Three dead in Mexican gun battle
A gun battle leaves three dead on the streets of Reynosa, a Mexican city on the border with the US that has been plagued by drug cartel violence. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
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Saudis meet Yemen aid call
Saudi Arabia, which is leading an air campaign against rebels in Yemen, has pledged the $ 274m (£183m; €255m) in aid to the country called for by the UN. BBC News – Middle East
UK monitoring French nuclear issue
Britain’s nuclear safety regulator says it expects lessons to be learned from problems with a French reactor that is very similar to one planned in the UK. BBC News – Business
Zuma vows to end xenophobic attacks
President Jacob Zuma visits migrant workers who have fled xenophobic attacks, saying the violence goes against South African values and must end. BBC News – Africa
Boston bomber ‘shouldn’t be executed’
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should spend life in prison without parole, write the parents of the youngest victim of Boston marathon attack BBC News – US & Canada
Six released in Syria ‘terror’ probe
Six people arrested by UK police over alleged terror offences after a group was stopped at the Turkey-Syria border are released without charge. BBC News – UK