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The Israel-Hamas warThe reactions
Joe Biden: "What is happening is not a genocide"

Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. This is what US President Joe Biden said in a statement during the night of Monday, Swedish time.

- What is happening is not a genocide, we reject it, Biden said late on Monday evening.

Biden specifically singled out the genocide charges brought by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Earlier on Monday, Biden also directed harsh criticism at the International Criminal Court. The court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan recently requested an international arrest warrant be issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

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The violence in Haiti
Haiti's largest airport open after three months

Haiti's main international airport, Toussait-Lourverture, in the capital Port-au-Prince, opened Monday to air traffic for the first time in nearly three months. This is reported by AP.

The first departure was to Miami with local airline Sunrise Airways. US-based airlines are not expected to begin using the airport again until later in May or early June.

The opening of the airport is expected to ease the critical shortage of medicine and other supplies. The port is still badly damaged.

Around 80 percent of Port-au-Prince is currently controlled by criminal gangs. The unrest erupted on February 29, when gunmen seized control of police stations, attacked the airport and freed more than 4,000 prisoners from the country's two largest prisons.

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Climate threat The threat to the Amazon
A third of the Amazon struggles in the grips of drought

More than a third of the Amazon rainforest is struggling to recover from periods of drought, according to a new study according to The Guardian.

This reduced resilience has been made clear after four very severe dry spells in the last 20 years, and shows how vegetation is becoming increasingly strained by climate change.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined satellite images from the period 2001 to 2019. It shows that the rate of recovery of 37 percent of the trees in the Amazon has become increasingly slow.

- It makes me very worried about the future of the Amazon, says the study's lead author Johanna Van Passel.

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Reactions to Eurovision
Erdogan: Eurovision threatens traditional values

The Eurovision Song Contest is a threat to traditional family values and encourages "gender neutralization", according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In a speech on Monday, he describes participants in the competition as "Trojan horses for social corruption", AP writes.

Turkey has not participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since 2012. This year's edition was won for the first time ever by a non-binary artist.