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UK's glum Conservatives try to shift the mood with election promises as polling day nears
Rishi Sunak doesn’t know whether he’ll still be Britain’s prime minister the day after next month’s election. What is unusual is that he’s been forced to deny rumors he could quit even before polling day, amid alarm inside the governing Conservative Party over Sunak’s lackluster campaign. Sunak gets a chance — maybe one of his last — to change the narrative on Tuesday when he releases the Conservatives' manifesto, a handbook of policies that forms each U.K. party's blueprint for power.
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Utah governor looks to rebound in primary debate after harsh reception at GOP convention
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is set to debate his primary challenger in a face-to-face duel Tuesday on the heals of defeat for the nomination at the state GOP convention, where he was loudly booed by delegates who argued the incumbent is too moderate to continue representing the state. Despite failing to secure his party's nod, Cox is considered the overwhelming favorite among Republican voters statewide. The convention often favors farther-right candidates and expectedly endorsed challenger Phil Lyman, a former county commissioner turned state legislator.
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Analysis-Infighting over budget imperils Germany’s defence upgrade
Budget infighting within Germany's governing coalition is jeopardising its plan to meet defence commitments to Western allies even as tensions with Russia rise and a NATO-sceptic Donald Trump bids for a second term as U.S. president. Since the 1990s Germany has thrown off its post-World War Two aversion to military action. Days after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz surprised allies by announcing a "Zeitenwende" – German for a historic turning point - with a 100-billion-euro ($107 billion) special fund to bring the military back up to speed.
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Memorial service set for a Minneapolis police officer killed responding to a shooting call
A Minneapolis police officer who was killed by a man he was trying to help at the site of a shooting will be memorialized at a public ceremony Tuesday. Investigators are calling the May 30 shooting of Officer Jamal Mitchell an ambush. Mitchell had been with the Minneapolis Police Department for about 18 months.
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Germany hosts recovery conference for Ukraine before a peace summit in Switzerland
Germany is hosting a conference on Tuesday to gather support for Ukraine's recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia's war, sending a new signal of solidarity with Kyiv at the start of a week of intense diplomacy. The two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin, following up on a similar gathering in London a year ago, comes before the Group of Seven summit of Ukraine's leading Western allies in Italy and a global peace summit in Switzerland this coming weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who last week attended events marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France, is expected at the gathering, which the German hosts say will bring together 2,000 people from politics, business and other areas.
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Analysis-South Africa's unity government must harmonise wildly different visions
Talks to forge South Africa's post-election unity government will need to bring together parties with goals as contradictory as seizing white-owned farms and mines, ditching Black empowerment policies and tearing up the constitution. How well the African National Congress (ANC) harmonises these divergent and mutually hostile visions will determine the government's stability, its ability to make decisions and its policy priorities over the next five years. It will also test Nelson Mandela's 1994 aspiration for a "rainbow nation at peace with itself", as politicians try to navigate historical ethnic and racial enmities that were starkly exposed by the May 29 election.
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A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia's buzzy new beer. But it's unclear if the world will buy in
If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. It remains questionable whether Bolivia can persuade the world to accept the hardy green leaf best known beyond its borders as the main ingredient of cocaine. “Exporting is a desire that my people and I have had since I was a child,” said Lizzette Torrez, leader of one of Bolivia's main coca-grower unions.
TODAY
Popeyes enters the fast-food value wars with $6.99 meal
Popeyes enters the fast-food value wars with a $6.99 meal of its own. Here's what comes in it.
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S. Korea fires warning shots after N. Korea soldiers briefly cross border
South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, Seoul's military said Tuesday, with tensions high over Pyongyang's trash-carrying balloons and the South's retaliatory loudspeaker campaign.In recent weeks, North Korea has sent more than a thousand balloons laden with trash such as cigarette butts and toilet paper southward, a response, it says, to balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda sent north by activists.
CNN
French Polynesia has a culinary secret. It’s home to mouth-watering Chinese fusion food
The story of how Chinese cuisine evolved to become one of French Polynesia’s top culinary offerings – and where to find the best of it.
