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Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Wednesday, including the continuing search for a tourist submersible, deadly riots in a Honduras prison, and the impact of Sudan’s civil war is having on its neighbor, South Sudan.

TOP STORIES

• Oxygen supply dwindling in Titanic tourist submersible

About 40 hours of oxygen is left in a missing tourist submersible, which disappeared Sunday on an expedition to explore the famed Titanic shipwreck, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday.

Search efforts have focused on both the sea surface with 130 aircraft searching by sight and with radar and subsurface with P-3 aircraft, Capt. Jamie Frederick told reporters.

Five people are on board, including British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, expedition firm owner Stockton Rush, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.

• Riot at women’s prison in Honduras leads to deaths of 41 inmates

At least 41 inmates were killed in a riot on Tuesday at a women’s prison northwest of Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa, said Honduran prosecutors.

The deaths occurred during a clash between gang members. Of those killed, 25 were reportedly burned to death while 14 were shot, with the death toll expected to rise.

The prison system in Honduras has been heavily criticized for its poor conditions and documented overcrowding of inmates. President Xiomara Castro says organized crime has infiltrated the country's prisons.

• Sudan conflict impacting peace agreement in South Sudan: UN

The war in Sudan is impacting implementation of the revitalized peace agreement in South Sudan, the world's newest country, said a UN envoy on Tuesday.

Over 117,000 women, children, and men have crossed over into South Sudan from Sudan along the border areas, Nicholas Haysom, a UN special representative, told the Security Council. He warned the sudden interruption in imports from Sudan has resulted in essential commodities being “out of reach” for ordinary people in South Sudan.

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Petteri Orpo, the leader of Finland’s National Coalition Party, has become the country’s new prime minister after approval from parliament and the president on Tuesday.

• Thousands of demonstrators marched through Colombia’s major cities on Tuesday to protest the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro and oppose a raft of proposals to reform healthcare, pensions, and the labor system.

• The death toll from last week’s sinking of a fishing boat crammed with migrants off the coast of southwestern Greece climbed to 82 on Tuesday, with hundreds more migrants feared drowned.

• US President Joe Biden referred to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as a dictator on Tuesday at a fundraising event. Biden said Xi was embarrassed over recent tensions surrounding a suspected Chinese spy balloon that was blown off course over the US.

• International migration has become a pressing issue, with 281 million people living outside their country or region of birth in 2020, accounting for 3.6% of the global population, according to the UNHCR.

• The Hungarian police on Tuesday detained a 45-year-old Norwegian citizen in Budapest suspected of planning a racist terrorist attack similar to the one that killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.

• A court has ordered a restaurant in the US state of California to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages for hiring a fake priest to extract “confessions” from its workers.

SPORTS

• Haaland leads Norway to victory in UEFA EURO 2024 qualifiers

Erling Haaland led Norway to a 3-1 victory against the Greek Cypriot administration on Tuesday in a UEFA EURO 2024 qualifiers Group A match at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.

The Norwegian star found the net in the 56th and 60th minutes, with the first goal coming from a penalty kick.

Forward Ola Solbakken scored the first goal of the match in the 12th minute.

Grigoris Kastanos netted the only goal for his team in the 93rd minute.

• Ronaldo wins record 200th Portugal cap

Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo won his 200th cap with Portugal in their Tuesday match against Iceland in Group J, which ended with his team’s 1-0 victory.

The 38-year-old, who netted the winning goal of his team in the 89th minute, continues to break new ground as he was awarded a Guinness World Record for the most international caps by a men's player of all time before the match began.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

• Food exports through Black Sea grain deal dropped significantly: UN

The UN said Tuesday that food exports have dropped significantly from a peak of 4.2 million metric tons in October 2022 to 1.3 million in May, the lowest since the Black Sea grain deal began last year.

The head of the UN is ''disappointed'' by the slowing pace of inspections and the exclusion of the port of Yuzhny/Pivdennyi from the Black Sea Initiative, deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said in a statement.

• 9 out of 10 Lebanese families unable to buy essentials: UNICEF

About 9 out of 10 families in cash-strapped Lebanon do not have enough money to buy necessities, the United Nations children’s agency said on Tuesday.

“A growing number of families are having to resort to sending their children – some as young as six years old – to work in a desperate effort to survive the socio-economic crisis engulfing the country,” it added.