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Drones hit several buildings in Moscow while Russia launched another wave of flying bombs on Kyiv, NATO peacekeeping soldiers were injured in clashes with Serb protesters, and as life in China returns to normal, hawkers are hitting the streets.

Plus, deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom.

By Kate Turton

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A damaged multi-storey apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

AROUND THE WORLD

Drones hit several buildings in Moscow causing minor damage and forcing some people to evacuate their homes, Russian officials said. Moscow launched another wave of flying bombs on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing one person. Here's all you need to know about the drone attacks on Moscow.
Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters, while Serbia's president put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence.
US President Joe Biden said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call repeated Ankara's desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the US. Biden told him Washington wanted Ankara to drop its objection to Sweden's joining NATO.
India's monsoon rains advanced into some more parts of southwest Bay of Bengal after stalling for the past 11 days at a far-flung island, the weather department said. The monsoon, the lifeblood of the country's $3 trillion economy, delivers nearly 70% of the rain that India needs.
There used to be one family in Fanna Hamit's compound, now there are 11 families struggling to get by selling roasted crickets after she took in relatives fleeing the conflict in Sudan. They are among 90,000 people who have escaped to Chad since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April.

US NEWS

"I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot," Hillary Clinton reveals in a surprise online endorsement video. "He's just the kind of guy this country needs, and I really mean that." Welcome to America's 2024 presidential race, where reality is up for grabs.
Are the rapidly expanding capabilities of artificial intelligence on a collision course with politics? Reuters World News podcast looks into how AI could influence voters.
A handful of hard-right Republican lawmakers said they would oppose a deal to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, in a sign that the bipartisan agreement could face a rocky path through Congress before the US runs out of money next week.

Business & Markets

Oil fell, giving up earlier gains, as concerns about the viability of the US debt ceiling pact cooled the market's risk-on sentiment and mixed messages from major producers clouded the supply outlook ahead of their meeting this weekend.
A private jet used by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has arrived in Beijing, according to a Reuters witness. Musk is expected to meet senior Chinese officials and visit Tesla's Shanghai plant, sources have said, in what would be his first trip to China in three years.
As life in China returns to normal after the pandemic, hawkers are hitting the streets. For decades, street stalls and hawkers - common elsewhere in Asia - have been banned or tightly regulated in many Chinese cities, with authorities seeing them as unsightly.
Top US and European Union officials meet in Sweden to weigh how best to deal with China and cooperate on artificial intelligence and other future technology as well as EU complaints about Trump-era tariffs and US green subsidies.
Bitcoin prices on the Australian arm of Binance, the world's largest crypto-currency exchange, were almost A$9,000 lower than prices on rival exchanges on Tuesday, in a sign customers were seeking to exit their positions quickly.
Join us on Wednesday for a Reuters Newsmaker featuring Holly O'Neil, President of Retail Banking at Bank of America. US Finance Editor Lananh Nguyen will lead a discussion about the banking industry in its most tumultuous period since the 2008 financial crisis.

In Zimbabwe, female rugby team seeks to keep girls off the streets

Members of the Zimbiru Rugby Academy Club, an all-female rugby team take part in a training session outside Harare, Zimbabwe, May 2, 2023. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Bridget Magasu is the first to arrive for the training session, clutching a rugby ball while she waits for other members of her all-female rugby team to arrive.

Usually a sport reserved for the affluent suburbs of Zimbabwe's major cities, rugby is making inroads in the countryside, where it offers a release from the woes of poverty, early marriage and unemployment which have blighted the southern Africa country for decades.

Read more here: In Zimbabwe, female rugby team seeks to keep girls off the streets

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