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German authorities see Islamic extremist motive in Mannheim knife attack

German authorities say they have uncovered evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week’s knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured
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FILE - German police officers commemorate a colleague in Mannheim Germany, after learning that a police officer, who was stabbed two days ago there has died on Sunday, June 2, 2024. German authorities say they now see evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week's knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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Australian military will recruit some noncitizens in a bid to boost troop numbers

The Australian government says its military will begin recruiting some noncitizens in a bid to boost troop numbers
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In this photo provided by the Australian Defense Force, students climb a wall at the Recruit Training Unit course at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base in Wagga, Australia, on Feb. 23, 2024. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said Tuesday, June 4, 2024, that he wants to build a defense force that can resist foreign coercion through blocked trade routes as Australia relaxes recruitment rules in a bid to boost troop numbers. (Australian Defense Force via AP)
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With time short, veterans seize the chance to keep their D-Day memories alive for others

Ken Hay’s part in the invasion of Normandy lasted just a few weeks, but he wants to make sure the experiences of those who fought and died to end the Nazi grip on Europe live forever
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D-Day veteran and Ambassador for the British Normandy Memorial, Ken Hay, 98, who served with the 4th Dorset Regiment, speaks to children during a visit to Rush Green Primary School in Dagenham, England, Monday May 20, 2024, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)
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Early tallies from India's election show Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party comfortably leading its closest rival

Early tallies from India's election show Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party comfortably leading its closest rival
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Amanda Knox to defend herself in Italian court against a 16-year-old slander charge

Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all
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FILE- Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, left, a Congolese citizen who was accused by Amanda Knox and originally jailed for the murder of Meredith Kercher, flanked by his lawyer Carlo Pacelli, arrives at the Italy's highest court building, in Rome, Friday, March 27, 2015. Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that is the only charge against her that withstood five court rulings that ultimately cleared her in the brutal murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)
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Silence and heavy state security in China on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown

Security in Beijing is tight around Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China marks 35 years since the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests that killed hundreds, if not thousands
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A man pushes a bicycle past by a police van stationed at a bridge along the Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. China has quashed large-scale commemorations of Tuesday's 35th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown within its borders. But outside the country, commemorative events have grown increasingly crucial for preserving memories of the 1989 bloodletting, in which government troops opened fire on pro-democracy protesters resulting in hundreds, if not thousands, dead. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?

Several companies have emerged in the last few years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with an AI version of the deceased
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Michael Bommer, who is terminally ill with colon cancer, answers questions during a meeting with The Associated Press at his home in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Bommer, who has only a few more weeks to live, teamed up with friend who runs the AI-powered legacy platform Eternos to "create a comprehensive, interactive AI version of himself, allowing relatives to engage with his life experiences and insights," after he has passed away. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?

Several companies have emerged in the last few years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with an AI version of the deceased
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Michael Bommer, who is terminally ill with colon cancer, answers questions during a meeting with The Associated Press at his home in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Bommer, who has only a few more weeks to live, teamed up with friend who runs the AI-powered legacy platform Eternos to "create a comprehensive, interactive AI version of himself, allowing relatives to engage with his life experiences and insights," after he has passed away. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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South Korean president vows to expand aid contribution, mineral ties with Africa

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says the country will expand development aid to Africa and pursue deeper cooperation with the region on critical minerals and technology
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, center, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Korea-Africa Summit in South Korea, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Hang Kwang-mo/Yonhap via AP)
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Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces

Tractors are rumbling through the streets again days ahead of the four-day European Union elections
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Parliamentarian Klaas Slootmans of the Flemish Interest party joins farmers protesting changes in farming policy in Beersel, Belgium, Friday, May 31, 2024. Like other populist and hard right parties, the Flemish Interest Party has reached out to farmers ahead of the European Union parliamentary elections of June 6-9. Farming has turned out to be a pivotal election issue dividing right from left across the EU nations. (AP Photo/Raf Casert)
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Mexico’s next president faces 3 pressing challenges: money, dialogue and the US election

