphone": this is the complaint of Usigrai, the Rai journalists' union, which has issued a statement against the regulation on equal treatment for the European elections of 8th and 9th June approved by the government majority.

Italy has enacted legislation enabling anti-abortion activists to access abortion clinics, forming part of a broader set of initiatives endorsed by Meloni’s cabinet. These measures, financed by the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund, were subjected to a confidence vote in the lower house on Tuesday and are anticipated to pass comfortably in the senate. Additionally, regions like Marche, governed by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, have imposed restrictions on access to the abortion pill.

The BBC has confirmed that Russia's death toll in its invasion of Ukraine has surpassed 50,000.

As violence in the Israeli- occupied Palestinian West Bank continues to escalate, the UN human rights office is demanding that the “Israeli security forces must immediately end their active participation in and support for settler attacks on Palestinians” in the occupied territory.

In response to Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend, the US is expected to impose more sanctions on Iran. Iran's attack on Israel was in response to Israel's deadly bombing of Iran's consulate in Damascus on April 1.

Gaza is already in the grip of famine, as Israel continues to restrict food aid into the enclave. In late March, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to allow unrestricted access of food aid to Gaza, though the court lacks an enforcement mechanism.

Leaders of the G7 nations released a statement yesterday condemning Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend. Their statement expressed "full solidarity and support to Israel," without mention of Israel's deadly April 1 attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus that provoked Iran's response.

Axios is reporting that President Biden has informed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that the US will not participate in or support an Israeli strike on Iran in retaliation for Iran's strike on Israel yesterday — which was in response to Israel's April 1 bombing of Iran's Damascus consulate.

In response to Israel's April 1st strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria that killed 13, Iran attacked Israel last night with more than 300 missiles and drones. Most were intercepted or shot down.

Israel destroyed an Iranian consulate in Syria two weeks ago and killed top Iranian commanders, despite attacks on diplomatic facilities being considered off-limits. Now the US is reporting that the threat of an Iranian retaliatory strike on Israel is "real and credible."

Palestinian news magazine 972+ has reported that the Israeli military has developed an AI program “Lavender” that marks "tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties."

Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told the US Congress on Wednesday that famine has begun in northern Gaza.

Football superstar O.J. Simpson died yesterday of cancer at the age of 76. He was cleared in the 1995 criminal trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, despite physical evidence linking him to the crime. But two years later, the Goldman and Brown families won a $33.5 million civil judgment against him for liability for their murder.