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British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged Monday to keep the U.K.’s nuclear weapons, seeking to dispel criticisms that his center-left Labour Party is soft on defense. Starmer is the current favorite to win Britain’s July 4 election and become prime minister.
GameStop stock surged as its biggest booster late Sunday appeared to reveal a new bold bet on the video game retailer.
Jennifer and Eric Mauchan live in a Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts that they've been cooling with five air conditioners. In the summer, the electric bill for the 2,600-square-foot home can be $200. In the winter, heating with natural gas is often more than $300 a month, even with the temperature set at 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius).
The Jacksonville display came after the Florida Department of Transportation said state-owned bridges would be lit in red, white and blue this summer.
How did a goldfish end up in a U.K. doctor's garden with no pond around? Here's the story of Alice, aka "Lazarus, aka The Fish Who Lived."
Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a former Revolutionary Guards commander, on Monday announced he would run for president to succeed Ebrahim Raisi who died last month in a helicopter crash, state media reported. Qalibaf, who has unsuccessfully contested two presidential races and dropped out of a third to avoid splitting the hardline vote, signed up to run in the June 28 election despite being re-elected as parliament speaker last week. Qalibaf registered as a candidate on the last day of a five-day registration period on Monday.
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was acquitted on charges of leaking state secrets on Monday after his conviction was overturned, but he will remain in prison in other cases. It was one of four cases in which the 71-year-old former cricket star, who has been in jail since August last year, had been convicted ahead of a national election in February. In two of those cases the sentences have since been suspended while he appeals.
A total of 37 candidates had been assassinated ahead of Sunday’s vote in Mexico, a security consultancy says.
US stocks are eyeing an upbeat start to June as hopes for rate cuts revive and the meme-stock mania roars back
The island nation in South Asia announced it would ban people with an Israeli passport from entering, along with plans to fundraise for Palestinians.
Claudia Sheinbaum claimed victory in Mexico’s presidential election, becoming the first woman selected for the job by promising to continue the political course set by her populist predecessor despite widespread discontent with persistent cartel violence and disappointing economic performance. The climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor was the favored successor of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum said Sunday night that her two competitors had called her and conceded in an election that guaranteed Mexico would make history.
On the same scorching day last month, Israeli troops fought street battles with Hamas militants in Gaza, its fighter jets struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and soldiers exchanged fire with Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank.According to Palestinian officials, at least 521 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops or settlers since the start of the Gaza war.
The FDA is investigating to see if tainted cucumber sample is related to an ongoing salmonella outbreak that has sickened 141.
Palestinian Umm Mohammed Khrouat says she would rather live in a tent than the school where she is forced to shelter with her five children in northern Gaza, so bad are the conditions after nearly eight months of war. "There is no hygiene, or water," said Umm Mohammed, baking bread in a makeshift oven at the school in Jabalia refugee camp, a recent theatre of Israeli military operations in the war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Her family, which fled their home in nearby Beit Hanoun early in the war, have been forced to flee the school multiple times, most recently last month when Israeli forces renewed operations in the area, Umm Mohammed said.
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthis on Monday held a public funeral in the capital Sanaa for more than a dozen fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes last week.In February, the Huthis held a mass funeral for 17 fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes. bur/ho/ami
Microsoft said Monday that it would invest 33.7 billion kronor ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, its biggest investment in the country.The US group has in recent months announced similar AI investments in other countries, including in France where it vowed to invest four billion euros ($4.3 billion), Japan where it announced a $2.9 billion AI push, and in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Two pro-Russian activists in Germany, whose ties to the Kremlin were revealed in a Reuters investigation last year, have left Germany and moved to Russia, the couple’s lawyer said in a statement on Monday. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Elena Kolbasnikova and her romantic partner Max Schlund have been active in Germany, organising pro-Kremlin rallies to urge Berlin to abandon its military support to Kyiv. The Reuters investigation last year identified them as among key individuals pushing a pro-Moscow stance in Germany and revealed that they had received financial help from a Russian government agency.
Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum. Simone Biles qualifies for Olympic trials. Ex-intel officers warn Trump could weaponize U.S. spy services if he’s elected to a second term.
Ahead of high temperatures forecast this week, firefighters continue battling a 14,000-acre wildfire east of San Francisco.
The trial of President Joe Biden’s son on federal gun charges comes just days after former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial ended.