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As Congress investigates the Osprey, families balance grief with pilots' love for the warplane
The V-22 Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan last November has brought the aircraft's safety record back under scrutiny — but this time without one of its most vocal defenders. Air Force Maj. Jeff Hoernemann had piloted the Osprey for more than a decade. In November he and seven others were killed when their Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22B Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan.
AFP
Blinken in Israel to push ceasefire plan for Gaza
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with key Israeli opposition figures on Tuesday, a day after he arrived in the country to push a ceasefire plan for the war in Gaza.In Jerusalem, Blinken told Netanyahu it would "unlock the possibility of calm along Israel's northern border and further integration with countries in the region", according to the State Department.
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With 100M birds dead, poultry industry could serve as example as dairy farmers confront bird flu
As the U.S. dairy industry confronts a bird flu outbreak, with cases reported at dozens of farms and the disease spreading to people, the egg industry could serve as an example of how to slow the disease but also shows how difficult it can be to eradicate the virus. There have been earlier bird flu outbreaks in the U.S., but the current one started in February 2022 and has forced the slaughter of nearly 100 million chickens and turkeys. It's commonly called bird flu because the disease is largely spread by wild birds that can survive infections.
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Nevada Republicans prepare to choose a candidate to face Jacky Rosen in critical Senate race
Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown hopes a late endorsement from former President Donald Trump will help carry him to victory in the state’s GOP Senate primary on Tuesday and give him the momentum he needs to win a general election race that Republicans see as one of their best chances to pick up a seat in the closely divided chamber. The winner of Tuesday's GOP Senate primary will square off with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in a fierce swing-state Senate race. Rosen, a first-term moderate defending her seat in a state that also could figure heavily in the presidential race, is one of Republicans’ top targets in 2024.
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Hunter Biden Trial Day 6: Jury begins deliberations after closing arguments
Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial began deliberating on Monday after they heard new evidence from a witness about the defendant’s drug usage around the time when he is alleged to have illegally purchased a firearm.
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Biden and gun-control advocates want to flip an issue long dominated by the NRA
Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and other public places, to say nothing of the nation's daily gun violence. Now, gun-control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hardline positions of the gun lobby and their most influential champion, former President Donald Trump. “It is a false choice to suggest that you have to be in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,” Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday in Maryland, where she spoke as part of a series of White House and campaign events focused on gun violence.
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Singapore Airlines offers compensation to passengers on flight that hit extreme turbulence
Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it has offered compensation to passengers of a flight that hit extreme turbulence last month, in a rare case that killed one passenger and injured dozens. The Being 777 jet, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew from London to Singapore, ran into sudden turbulence over the Irrawaddy basin on May 20, hurling people and items around the cabin. Singapore Airlines said it has offered $10,000 in compensation for passengers with minor injuries.
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US Rep. Nancy Mace faces primary challenge in South Carolina after tumultuous term
Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is seeking a third term with the backing of someone who tried to stop her from getting a second — former President Donald Trump. The Trump endorsement after he called her crazy and terrible in 2022 is just one of many ways Mace has attracted a spotlight far greater than a typical second-term member of Congress. Mace has said her positions and beliefs aren't erratic — she is just reflecting the values of the 1st District, which stretches from the centuries-old neighborhoods of Charleston down the coast to Beaufort County's booming freshly built neighborhoods of retirees moving to South Carolina from somewhere else.
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Jurors will resume deliberations in federal gun case against President Joe Biden's son Hunter
Jurors will resume deliberations Tuesday in the criminal case against President Joe Biden's son over a gun Hunter Biden bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. Prosecutors spent last week using testimony from his ex-wife and former girlfriends, photos of Hunter Biden with drug paraphernalia and other tawdry evidence to make the case that he lied when he checked “no” on the form at the gun shop that asked whether he was “an unlawful user of, or addicted to” drugs.
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Rudy Giuliani’s mug shot released in Arizona 'fake electors' case
Local officials in Arizona released a mug shot of Rudy Giuliani on Monday in connection with his indictment on state charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

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