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New Delhi — Narendra Modi was sworn in Sunday for a rare third consecutive term as India’s prime minister, relying on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome.

Modi and his Cabinet ministers took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

The 73-year-old popular but polarizing leader is only the second Indian prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to retain power for a third five-year term.

His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which won by landslides in 2014 and 2019, failed to secure a majority to govern on its own in the latest national election. However, Modi’s National Democratic Alliance coalition won enough seats to form a government, with him at the helm.

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Four American teachers were stabbed in broad daylight in China on Monday, and police said Tuesday that the suspect remains at large.

The educators—who are affiliated with Iowa’s Cornell College, a small liberal arts college about two hours east of Des Moines, and were in China as part of a partnership with Beihua University in Jilin, a northeastern province—were “injured in a serious incident” while they were visiting a public park accompanied by a Beihua faculty member, school president Jonathan Bard announced in an email to the Cornell community. “We have been in contact with all four instructors and are assisting them during this time,” Bard said, adding that no students were taking part in the program.

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Thousands of Georgians rallied Tuesday outside parliament after ruling party MPs adopted a divisive “foreign influence” law, overcoming a presidential veto on the bill despite Western warnings the move could jeopardise the country’s path to the European Union.

The law, which critics have compared to repressive Russian legislation used to silence dissent, forces groups receiving at least 20 percent of funding from abroad to register as “organisations pursuing the interests of a foreign power.”

The proposal has drawn fierce opposition from Western governments including the United States, which said the measure risked “stifling” freedom of expression in the Black Sea Caucasus nation.

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Addressing Arab leaders at the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinpingsaid that China firmly supports establishment of an independent Palestine state enjoying full sovereignty and the Palestinians’ bid to become a full member state of the United Nations, TRT reported.

The Chinese leader reiterated a call for an “urgent” ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave and warned on Thursday that justice in West Asia cannot be “absent forever”.

“West Asia is a land bestowed with broad prospects for development… justice should not be absent forever,” Xi told Arab leaders at the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing, according to a foreign ministry readout, calling for “a more broad-based, authoritative and effective international peace conference”.

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SIX Nato nations are planning to create a “drone wall” to shield the alliance’s eastern flank from the growing threat of Russia.

Thousands of surveillance and possibly armed drones are set to patrol the tense frontier all the way from Norway to Poland.

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Myanmar’s Currency Hits All-Time Low, Gold Surges to Fresh Peak  The Irrawaddy

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(Bloomberg) — Keir Starmer’s opposition Labour Party extended its poll lead over the Conservatives even as Rishi Sunak’s party unveiled a series of pledges intended to build momentum early in UK election campaigning, YouGov said.

Labour was 27 points ahead of the Tories in the survey by YouGov, which was commissioned by Sky News and conducted from May 27 to May 28. The poll, with a sample size of 2,128 adults, found 47% of voters backing Labour, compared with 44% three days earlier. Tory support fell two percentage points to 20%.

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Netanyahu wins back public support under shadow of Gaza genocide: Poll  The Cradle

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a stern warning to those engaging in criminal activities and causing chaos, promising decisive action against such elements.

This warning comes in the wake of recent disturbances where bus operators and touts have disrupted public safety. During a ceremony in Harare on Wednesday, ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga addressed the issue while conferring badges of rank to newly promoted senior officers.

Commissioner-General Matanga emphasized the importance of maintaining order to achieve Zimbabwe’s National Vision 2030. “This vision can only be realized if we reduce the fear of crime in our society,” he said.

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President Biden Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of El Salvador to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Nayib Bukele

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Nayib Bukele on June 1, 2024, in San Salvador, El Salvador.

The Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will lead the delegation.