Mexico’s newly elected president faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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Future President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses supporters at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, early Monday, June 3, 2024. During her campaign, Sheinbaum said she would replicate measures that her administration implemented to address gender-based violence while she was mayor of the capital. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate

Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary
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A speckled Zebu cow sleeps inside a stable at the ExpoZebu fair, in Uberaba, Minas gerais state, Saturday, April 27, 2024. In Brazil, 80% of the cows are Zebus, a subspecies originating in India with a distinctive hump and dewlap, or folds of draping neck skin. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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South Korea is suspending a military deal with North Korea after tensions over trash balloons

South Korea have taken steps to suspend a contentious military agreement with North Korea and resume frontline military activities
June 03
South Korea's Prime Minster Han Duck-soo, center, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a contentious military agreement with North Korea, a step that would allow it to take tougher responses to North Korean provocations. (Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap via AP)
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South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a military agreement with North Korea

South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a military agreement with North Korea
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The Latest | India counts votes from a mega-election seen as a referendum on Modi

India has started counting votes from the staggered, six-week election expected to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third term after a decade in power
June 03
FILE-A woman shows her index fingers marked with an indelible ink as she poses for a photograph next to a cutout portrait of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after casting her vote in the seventh and final phase of India's national elections, in Varanasi, India, Saturday, June 1, 2024. Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh,file)
June 03

India begins counting votes after a marathon election widely expected to bring Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third term

India begins counting votes after a marathon election widely expected to bring Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third term
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June 03

Mexico elects first female president

ABC News' Matt Rivers reports on Mexico's historic election that saw its first female president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, and what it could mean for U.S.-Mexico relations.
June 03
VIDEO: Mexico elects first female president
June 03

Craft unfurls China's flag on the far side of the moon and lifts off with lunar rocks to bring home

China says its spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag on the far side of the moon before lifting off with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth
June 03
In this China National Space Administration (CNSA) handout image released by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese national flag carried by the lander of Chang'e-6 probe unfurls at the moon's far side, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. (CNSA/Xinhua via AP)
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China says a spacecraft carrying rocks from the far side of the moon leaves the lunar surface for journey back to Earth

China says a spacecraft carrying rocks from the far side of the moon leaves the lunar surface for journey back to Earth
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In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation

A female-led group of forest rangers in Indonesia are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation
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A ranger writes down a GPS-marked position during a forest patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The female-led group of forest rangers are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
June 03

Modi's party well ahead in Indian elections in early vote count but opposition stiffer than expected

India was counting more than 640 million votes cast over the past six weeks in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a third five-year term when the final result is declared later Tuesday
June 03
A Bharatiya Janta Party supporter prepares to offer prayers to the cut-out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside their party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
June 03
Amanda the dog prepares to receive a medal during a ceremony that recognizes the work of dogs that belong to the Counterintelligence Group of the Army in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
June 03

Mexico elects its 1st female president

Mexico elected its first female president in the country's 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, won the election in a landslide with over 60% of the vote.
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VIDEO: Rivers Mexico president
June 03

Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew

The British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in Northern France didn’t need a calendar to remember June 6, 1944
June 03
A detailed view of the map showing the invasion routes takes by the allied forces to the beaches in Normandy for the D-Day invasion, in the Map room at Southwick army base near Portsmouth, England Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 03

IDF confirms deaths of 4 hostages

The four hostages possibly died as early as December 2023, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement Monday.
June 03
VIDEO: IDF confirms deaths of 4 hostages
June 03

Wives of mobilized Russian soldiers hold rare protest at defense ministry demanding their return

A small group of women got down on their knees outside Russia’s defense ministry to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine
June 03
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Biden says Hamas is sufficiently depleted. Israel leaders disagree, casting doubts over cease-fire

