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Spanish hotel chain Meliá to shutter hotels in Cuba in latest blow to island’s tourism sector

HAVANA (AP) - Spanish hotel chain Meliá has joined a growing list of companies with a long-standing presence in Cuba that are withdrawing or limiting their operations on the island after the U.S. announced new sanctions while upholding an oil embargo. Meliá will cease operations ...
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Protesters clash with police in Chile’s capital over President Kast’s education cuts

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Thousands of students, teachers and social activists clashed with police in the Chilean capital Wednesday during a massive march against President José Antonio Kast's education cuts and austerity measures. Since taking office on March 11, ultraconservative Kast has pledged to cut ...
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Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

TORONTO (AP) - Canada's government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park in Ontario to aquariums in the United States and Spain - a plan that could save them from mass euthanasia if the deal ...
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Coast Guard dive team searches for Lynette Hooker in Bahamas

(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. Coast Guard dive team is in the Bahamas on Wednesday searching for Lynette Hooker, an American woman who went overboard and vanished nearly two months ago.The Coast Guard Investigative Service is leading the investigation and received permission from the ...
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Ukrainian drones hit St. Petersburg as key Putin economic forum opens

(LONDON) -- Ukrainian drones hit one of Russia's largest oil terminals in St. Petersburg overnight into Wednesday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, sending plumes of black smoke towering over the city as the landmark St. Petersburg International Economic Forum prepared to open.Zelenskyy said ...
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Romania says allies preparing to bolster air defences after Russian drone strike

By John Irish PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - Romania's foreign minister said on Wednesday several allies were preparing to reinforce air defence capabilities along NATO's eastern flank after a drone identified by Bucharest as Russian crashed into a residential building on its territory. Oana Toiu ...
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A Hong Kong artist tries to mark the Tiananmen crackdown. He was quickly stopped by police

HONG KONG (AP) - A performance artist on Wednesday sought to display a thin red thread in downtown Hong Kong to remember the victims of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, 37 years on from the event. But he was quickly stopped by police, in ...
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The Revolutionary War’s chief villain is being rehabilitated — just in time for America’s 250th

LONDON (AP) - "Mad" King George III - the villain of "Hamilton," "Schoolhouse Rock" and the Revolutionary War - has undergone a makeover in time for America's 250th birthday. He's been known in the United States for centuries as the English ruler who lost the ...
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As US midterms near, Talarico tries to fend off culture war attacks in Texas

By Helen Coster June 3 (Reuters) - Even before all the votes had been counted in last week's Republican Senate primary in Texas, party members began rolling out attacks on the Democratic candidate, James Talarico. Talarico "wants to trans your kids," Texas congressman Brandon Gill wrote ...
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UK interior minister condemns violent reaction to handcuffed student’s murder

By Sarah Young and Kate Holton LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister Shabana Mahmood on Wednesday condemned as "completely unacceptable" violent protests which broke out over the case of an 18-year-old who was handcuffed as he lay dying after his killer falsely alleged ...
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A ‘new Keiko’ tests old Fujimori name in Peru’s presidential runoff

By Marco Aquino and Lucinda Elliott LIMA, June 3 (Reuters) - Conservative Keiko Fujimori will seek Peru's presidency on Sunday in a runoff vote, hoping that her tough-on-crime stance at a time of rising insecurity will outweigh a polarizing family legacy with voters. Fujimori, 51, secured ...
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Australian judges weigh Indigenous activist’s bid to prosecute King Charles for genocide

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Three Australian appeals court judges reserved their decision Wednesday on whether an activist can prosecute Britain's King Charles III for alleged genocide of Australia's Indigenous people. Uncle Robbie Thorpe, 68, turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Victoria state after ...
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