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1. How Britain’s far right hijacked the murder of Henry Nowak

   

   The brutal murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in southern England has ignited another volatile debate in the U.K. over race and what’s been described as “white grievance.” Despite pleas from Nowak's grieving family to prevent his death from sparking racial division, prominent far-right and populist figures have tried to exploit the tragedy.

2. U.S. House votes to curb Trump's war powers in strongest rebuke yet

   

   The U.S. House of Representatives for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict.

3. Cuba's battered tourism sector takes another hit as Spain's Meliá shutters some hotels

   

   Spanish hotel chain Meliá has joined a growing list of companies with a long-standing presence in Cuba that are withdrawing or limiting their operations on the island after the U.S. announced new sanctions while upholding an oil embargo.

4. Ukrainian drones hit St. Petersburg oil terminal before city hosts Russian economic forum

   

   Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, sending smoke billowing over the city where President Vladimir Putin was born as it hosts Russia's leading event for attracting foreign capital.

5. 4 migrant farm workers in Italy burned to death in car, according to survivor, police

   

   Four migrants working as fruit pickers in slave-like conditions in southern Italy have been burned to death. The murder case is prompting fresh national soul searching over the exploitation of farm workers.