President Joe Biden has called for a quick cease-fire and end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the militant group is no longer capable of launching an attack on Israel like the one on Oct. 7
June 03
FILE - Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Kafar Hamam, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, on May 17, 2024. President Joe Biden has called for a quick ceasefire and end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the militant group is no longer capable of launching an attack on Israel like the one on Oct. 7. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right ministers disagree, saying that destroying Hamas will require continued Israeli military operations in the strip. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
June 03

Slovenia opposition demands referendum on Palestinian state recognition, could delay parliament vote

The main opposition party in Slovenia on Monday filed a motion demanding a referendum on the decision to recognize a Palestinian state, which could delay the formal recognition vote in parliament
June 03
A Palestinian flag flies next to a Slovenian, center, and a European Union flag, right, at the government building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Thursday, May 30, 2024. Slovenia’s government has endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and sent it to parliament for approval. Prime Minister Robert Golob's ruling liberal coalition has a comfortable majority in the 90-member assembly and the vote should be formality. The decision by the Slovenian government on Thursday comes just two days after Spain, Norway and Ireland recognized a Palestinian state. It was a move that was slammed by Israel. (AP Photo)
June 03

Israel declares 4 more hostages are dead in Gaza, including 3 older men from Hamas video

The Israeli military has confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas, including three older men seen in a Hamas video begging for their release
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This undated photo provided by Hostages Families Forum Headquarters shows Chaim Peri, 80. The Israeli military has confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas, including three older adults seen in a Hamas video begging for their release. The three men, Amiram Cooper, Yoram Metzger and Haim Peri, were all age 80 or older. (Hostages Families Forum Headquarters via AP)
June 03

Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages, including three elderly men seen in Hamas video begging for their release

Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages, including three elderly men seen in Hamas video begging for their release
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Greek extreme far-right leader to return to prison after judges rescind his early release

The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release
June 03
FILE - Golden Dawn party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos, escorted by police officers leaves his residence in Athens, Oct. 22, 2020. The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release on Monday June 3, 2024. Nikos Michaloliakos was arrested in his Athens home following the decision, and will be taken back to prison just over a month after his release. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, file)
June 03

Palestinian officials apply to join South Africa's case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide

Palestinian officials have applied at the top U.N. court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
June 03
Israeli soldiers stand on top of tanks in a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Palestinians apply for "State of Palestine" to join South Africa's case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide

Palestinians apply for "State of Palestine" to join South Africa's case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide
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Families shelter in ‘unspeakable conditions’ as Israel pushes deeper into Rafah

More than 1 million people have been displaced, according to the U.N.
June 03
VIDEO: Families shelter in ‘unspeakable conditions’ as Israel pushes deeper into Rafah
June 03

Biden urges Israel, Hamas to accept permanent cease-fire deal

The three-phase plan would stop the fighting, release all hostages and help civilians caught in the middle of the war.
June 03
VIDEO: Biden urges Israel, Hamas to sign off on permanent cease-fire deal
June 03

Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy

The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads
June 03
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, front, attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 6, 2024. The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel's longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 03

International monitor notes some irregularities during Serbia's rerun of municipal election

An international observer says Serbia’s rerun of a troubled municipal election in the capital was marked by misuse of public resources and ruling party dominance but overall was well-run
June 03
A vandalized pre-election billboard shows Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, center, with associates after a local election in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, June 2, 2024. Tensions soared during Serbia's municipal elections Sunday in key cities and towns as ruling populists sought to cement their already vast hold on power in the Balkan country that is a candidate nation for European Union membership. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
June 03

Pakistan's Imran Khan is acquitted of leaking state secrets but remains in prison on other charges

A lawyer for Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan says an appeals court has acquitted him of leaking state secrets
June 03
FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a news conference at his home, in Lahore, Pakistan, on, May 18, 2023. Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has alleged that the recently held parliamentary elections were stolen from his party, which he says is also being victimized. “It was the biggest robbery that was committed on the public mandate,” Khan said Thursday about the Feb. 8 elections in his remarks before a court via video link. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
June 03

