The Debate

A nail biter is unfolding in a polarised Peru. The hard right's Keiko Fujimori, daughter of a jailed former president, is facing off against a populist political novice, the far left's Pedro Castillo. Which way for a nation beset by corruption and mismanagement, where Covid-19 has only accentuated the inequality gap? Will the result clear the air in a Peru that has been through five heads of state in five years?

If it's all over for Bibi, then why is Israel still holding its breath? After an eleventh-hour deal on a coalition to bring the curtain down on the Netanyahu years, drama is now shifting to parliament where the speaker – a Likud loyalist – refuses to move up the date for a vote of confidence. We ask about the push to first remove Yariv Levin, then get the 61 votes needed to oust the country's longest-serving prime minister.

Is it really "bye bye Bibi" this time? Israel's longest-serving prime minister has been written off more times than we can count. While it seemed that Benjamin Netanyahu's demise might be reversed during last month's fighting with Gaza, it's now deadline day for coalition building and the cards are out of his hands.

What are the terms and conditions of success? World number two Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world when she announced late on Monday that she preferred to quit the French Open before her second-round match rather than face another confrontation over her refusal to attend the post-match press conference.

It's a tale of two worlds. Vaccines and clement spring weather are easing lockdown restrictions in the West, while new variants spread in unvaccinated Asia, Africa and Latin America. Are superpower tensions fuelling discord when we should all be pulling together? Does China need to do more to dispel doubts about the origins of Covid-19?