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As the temperatures rise, experts advise Oklahomans about ticks.

WISN 12’s meteorologist Daji Aswad shows what the drought and rain will mean for the summer insect season.

Alicia Garcia Herrero, a Hong Kong-based chief economist at the investment bank Natixis and former adviser at the European Commission, explains the limits of Chinese economic help to Russia and how Beijing is looking to protect itself from similar Western pressure in the future.

State officials are still urging hikers and bikers to avoid muddy trails, while anyone heading outside should take precautions against tick bites.

Heavy fighting rages in Ukraine's east as the Black Sea port of Odesa came under Russian missile attack and Moscow stepped up is assault on a Mariupol steel plant where the last Ukrainian defenders continue to put up stiff resistance.

Leonid Kravchuk, a key figure in ushering in the largely peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union three decades ago and the first president of independent Ukraine, has died. He was 88.

The U.S. blacklisting of Iran's IRGC has split hundreds of families. Former IRGC conscripts, who have families in the U.S., are barred from entering the country. In interviews with RFE/RL, the men and their families said they should be treated differently.

Against the backdrop of a destroyed city and with the sounds of shelling of the besieged Azovstal steel works, Russia celebrated Victory Day in the "liberated" city of Mariupol on May 9. There was one problem: Very few residents took advantage of the free food and live music.

Iran's judiciary says the death sentence of Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali will be carried out, as Tehran does not plan to exchange him for an Iranian being tried in Stockholm for his role in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners at an Iranian prison in the 1980s.

The foreign ministers of Germany and the Netherlands have made a surprise visit to Ukraine, stopping in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Irpin, where Russian forces are accused of committing war crimes before retreating last month.