Russia's foreign minister again visits Africa, this time in Guinea, as some ties cool with the West

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Guinea on his latest visit to West Africa
June 03
In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Guinea's foreign minister Morissanda Kouyate shake hands near a portrait of Guinea's President Mamadi Doumbouya during their meeting in Conakry, Guinea, Monday, June 3, 2024. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived Monday in Guinea on his latest visit to West Africa, where coups and growing discontent with traditional allies like France and the United States have contributed to some countries' shift towards Moscow. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
June 03

Brigitte Bierlein, Austria's first woman chancellor, dies at 74

Brigitte Bierlein, the former head of Austria’s Constitutional Court who became the country’s first female chancellor in an interim government in 2019, has died
June 03
FILE - Austria's Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, center, arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Brigitte Bierlein, a former head of Austria’s Constitutional Court who became the country’s first female chancellor in an interim government after the previous administration collapsed in a scandal in 2019, has died. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
June 03

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June 03
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
June 03

Hong Kong detains an artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Hong Kong police have briefly detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, signaling the city’s shrinking freedom of expression
June 03
The Police van which detained performance artist Sanmu Chen leaves the Causeway Bay area on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in Hong Kong, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
June 03

Turkey's defense minister says planned elections by Syrian Kurdish groups are 'unacceptable'

Turkey's defense minister says plans by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to hold local elections in northern Syria are “unacceptable" and a threat to Turkey's national security
June 03
FILE- Military officials work around a Russian transport aircraft, carrying parts of the S-400 air defense systems, after it landed at Murted military airport outside Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Turkey's defense minister says plans by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to hold local elections in northern Syria are “unacceptable" and a threat to Turkey's national security. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, File)
June 03

Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum, 1st woman to be president

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president of Mexico, the election institute said.
June 03
Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum waves to her supporters after winning the election, in Mexico City, Mexico, June 3, 2024.
June 03

Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of planning hostile acts on behalf of Russia, Belarus

Poland's interior minister says 18 people have been arrested over the past six months on various allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and Belarus
June 03
FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks during a joint press conference with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola in Kyiv Ukraine, on May 9, 2024. Poland has eighteen people under arrest since December on allegations of pursuing hostile activity or planning sabotage in the country on Russia's and Belarus' bidding, including plans to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the interior minister said Monday June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
June 03

UN monitor says Russia recognizes it would be unsafe now to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Russia may eventually restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that it seized in southeastern Ukraine but shares the view of international monitors that it’s not practical and possibly dangerous to do so now
June 03
June 03

Populist campaigner Nigel Farage makes an about-face and says he will run in the UK election

Pro-Brexit, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage is returning to front-line British politics
June 03
Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference to announce that he will become the new leader of Reform UK and that he will stand as the parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Essex, at The Glaziers Hall in London, Monday June 3, 2024. while on the General Election campaign trail. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
June 03

Mexico's 1st female president faces myriad crises: ANALYSIS

A woman will be president of Mexico for the first time in the country’s history.
June 03
Mexico's presidential candidate for Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates following the results of the general election at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, on June 3, 2024.
June 03

Market jitters follow election of first woman as Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexico’s first female president held out an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but she faces a market meltdown and a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manu...
June 03
Presidential ballots fill a ballot box, during general elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
June 03

U.S. says Congo hasn't given it access to Americans detained over alleged roles in coup attempt

The U.S. Embassy in Congo says Congolese authorities have not shared details or provided access to the Americans who were arrested following a coup attempt last month
June 03
FILE - Rebecca Higbee the mother of Tyler Thompson, points to her son and his friend Marcel during his 21st birthday with his family on Thursday, May 30, 2024, in West Jordan, Utah. A U.S. embassy spokesperson in Congo said Monday, June 3, 2024 that Congolese authorities had not shared details or provided access to any Americans that were arrested following a coup attempt in the country last month, following calls last week from one family trying to confirm whether their son is still alive. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)