This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Saturday the 18th of May,

these are our main stories.

Israel says its forces in Gaza have recovered the bodies of three Israelis

abducted from a music festival during the Hamas attacks last October.

Gunmen in Afghanistan have killed three foreign nationals and an Afghan in the city of Bamiyan and

President Zelensky of Ukraine has signed new laws to try to boost army recruitment

in the face of growing military pressure from Russia.

Also in this podcast a crisis in Cuba's sugar industry and its knock on effects.

It's a disaster. Today the sewer industry in Cuba almost doesn't exist.

Was the locomotive for the rest of the economy for more than 150 years.

When Hamas attacked Israel seven months ago,

about 1,200 people were killed,

a further 252 were taken back to Gaza as hostages.

Now Israel says its military forces have retrieved the bodies of three of the people who were at the

Nova Music Festival on October the 7th.

Daniel Hagari is spokesman for the IDF.

According to the credible information that we have gathered,

Shanile Luke, Ahmed Buskila and its Hagila, and its Haglerinter, were murdered by Hamas while escaping

the Nova Music Festival on October 7th and their bodies were taken into Gaza. They were celebrating life in the Nova Music

Festival and they were murdered by Hamas. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Paul Adams told us more.

The Israeli military has not released details on where and how the three bodies were found but Daniel Hagari said that there was credible

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