1. Helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California, Los Angeles early today in a move to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters.

2. Escalating campus protests across the country are forcing President Joe Biden to walk a careful line.

3. A lower turnout so far in India’s long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign managers.

4. Russia says attempts to take its capital or interest would be "banditry" and has warned of catastrophic consequences.

5. Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, as dozens more were killed in neighboring Tanzania and Burundi.

6. The yen surged against the dollar in early Asian hours on what traders suspected was another round of intervention by Japanese authorities to stop a sharp slide in the currency.