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04-06-2024 BEIJING: China has accused the UK’s intelligence agency of recruiting a couple as spies, the latest in a string of tit-for-tat allegations between Beijing and the West in recent months. According to China’s Ministry of State Security, the two state department employees were successfully recruited after MI6 operatives exploited …

04-06-2024 MEXICO CITY: Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election. That gives her a lead of …

03-06-2024 SINGAPORE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused China of helping Russia in “actively blocking” countries from participating in this month’s peace conference in Switzerland, to which Ukraine says 106 countries have so far confirmed their attendance. “Russia is using Chinese influence on their region, using Chinese diplomats, to do …

03-06-2024 MEXICO CITY: Mexicans are going to the polls in an election which is almost certain to see the country’s first female president elected. Both the front runner, Claudia Sheinbaum, and her main rival, Xochitl Galvez, are far ahead in the polls of the only male candidate, Jorge Alvarez Maynez. …

03-06-2024 REYKJAVIK: Halla Tomasdottir, a businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election, topping a crowded field of candidates in which the top three finishers were women, the country’s national broadcast service reports. Tomasdottir, 55, was elected to the largely ceremonial post with 34.3 percent of the vote, defeating former …

03-06-2024 CHICAGO: Dozens of students protesting Israel’s ongoing military strikes in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment. The disruption to the rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony was brief, with shouts, boos and …

03-06-2024 BEIJING: Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun says his military is ready to “forcefully” stop Taiwan’s independence but called for greater exchanges with the United States over the issue. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue conference in Singapore on Sunday, Dong said Taiwan was the “core of core issues” for China …

03-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has won the regional vote in Arunachal Pradesh, a state bordering China, while a local party swept to power in Sikkim, a Himalayan state, officials and politicians said on Sunday. Provincial elections in Arunachal …

03-06-2024 JERUSALEM: An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by US President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work. In an interview with …

03-06-2024 CANBERRA/ BEIJING/ SINGAPORE: Australia has asked for military talks with China and is comfortable growing closer to the Philippines, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit. China and the Philippines are locked in confrontation in the disputed South China Sea and their …