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Biden to give D-Day anniversary speech; Fat Joe fights for hospital price transparency

8:03am June 05, 2024

by Suzanne Nuyen

President Biden will deliver a defense of democracy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Why rapper Fat Joe is fighting for hospital price transparency.

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A gunman was captured after a shootout near the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon

6:23am June 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Lebanese military said that soldiers shot an assailant, who they only described as a Syrian national. The gunman was wounded and taken to a hospital. The shooter's motives were not clear.

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Modi has declared victory in India's election, but not the landslide he expected

10:10pm June 04, 2024

by Omkar Khandekar

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won a third term, but voters drastically clipped his wings by handing his alliance a narrower margin than predicted.

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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi flashes victory signs as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the country's general election, in New Delhi, on Tuesday.

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Indian Prime Minister Modi Wins A Third Term

7:29pm June 04, 2024

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third win is rare, but is tempered by his party's loss of a parliamentary majority.

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Morning news brief

5:26pm June 04, 2024

President Biden is expected to announce new asylum rules. After a month-long election in India, the prime minister's party is in the lead. A chemical in ecstasy may soon be approved to treat PTSD.

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India lost the manufacturing race to China. Here's why it could still succeed

2:36pm June 04, 2024

by Greg Rosalsky

India “missed the bus” on manufacturing. A new book argues that India can nonetheless grow rich by leapfrogging to an economy dominated by high-skills services.

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A family fled Rafah as the war closed in. Now they're living in a bombed-out school

11:17am June 04, 2024

A classroom in a bombed-out school has become a shelter for an extended family of 20 Palestinians. They fled Rafah after Israel's latest offensive in the southern Gaza city.

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Heavy security in China and Hong Kong on 35th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown

5:38am June 04, 2024

by Associated Press

China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. The death toll remains unknown to this day.

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As their time runs short, D-Day veterans try to keep their memories alive for others

5:30am June 04, 2024

by The Associated Press

With even the youngest of those men and women who were involved in the invasion nearing their 100th birthdays and their ranks dwindling rapidly, they feel a special imperative to tell their stories.

Claudia Sheinbaum celebrating during her speech in Mexico City on Sunday.

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La Presidenta: Mexico Elects Its First Woman to the Presidency

6:07pm June 03, 2024

For the first time since their country became a republic more than two hundred years ago, Mexicans have elected a woman as president. And Ukraine's center for book publishing survives a punishing Russian bombardment.

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