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Republican Vince Fong wins race to replace Kevin McCarthy, padding House GOP’s slim majority
Vince Fong won the California special election to fill former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s seat, a victory that will pad a narrow House GOP majority.
AFP
Vietnam votes in public security minister as president
Vietnam's rubber-stamp parliament voted in public security minister To Lam as the country's new president on Wednesday, after a major anti-corruption campaign forced his predecessor to resign.Lam, 66, had been public security minister since 2016 and has taken a hard line on human rights movements in the country.
AFP
European states to move on Palestine recognition as Gaza war rages
At least three European countries were expected to announce steps towards recognising a Palestinian state on Wednesday, after more than seven months of devastating fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.Irish media reported that the government was expected to announce its formal recognition of a Palestinian state at a press conference by premier Simon Harris, deputy premier Micheal Martin and minister Eamon Ryan at 0700 GMT. Norway was expected to make a similar announcement around
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Fear brews in Turkey's landslide-plagued tea hills
Every time it rains heavily in Turkey's spectacular Black Sea tea growing region -- where it rains a lot -- Zikrullah Komurcu starts to worry."Every time it rains we wonder if there will be another landslide," Medine said.
Reuters
After Israel defense, US sees chance to entice Gulf allies on missile shield
The United States hopes defense meetings in Riyadh on Wednesday will help advance a long-standing goal of building a regional missile shield, bolstered by Israel's successful defense against waves of incoming Iranian missiles and drones last month, U.S. officials say. But it's unclear whether Gulf allies have the same confidence the U.S. would rush to their defense, or if those allies are willing to take the steps needed to truly integrate their defenses in a region that has longed hedged its bets, according to former U.S. officials and experts. The May 22 meeting in Riyadh of the U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) comes just over a month after the United States, Britain and other allies helped Israel knock down hundreds of missiles and drones, mostly launched from inside Iran.
Politico
Left struggles in Oregon: 5 takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Progressive candidates flopped in two contested House primaries, and the reform-minded incumbent DA in Portland trails in the early vote count.
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Tornado-spawning storms left multiple people dead in Iowa and are now threatening cities from Texas to New York
Some Iowa communities will be waking up Wednesday to sift through the rubble of now-unrecognizable homes and mourn the deaths of neighbors who were killed by a series of tornado-spawning storms that tore through the Midwest yesterday and are now setting their sights on a much broader swath of the US.
Reuters
G7 finance chiefs seek common line on Russian assets, China
G7 finance chiefs meeting in Italy this week will attempt to find common ground over how to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort and how to address China's growing export strength in key markets, officials said. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies - the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada - will gather in the northern Italian lakeside town of Stresa on Friday and Saturday. G7 negotiators have been discussing for weeks how to best exploit some $300 billion worth of Russian financial assets, such as major currencies and government bonds, which were frozen shortly after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
AFP
Volunteers race to save Mexico's howler monkeys in heat wave
Volunteers are rushing to hoist food and water up into trees in sweltering southern Mexico, but help came too late for the howler monkeys whose lifeless bodies lay still on the ground.The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), which also lives in southern Mexico as well as Central and South America, is classified as vulnerable on the Red List of Threatened Species.
Reuters
Norway to recognise Palestinian state, NRK and Aftenposten report
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's government will announce on Wednesday that the Nordic country recognises an independent Palestinian state, public broadcaster NRK and daily Aftenposten reported, citing unnamed sources. The Norwegian prime minister's office and the foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Irish government will also announce on Wednesday the recognition of a Palestinian state, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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South Africa election: How Mandela's once revered ANC lost its way with infighting and scandals
For years, the African National Congress rose above politics in South Africa. It was a movement dedicated to freeing Black people from the oppression of white minority rule and to the lofty principle of democracy, equality and a better life for all South Africans. It was widely revered as a force for good under Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison for his opposition to the apartheid system of racial segregation.
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Iran's supreme leader presides over funeral for president and others killed in helicopter crash
Iran's supreme leader presided over a funeral Wednesday for the country's late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held the service at Tehran University, the caskets of the dead draped in Iranian flags with their pictures on them. On the late President Ebrahim Raisi's coffin sat a black turban — signifying his direct descendance from Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks
As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of slowing, Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with bulldozers to dig trenches and enlarge fire breaks for the sprawling complex where nuclear weapons are assembled and disassembled and dangerous plutonium pits — hollow spheres that trigger nuclear warheads and bombs — are stored. “The winds can pick up really (quickly) here and can move really fast,” said Jason Armstrong, the federal field office manager at Pantex, outside Amarillo, who was awake 40 hours straight monitoring the risks.
Reuters
Analysis-Europe stock pickers go old-school to ride the next wave in AI
European stock pickers are turning to more established sectors like utilities, professional data providers and even copper miners to tap into the next wave of the AI boom, a year after AI chipmaker Nvidia's emergence as a driving force. Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence helped drive a rally across equity markets in 2023, propelling Nvidia and Dutch semiconductor equipment supplier ASML into the spotlight. Nvidia shares are hovering close to record highs ahead of its quarterly earnings due late on Wednesday.
AFP
Tens of thousands gather for Raisi funeral procession in Tehran
Tens of thousands of Iranians flocked to the streets of Tehran Wednesday to join the funeral processions of president Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday.- Burial in Mashhad - Funeral rites for the late president and his entourage began on Tuesday with tens of thousands of black-clad mourners in attendance in the city of Tabriz and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom.
Reuters
Analysis-Earnings from AI-heavyweight Nvidia to test US stocks’ record run
Earnings from semiconductor bellwether Nvidia on Wednesday are set to provide the latest test for a U.S. stock market rally that has taken indexes to record highs this year. A 90% run in Nvidia’s shares this year has made it the third-biggest U.S. company by market value, trailing only Microsoft and Apple. Because Nvidia’s chips are the gold standard in artificial intelligence, its results are widely seen as a barometer for the burgeoning AI industry, whose evolution has stoked investor enthusiasm and helped drive the bull run in U.S. stocks.
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Half Moon Bay farms to pay workers $450K in back wages and damages in probe that began after deadly shooting, feds say
Two mushroom farms in Northern California agreed to pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages for dozens of employees stemming from a federal work- and living-conditions investigation that started after seven people were fatally shot there in 2023, the US Department of Labor said this week.
CNN
French President Emmanuel Macron heads to violence-hit New Caledonia
French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia, a government official has said, after a week of deadly unrest in the Pacific archipelago.
AFP
Embryo activist: baby's lawsuit takes on S. Korea climate inaction
When he was a 20-week-old embryo -- before he even had a real name -- Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest-ever plaintiffs by joining a groundbreaking climate lawsuit against South Korea.Choi or "Woodpecker" -- his parents heard the bird's call after learning they were pregnant, Lee said -- is the youngest of the 62 children involved, although most were under five when the suit was first filed in 2022.
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Tornado kills multiple people in Iowa as powerful storms again tear through Midwest
Multiple people were killed when a tornado tore through Greenfield and left a wide swath of obliterated homes, crumpled cars and splintered trees, while outside the small town, massive wind turbines were buckled and twisted to the ground by the howling winds. After devastating the town of 2,000 residents, the storms moved eastward to pummel parts of Illinois and Wisconsin, knocking out power to more than 130,000 customers in the two states. Greenfield's hospital was among the buildings that were damaged in the town, which meant that at least a dozen people who were hurt had to be taken to facilities elsewhere, according to Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla.

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