#GERMANY: Gov't to Help Rescue Troubled Cruise Ship Builder

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Germany's government will help rescue a major German shipyard that has solid orders for new cruise ships but has run into financial difficulty, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday.

Meyer Werft employs more than 3,000 people in Papenburg on the Ems river in northwestern Germany, near the Dutch border. The company has built 58 cruise ships so far, according to its website.

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CANADA: Conservative Leader Wants Tarriffs On Chinese EVs

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Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre has added his voice to those calling on Canada's federal government to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and associated parts.

Pres. Joe Biden announced in May that the U.S. would be imposing a new 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). Washington is also imposing tariffs on Chinese-made advanced batteries, solar cells, steel and aluminium used for EVs.

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#EU: European Pres. Picks Fight With Italy's PM Meloni

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Giorgia Meloni is in a fight with EU leader Ursula von der Leyen. And it could get ugly.

The Italian prime minister is furious about the European Commission’s annual rule of law report, which made allegations about press freedom in Italy and the independence of its public broadcaster, Rai. 

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#JAPAN: New US Military Command Center Announced

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The U.S. will establish a new military command in Japan to bolster security ties as Washington moves to strengthen its Asia allies in the face of China’s military buildup, top American and Japanese officials said Sunday.

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#UK: Four Seek Conservative Party Leadership

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Mel Stride will announce his candidacy in the Conservative leadership race to replace Rishi Sunak on Friday.

The former work and pensions secretary says he has the backing of the 10 MPs needed to progress to the next stage of the contest.

He becomes the fourth person to throw their hat in the ring after former Home Secretary James Cleverly and former Home Office ministers Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick.

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#CHINA: Gov't To Slowly Raise Retirement Age

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China will gradually raise its statutory retirement age in the next five years to try to cope with its ageing population and buckling pension system.

Life expectancy in the country is now 78. But China's retirement age is among the lowest in the world - at 60 for men, 55 for women in white-collar jobs and 50 for working-class women.

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#BANGLADESH: PM Blames Opposition For Political Violence

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Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed her political opponents for the deadly unrest in the country that have left over 150 dead, adding she was "forced" to impose a curfew for public safety.

"We will lift the curfew whenever the situation gets better," she said on Monday in a meeting with business leaders in the capital Dhaka.

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#KENYA: Pres. Ruto Says US Agency Hired Violent "Goons" During Protests

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Kenyan President William Ruto has accused the Ford Foundation, an American private foundation, of sponsoring violence during recent anti-government protests.

Speaking in Nakuru, Kenya on Monday, Ruto claimed that the Foundation hired goons tto cause mayhem during the protests which led to the destruction of property and looting of businesses.

He challenged the organization to rebut the allegations and threatened to expel them from the east African nation.

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#IRAN: Moderate Defeats Hardliner for President

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Reformist Masod Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran's new president, beating his hardline conservative rival Saeed Jalili.

The vote was declared in Dr Pezeshkian's favor after he secured 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted. Jalili polled at 44.3%.

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#UK: Starmer's Labour Party Wins Stunning Majority; Sunak To Resign As Tory Leader

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The Labour Party has secured a landslide victory in the UK election to end 14 years of Conservative rule. “We did it!” Keir Starmer, the Labour Party Leader and incoming prime minister, said in his victory speech. “Change begins now.”

Outgoing Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded defeat, saying it has been a “difficult night." He said: "Following this result, I will step down as party leader, not immediately, but once the formal arrangements for selecting my successor are in place."

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#FRANCE: Le Pen's Party Wins First Round of Parliamentary Elections

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Marine Le Pen's right-leaning National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final result will depend on days of horsetrading before next week's run-off.

The RN was seen winning around 34% of the vote, exit polls from Ipsos, Ifop, OpinionWay and Elabe showed, in a huge setback for President Emmanuel Macron who had called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections earlier this month.

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#FRANCE: Pres.Macron Dissolves Parliament After Right-Leaning Party Gains In EU Election

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French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the French Parliament and called snap elections in the wake of European election results. Exit polls show Marine Le Pen's National Rally are set to trounce Macron's party in a historic win for the party. 

French parliamentary elections will be held on 30 June and 7 July. Right-leaning parties have also reportedly made substantial gains in Austria and Germany, exit polls say.

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#MEXICO: Voters Choose First Woman President

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Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected the first female president in Mexico’s 200-year history.

Sheinbaum, the favored successor of outgoing Pres. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vowed to continue on the direction set by the populist leftist leader. But the cool-tempered scientist offers a sharp contrast in style — and a break with Mexico’s male-dominated political culture.

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#SOUTHAFRICA: ANC Loses Majority In Election, Must Seek Coalition

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The African National Congress (ANC) Party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. Now, it will have to seek coalition partners with other parties to firm a government for the first time.

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#HONGKONG: Court Finds 14 Freedom Campaigners "Guilty of Subversion"

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Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law.

They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 such as nurse Winnie Yu.

They were among the 47 activists charged with trying to "overthrow" the government by organising an unofficial primary in 2020 to pick candidates who can run for office.

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#CROATIA: New Coalition Govt Formed With Rightist Party

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Croatia’s parliament on has approved a new coalition government allying the ruling conservatives with a right-wing nationalist party.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković formed the new government with members of the nationalist anti-migrant Homeland Movement (DP) party following an inconclusive election last month.

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#UK: Labour Party Shadow Chancellor Says No Tax Hikes If They Win Election

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A representative of the UK's Left-leaning Labour Party has said there will be no hikes in income tax or National Insurance if it wins the general election, which is widely expected - but some spending cuts have not been ruled out, she said.

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she did not want to make any spending cuts.

But she added she was "under no illusion about the scale of the challenge" and would face "difficult decisions," she said.

the UK's Labour Party has repeatedly criticized the incumbent Conservatives for not spending enough on Healthcare and other priorities, which will make Reeves' promise hard to swallow among Labour voters and hard to believe among Conservative ones.

If Labour needs other parties to form a coalition with them to form a government, it's unclear if Reeves would be able to keep her promise. 

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#BURKINAFASO: Military Gov't Extends Power Five Years

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Burkina Faso's military government has announced it will extend junta rule for another five years.

The west African country's ruler, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, will also be able to contest the next presidential election, the state-owned broadcaster says.

When he seized power in a coup nearly two years ago, Capt Traore pledged to restore the civilian government by July 1st of this year.

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#EU: Far-Right Parties In Turmoil Ahead of EU Elections

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Infighting among some of Europe’s most prominent far-right parties has thrown pre-election campaigning into turmoil, threatening to tarnish a parliamentary vote that was supposed to see the ultra-conservative groups make major gains.

France's Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said her National Rally, or RN, would break ties with the Alternative for Germany after the AfD’s lead candidate, Maximilian Krah. said that not all members of the Nazi SS paramilitary organization were criminals.

In a further blow to the embattled German party, the Identity and Democracy alliance in the European Parliament, which includes RN, expelled the AfD after a vote among its members, ID said in a Thursday statement on the social media site X.

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#UK: PM Sunak Calls July 4 Election

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British Prime Minister (PM) Rishi Sunak has announced a snap general election to be held in the United Kingdom on July 4, despite having until January next year to hold one. 

Sunak, who is leader of the Conservative Party, and leaders of other political parties began their election campaigns on Thursday.

The Conservative Party, which has been in power for 14 years, is widely expected to lose hold on Parliament and 10 Downing Street.

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