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South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is projected to be the new president following a snap election on June 2

South Korea’s opposition leader Lee wins election as voters punish conservatives after martial law chaos

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, Mike Valerio and Lauren Kent, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law and plunged the nation into chaos. Official results

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A satellite image shows damage to aircraft at an airfield following the Ukrainian drone attack in Stepnoy

New footage reveals the impact of Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases

CNN, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, UKRAINIAN MFA, UKRAINIAN MOD, OBTAINED BY CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Vasco Cotovio, Frankie Vetch, Eve Brennan, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mitchell McCluskey, Helen Regan, Tim Lister, Henry Zeris, Lou Robinson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious

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Palestinians mourn their loved ones in Khan Younis on June 3.

Dozens of Palestinians killed near Gaza aid distribution point, health officials say, in third day of shooting

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Lucas Lilieholm, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Palestinians on their way to receive aid from a distribution site in southern Gaza have come under fire for a third consecutive day, with nearly 30 people killed and dozens wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Nasser hospital. The ministry

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A satellite image shows damage to aircraft at an airfield following the Ukrainian drone attack in Stepnoy

New footage reveals the impact of Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Vasco Cotovio, Frankie Vetch, Eve Brennan, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mitchell McCluskey, Helen Regan, Tim Lister, Henry Zeris, Lou Robinson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious and daring. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. New

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Starmer Defence Secretary John Healey unveiled a military overhaul in Scotland on June 2.

UK to build new attack submarines and ramp up ‘war-fighting readiness’ with an eye on Russia, Starmer says

By Rob Picheta and Joseph Ataman, CNN London (CNN) — Britain will build new attack submarines, invest billions on nuclear warheads and move toward “war-fighting readiness,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, shortly before the publication of a landmark review of the future of the country’s military. Starmer’s government said it would build “up to”

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This photo taken on May 20

How protests over designer handbags threw Mongolia into political crisis and sparked a prime minister’s resignation

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Mongolia has been thrown into fresh political crisis with the country’s prime minister announcing his resignation following weeks of protests sparked by his family’s lavish displays of wealth. Young Mongolians had taken to the streets of the capital putting pressure on Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, who lost a vote

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Karol Nawrocki and Rafal Trzaskowski contested a head-to-head run-off election on May 31.

Populist Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election, setting stage for more clashes with PM Tusk

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist government’s efforts to unspool the legacy of authoritarianism in the country. Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law

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Smoke rises in Irkutsk region

Ukraine hits air bases thousands of miles inside Russia in audacious military operation

By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Tim Lister, Mitchell McCluskey and Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces have destroyed dozens of Russian warplanes parked at air bases thousands of miles from the front lines, according to a source in the country’s security services, in one of Kyiv’s most audacious and sophisticated counter assaults since the

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