Catalonia`s pro-independence parties can piece together a coalition government in the autonomous region despite losing their majority in Sunday`s (12 May) elections, leader of the separatist Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) party and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has said. In March, Catalan President Pere Aragones called early parliamentary elections for May 12 after the region`s parliament rejected the 2024 budget. Later that month, Puigdemont, who lives in exile, announced his candidacy to be president of Catalonia in the snap elections.

Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal and electrical substation in western Russia, a security source in Kyiv said on Monday (13 May), the latest in a series of cross-border aerial attacks. Russian and Ukrainian forces have escalated attacks on each other`s energy facilities in recent weeks, in bombardments that have piled greater pressure on Ukraine`s battered energy sector. The source in Ukraine`s defence sector said that drones linked to the security forces had carried out successful attacks on an oil terminal in the Belgorod region and an electrical substation in the Lipetsk region.

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The death toll from flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano in western Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 43 with 15 more missing, officials said on Monday (13 May). Hours of heavy rain caused large volcanic rocks to roll down one of Indonesia`s most active volcanos into two districts on Sumatra island Saturday evening while flooding inundated roads, homes and mosques.