ABIDJAN (Reuters) -- At least five people were wounded by gunfire on Sunday during protests in Ivory Coast's second-biggest city, Bouake, against an army mutiny, according to a witness, as popular opposition to the three-day nationwide revolt over bonuses gathered momentum.
Mutinous soldiers have now opened up access to the city, a leader of the uprising and Bouake residents said, allowing vehicles to move in and out for the first time since Friday. The mutiny began in Bouake and spread quickly to other cities and towns, mirroring an uprising by the same group in January that paralyzed parts of Ivory Coast.

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LONDON (Reuters) -- British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party has an 18 point lead over the main opposition Labor Party ahead of a June 8 national election, according to an opinion poll conducted by Comres for the Sunday Mirror and the Independent.
The Conservatives were at 48%, down 2% from Comres' previous poll published on April 23, against Labor's 30%, an increase of 5 points. The poll put the centrist Liberal Democrats on 10%, down 2%, and the anti-European Union UK Independence Party at 5%, also down 2%.

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WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- Just 29% of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, while 38% disapprove, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Another 32% of respondents don't have enough to say on the matter. Yet among those who say they have read, seen or heard "a lot" about the firing, 53% say they disapprove, versus 33% who approve. The NBC/WSJ poll — conducted May 11-13, after Trump's dismissal of Comey — doesn't show a significant change in the president's overall standing.

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ROME (Reuters) -- Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coast guard said.
More than 45,000 people have reached Italy by boat from North Africa this year, a more than 40% increase on the same period of 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. The new deaths add to a toll of 1,222 on the route as of May 10, compared with 966 by the same date last year, according to IOM calculations.

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TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- Albania's opposition mounted a national protest demanding a caretaker cabinet to guide the country to a free and fair parliamentary election next month.
Several thousand supporters walked peacefully along Tirana's main Martyrs of the Nation boulevard to Prime Minister Edi Rama's office, guarded by hundreds of policemen. Lulzim Basha, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, was seen accompanied by his wife and two daughters. The opposition has boycotted parliament since February and pitched a tent in front of Rama's office. They claim Rama's Cabinet will manipulate the vote.