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Brussels is reportedly considering whether to subject the Russian-made platform to its ‘disinformation’ laws

EU officials are considering listing Telegram as a “very large online platform,” a move that would open the privacy-focused messaging app up to stringent censorship rules, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Bloomberg’s report cited anonymous sources who claimed that Brussels has reached out to Telegram in a bid to establish how many people regularly use the platform. Telegram claims that it has around 41 million monthly active users, a figure that places it below the EU’s 45-million-user threshold for strict regulation under its Digital Services Act (DSA).

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday fired a barrage of suspected ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, according to South Korea’s military, days after its attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure but still drew strong condemnation from its rivals.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing around 10 projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles from an area near its capital, Pyongyang. It said the suspected missiles flew around 350 kilometers (217 miles) before landing in waters off the North’s eastern coast. It said the South Korean military has increased surveillance and vigilance and is closely sharing information with the United States and Japan.

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An archaeological dig in France uncovered over two dozen dead horses and left researchers with a puzzling mystery.

The excavation, located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in Central France, uncovered several buildings, pits, ditches and even a pathway from the early Middle Ages, according to a news release from the country’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research. The finds included nine pits containing the remains of horses.

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About 260 North Korean balloons have been found all over the country, filled with various pieces of trash and manure.

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Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler will be dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world’s top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship.

Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell, a local prosecutor, asked a judge Wednesday afternoon to drop the four charges against Scheffle, who was not required to be in the courtroom Wednesday in Louisville, Ky.

“Based upon the totality of the evidence, my office cannot move forward in the prosecution of the charges filed against Mr. Scheffler,” O’Connell said during the hearing that lasted less than 10 minutes. “Mr. Scheffler’s characterization that this was ‘a big misunderstanding’ is corroborated by the evidence.”

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Warsaw does not impose any restrictions on Kyiv regarding the use of Polish weapons in the war with Russia.

Deputy Minister of National Defence of Poland Cezary Tomczyk said this on ZET radio, answering the question whether Polish weapons could be used against targets in Russia, Ukrinform reports.

According to the Polish official, Ukraine “has the right to defend itself as it sees fit”.

He stressed that Western countries should lift restrictions on the use of weapons transferred to Ukraine.

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker struck a nerve. In a commencement address at Benedictine College in Kansas, he ventured to female graduates that some “careers in the world” are less fulfilling than many believe. He also suggested that being a homemaker is “one of the most important titles,” praising his wife Isabelle for “living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.” Many liberals seemed horrified—and apparently unaware that liberal lawmakers have long promoted homemaking over paid employment.

In response to Butker’s remarks, Change.org circulated an online petition that suggested his comments “reinforce harmful stereotypes that threaten social progress,” and called for him to be fired. Maria Shriver submitted that “it’s demeaning to women to imply that their choices outside of wife and motherhood pale in comparison to that of a homemaker.” Jason Page of MSNBC assailed “the ignorance of a kicker telling women to stay at home and pop out babies in a subservient manner while worshipping their husbands.” Even nuns affiliated with Benedictine College weighed in, saying “one of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman.”

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“We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it’s not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, it’s not enough,” said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, UN World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Palestine.

Speaking in Geneva on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, the senior WHO official echoed widespread international condemnation of the Israeli airstrike at a camp for displaced people at Tal as-Sultan northwest of Rafah, that left scores dead on Sunday.

“WHO actually deplores this attack, this attack on displaced people. And it demonstrates that there is no safe place in Gaza at all,” he told UN News, as video from the field hospital treating victims distributed by the UN aid office, OCHA, showed an injured father weeping as he described the moment his children died.

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VIENTIANE The first session of the Việt Nam -Laos Committee for Cooperation in Technology and Innovation took place in Vientiane, Laos, on May 28.

At the meeting, Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Huỳnh Thành Đạt and Lao Minister of Technology and Communications Boviengkham Vongdara agreed to expand bilateral technological and innovative cooperation. They discussed diversifying forms of joint work to meet the sustainable development strategies of each country and the new international context, in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and current global development trends.

The two sides agreed to systematically consult on the organisation and management of technology and innovation to effectively utilise the potential of both countries in this field.