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The European Commission urges EU states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece in the next two years.
BBC News – Europe

An EU referendum, tax freezes and a boost for “working people” are among the plans unveiled in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech in nearly two decades.
BBC News – UK

A large part of the southern US continues to recover from deadly floods brought on by powerful weekend storms.
BBC News – US & Canada

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says.
BBC News – Africa

On a gloomy April afternoon in Norman, Oklahoma, more than 200 people turned to Food and Shelter for a warm meal and a dry refuge.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Amazon, the global online retailer, is changing the way it records European sales in a move that could see it paying more tax.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi government forces formally launch an operation to drive Islamic State (IS) out of the western province of Anbar, days after the fall of Ramadi.
BBC News – Middle East

At least 13 people die as a tornado strikes Mexico’s Ciudad Acuna, with flooding over the border in Texas leaving at least three dead and 12 missing.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A 14-year-old boy is convicted of terrorism offences in Austria, including a bomb plot potentially targeting a railway station in Vienna.
BBC News – Europe

Former City trader Tom Hayes is accused of being “dishonest and manipulative” in his alleged attempts to rig Libor rates, a court hears.
BBC News – UK

Three people have died and several others are missing after severe flooding in the southern US states of Texas and Oklahoma.
BBC News – US & Canada

Kenyan police have been involved in a fierce battle with militant Islamists in the north-east, leaving one officer wounded, a government spokesman tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

Greece will not be able to make a debt repayment to the IMF due in early June as it does not have the money, the interior minister says.
BBC News – Business

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter says the rout of Iraqi forces at Ramadi showed they lacked the will to fight against Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez announces on a leaked video he has gone on hunger strike demanding “freedom for political prisoners”.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski concedes the election to challenger Andrzej Duda after exit polls suggest he has lost the run-off vote.
BBC News – Europe

EU citizens living in the UK will not be eligible to vote in the “in/out” referendum on Europe, except those from Ireland, Malta and Gibraltar, the government says.
BBC News – UK

Renowned mathematician John Nash, subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a New Jersey taxi crash with his wife.
BBC News – US & Canada

Ethiopians vote in the first elections since the 2012 death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, with predictions his successor will retain power.
BBC News – Africa

NEW YORK CITY — After spending five straight years in Oklahoma City in the thick of postseason battles, the Thunder fin
Oklahoma City Thunder