| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Monday, May 16, 2022 by Rossalyn Warren | Hello Here's what you need to know. Ukraine says troops have pushed Russia back from Kharkiv, Shanghai sets out plans for the end of its COVID-19 lockdown, and Buffalo's Black community are left stunned after shooting. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Mourners embrace each other, while attending a vigil for victims of the shooting at a TOPS supermarket in Buffalo, New York, U.S. May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Iran-backed Hezbollah has been dealt a blow in Lebanon's parliamentary election with preliminary results showing losses for some of its oldest allies and the Saudi-aligned Lebanese Forces party declaring significant gains.
In North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the military to stabilize distribution of COVID-19 medicine in the capital, Pyongyang, in the battle on the country's first confirmed outbreak of the disease, state media said.
Earlier today, Shanghai set out plans for the end of its COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising China's economy. The end date for lockdown is June the 1st.
Authorities in Ethiopia's war-shattered Tigray region are forcing young people to join their army's fight against the central government by threatening and jailing relatives, according to captured fighters and residents.
Sri Lanka's new prime minister will address the crisis-hit nation today, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanized weeks of anti-government protests.
U.S.
An investigation into the weekend shooting of more than a dozen people at a western New York supermarket will turn on Monday to whether authorities missed telltale signs and red flags left by the teenage gunman prior to his racist killing spree.
Buffalo's Black community were left stunned after being visited by 'evil'. The gunman had driven for hours from his home to target the store, having selected it because of the neighborhood's high concentration of Black residents, according to authorities.
In California, a gunman opened fire in a Southern church during a lunch banquet on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the suspect and hog-tied his legs with an electrical cord, authorities said.
Earlier today, the White House said it has released $110 billion in funding from the $1 trillion infrastructure package that seeks to fix crumbling roads, expand broadband internet and improve the electrical grid.
The Biden administration is increasingly feeling it has little control over short-term inflation, officials say, and is looking for ways to offset the political risk from price hikes in the months leading up to November's elections.
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