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TODAY
‘Love Island USA’ star Hannah Smith on why her relationship with Kendall Washington 'died out'
Hannah Smith also opens up to TODAY.com about a “stigma” she faced in the villa and discusses the dramatic recoupling after her departure.
AFP
First radioactive rhino horns to curb poaching in S.Africa
South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.Border agents often have handheld radiation detectors which can detect contraband in addition to thousands of radiation detectors installed at ports and airports, the scientists said.
Politico
Trump’s endorsement is starting to show its limits
Trump-endorsed candidates lost Tuesday in Utah, South Carolina and Colorado.
AFP
India's Rahul Gandhi faces new test in revived fortunes
Once dismissed as an "empty suit", perennial Indian premier-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi emerged from his third consecutive election defeat with his reputation enhanced and his party back from the political wilderness.Leaked US embassy cables disparagingly referred to him as an "empty suit", and Modi dismissed him as a dynast more interested in luxury and self-indulgence than fighting to helm the world's biggest democracy.
AFP
Iran picks new president at turbulent time
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can challenge the dominance of conservatives in the Islamic republic.Neda said: "The hijab law will never be lifted since this is the Islamic republic.
NBC News
Growing wildfire in central Oregon chars 1,700 acres, prompts evacuations
A small wildfire in central Oregon quickly spread Tuesday, charring around 1,700 acres by nightfall and triggering evacuations while leaving thousands without power.
CNN
Julian Assange is flying back to Australia a free man. Here’s what we know about his US plea deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pled guilty to a single espionage charge in front on a US judge Wednesday and walked free after his 12-year battle against extradition to the United States ended in a plea deal.
CNN
Julian Assange ends stalemate with US, exchanging guilty plea for his freedom
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal on Wednesday morning.
Associated Press
Native American ceremony will celebrate birth of white buffalo calf in Yellowstone park
Ceremonies and celebrations are planned Wednesday near the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park to mark the recent birth of a white buffalo calf in the park, a spiritually significant event for many Native American tribes. A white buffalo calf with a dark nose and eyes was born on June 4 in the the park's Lamar Valley, according to witnesses, fulfilling a prophecy for the Lakota people that portends better times but also signals that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. Looking Horse has performed a naming ceremony for the calf and will announce its name during Wednesday's gathering in West Yellowstone at the headquarters of Buffalo Field Campaign, an organization that works to protect the park's wild bison herds.
Associated Press
Texas inmate facing execution for 2001 fatal shooting as his lawyers argue he's no longer a danger
A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer was set to be executed on Wednesday. The remains of Bridget Townsend weren't found until October 2002, two years after she vanished, when Ramiro Gonzales, having received two life sentences for kidnapping and raping another woman, led authorities to the spot in Southwest Texas where he left her body. Gonzales, 41, was condemned for fatally shooting Townsend after stealing drugs and money and kidnapping her in January 2001 from a home in Bandera County, located northwest of San Antonio.
NBC News
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a vocal Israel critic and 'squad' member, loses primary
NBC News projects George Latimer defeated Jamaal Bowman after a bitter and expensive Democratic primary in New York’s 16th District.
Reuters
Iran election hopefuls struggle to offer fix for economic woes
Candidates in Friday's Iranian presidential election have vowed to revive the flagging economy, but voters see little prospect of relief from a cost of living squeeze without an end to sanctions and an easing of Iran's international isolation. The daily struggle of ordinary Iranians to make ends meet is a persistent challenge for Iran's ruling clerics, who fear a revival of protests that have erupted periodically by lower and middle-income communities angry at enduring hardship. The reinstatement of U.S. sanctions in 2018 hit Iran's oil exports, slashing government revenues and forcing it to take unpopular steps such as increasing taxes and running big budget deficits, policies that have kept annual inflation close to 40%.
Associated Press
As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown
Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa Amini after she was detained for not wearing a scarf to the authorities' liking. A United Nations panel has found that the 22-year-old died as a result of “physical violence” wrought upon her by the state.
AFP
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks' controversial founder
Julian Assange, who walked free Wednesday following a plea deal with US authorities that ended a years-long legal saga, is for many a fearless campaigner for press freedom.Assange travelled to the Northern Mariana Islands, a US possession in the Pacific, where he pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defense information in exchange for his freedom, ending his years-long legal drama.
AFP
Costly odyssey for cancer care in war-torn Sudan
Doctors in eastern Sudan say Mohammed al-Juneid's wife, displaced and diagnosed with cancer, needs treatment elsewhere in the war-torn country.Among them is Juneid's wife, who used to undergo radiation therapy at Wad Madani hospital in central Sudan before "it closed because of the war", her husband said.
Associated Press
US journalist's closed trial for espionage set to begin in Russia, with a conviction all but certain
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, appeared in a court in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday for the opening hearing of his trial. Gershkovich was detained while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city in March 2023. The Russian authorities alleged he was “gathering secret information” on orders from the CIA about Uralvagonzavod, a facility that produces and repairs military equipment, but authorities have not publicly disclosed any evidence to back up the accusations.
Associated Press
A Palestinian was shot, beaten and tied to an Israeli army jeep. The army says he posed no threat
When Mujahid Abadi stepped outside to see if Israeli forces had entered his uncle's neighborhood, he was shot in the arm and the foot. Hours later, beaten and bloodied, he found himself strapped to the searing hood of an Israeli military jeep driving down a road. The army initially said Abadi was a suspected militant, but later acknowledged he had not posed a threat to Israeli forces and was caught in crossfire with militants.
Associated Press
Midwest flooding devastation comes into focus as flood warnings are extended in other areas
Kathy Roberts has almost nothing left. The South Dakota resident escaped flooding Sunday night with her cat and the clothes on her back, KTIV-TV reported. “I heard screaming outside and looked outside and I had neighbors that had water rushing into their place and water was slowly rising in my driveway,” Roberts said.
AFP
WikiLeaks founder Assange freed in US plea deal
Julian Assange was on his way home to Australia as a free man Wednesday after a plea deal ended years of legal drama for the WikiLeaks founder, who had long been wanted for revealing US state secrets."You will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man," the judge told Assange, adding she hoped the deal would restore some "peace" to him after his incarceration.
CNN
International Criminal Court issues war crimes arrest warrants for Russia’s Shoigu and Gerasimov
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov for alleged international crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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