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      4 June

      Three Israeli soldiers killed after incident on Egyptian border

      Three Israeli soldiers have been killed in a major incident on the Egyptian border on Saturday morning. The bodies of two soldiers, a man and a woman, were found around 8.30am local time; the third soldier, a man, was killed in a firefight during the resulting manhunt. It happened inside Israeli territory and is believed to have happened at close range. The dead gunman has been confirmed as an Egyptian policeman. A few hours earlier, around 2.30am on Saturday, a major cross-border drug smuggling operation was thwarted by Israeli security in the same area, near Nitzana. Around $400,000 worth of contraband was seized – it’s still unclear whether the two incidents are linked. An investigation is ongoing. Following reports of…

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    • 4 June

      Erdogan sworn is as Turkey’s president for unprecedented third term

      Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken his oath to be sworn in as Turkey’s president for an unprecedented third time. Mr Erdogan won another five-year term after a run-off with opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu last week. Neither candidate had failed to reach the 50% threshold on 14 May, but the second round two weeks later saw Mr Erdogan secure 52.1%. The 69-year-old was sworn in at the Turkish parliament in Ankara on Saturday ahead of a separate inauguration ceremony at the mausoleum – the founder of modern Turkey, attended by foreign dignitaries. This makes him the longest-serving leader in Turkey’s history – having served as prime minister for his AK party since 2002. He will announce his new cabinet later this weekend. Mr Erdogan’s…

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    • 4 June

      Braverman’s curbs on foreign students watered down over tuition fee fears

      Suella Braverman’s plans to cut the number of foreign students in the UK were watered down amid fears they would increase tuition fees for British students, The Telegraph can reveal. The Department for Education (DfE) blocked the Home Secretary’s desire for radical cuts by arguing that international students “subsidise” home fees. It comes as the latest published figures show that foreign student fees made up 21 per cent of UK universities’ overall income in 2021-22. New restrictions on family Last month, the Home Office announced new restrictions on the ability of foreign students to bring family members to the UK in a bid to reduce annual net migration, which has now hit 606,000. From next year, only students on postgraduate research courses will be able to…

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    • 3 June

      World Bank’s new chief asks staff to ‘double down’ on development

      Ajay Banga told employees his vision was ‘to create a world free from poverty on a livable planet’. World Bank’s new chief Ajay Banga has said annual investments of trillions of dollars are needed to arrest the forces of climate change and fragility [File: Eduardo Munoz] The World Bank’s new president Ajay Banga has asked the lender’s 16,000-person staff to “double down” on development and climate efforts as he seeks to accelerate the bank’s evolution to tackle the most pressing global problems. On his first day on the job Friday, the former Mastercard CEO told staff in a memo seen by Reuters that he would seek to recruit each of them to work towards his vision “to create a world…

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    • 3 June

      Canada wildfires spread to new areas, prompting more evacuations

      About 10,000 people have been ordered to leave a city in Quebec, amid hundreds of fires burning across the country. Firefighters with Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency work to put out fires in the Tantallon area of Nova Scotia [Nova Scotia Government] Approximately 10,000 people have been ordered to leave a coastal city in the Canadian province of Quebec, marking the latest evacuation amid weeks of wildfires across the country. The order on Friday for residents of Sept-Iles came after a nearby fire “advanced very quickly” overnight, according to the city’s mayor, Steeve Beaupre, who declared a local state of emergency. Bill Blair, the country’s minister of public safety, has said the ferocity of this year’s early wildfire season in Canada has…

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    • 3 June

      South America: A hard road to unity

      Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s push for more integration across the region will need to overcome major challenges. Unlike other parts of the world, Latin America is free of war. Yet it is a region plagued by inequality, crime, corruption, drug trafficking and social upheaval. Political stability and strong democratic institutions are more the exception than the rule. South America, in particular, never seems to stop moving from one extreme to the other, shifting from the political left to the right and back again, without addressing the social and economic demands responsible for moving the pendulum. Such instability has made it difficult for the continent to form an influential bloc, despite estimates that it collectively represents the fifth-largest global economy.…

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    • 3 June

      CIA chief made secret trip to China amid tensions: US official

      CIA Director William Burns emphasised the importance of keeping communication open between China and US. CIA Director William Burns visited intelligence counterparts in China last month, a US official says [File: Jonathan Ernst] In a bid to improve communication between Beijing and Washington, the director of the CIA, William Burns, visited China last month for talks with Chinese counterparts, a United States official said. Burns’s visit in May, which was first reported by The Financial Times, comes as Washington tries to cool tensions with Beijing and restore lines of communication amid fears that a miscommunication between the two global powers could accidentally spiral into conflict. News of the visit to China comes as US President Joe Biden’s administration has pressed to restore…

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    • 3 June

      US says talks with China key to prevent ‘crisis or conflict’

      US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tells security summit that ‘conflict is neither imminent nor inevitable’. China’s Defence Minister Li Shangfu attends the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2, 2023, where US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that communication with China was key to avoiding conflict or crises [Caroline Chia] United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he was deeply concerned by China’s unwillingness to engage in military crisis management, warning that talks are key to avoiding conflict. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, Asia’s top security summit, Austin said that open lines of communication between US and Chinese defence and military leaders were essential to avoid conflict and bolster stability in the…

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    • 3 June

      Wagner boss says Russian forces laid mines to harm his fighters

      Mercenary force boss Yevgeny Prigozhin says Russian defence officials planted explosives on route of Wagner fighters withdrawal from Bakhmut city. Founder of the Wagner mercenary force Yevgeny Prigozhin makes a statement at the start of the withdrawal of his forces from Bakhmut in this still image released on May 25, 2023 [File: Telegram channel of “Concord group” The boss of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has continued his months-long war of words with the leadership of the Russian armed forces by accusing pro-Moscow forces of planting explosives to harm his fighters as they retreated from Bakhmut. Prigozhin made his claims on Friday as Wagner mercenaries had largely pulled back from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut after months of bloody fighting and…

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    • 3 June

      Egypt, Qatar to launch relief initiative for Sudanese people

      The two leaders also stressed the importance of intensive work to contain the humanitarian situation in Sudan.  Flag of Egypt and Qatar Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Th ani have agreed to launch a joint initiative to support and provide relief to people in Sudan. During a phone conversation, both leaders stressed that the initiative aims to provide humanitarian and relief services to Sudanese people, especially refugees, the Egyptian presidency said on Friday in a statement. The two leaders also stressed the importance of intensive work to contain the humanitarian situation in Sudan, facilitating the flow of relief aid, and sparing civilians the repercussions of the fighting, according to the statement. Sudan…

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