India
‘Glimmer of hope,’ began an AP headline on India’s COVID-19 crisis today. Though the virus is still raging, experts believe the curve is now beginning to flatten.
Read the full piece here.
Israel-Palestine
Incredible - harrowing - photograph by Palestinian photographer Ashraf Amra in Gaza. This is six-year-old Suzy Eshkuntana being pulled from the rubble of her home seven hours after an Israeli air raid killed her mother and all four of her siblings. She was later reunited with her father at hospital, as captured by Reuters below.
Al Jazeera live blog here. Middle East Eye live blog here. Al Jazeera television streaming live here. And Israel’s Haaretz newspaper here.
Chile
Stunning result in Chile as independents won two-thirds of seats in a body that will write a new constitution. The drive for a new constitution came about after street protests in 2019 turned into a mass movement against inequality. Activists said the Pinochet dictatorship-era constitution gave too much power to the private sector.
More from the BBC here.