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A gathering of several dozen people on election night swelled to more than 1,000 protesters by Thursday, Yonhap reported.Polling station staff were forced to remain inside until Friday morning, according to KBS.The boxes, containing about 2,000 ballots, were secured and transported to a counting centre after the riot police intervened on Friday morning, an official from the Korean National Police Agency told AFP.Livestream footage showed police physically removing demonstrators blocking entrances to the polling station, with some protesters shouting and resisting.Heated exchanges followed, with one man shouting, “Is this really a country governed by the rule of law?” as officers…

India has announced a series of measures aimed at attracting higher dollar inflows as the rupee remains under pressure from rising crude oil prices and significant outflows from domestic equity markets.The steps, unveiled by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), are designed to encourage foreign investment, support government borrowing programmes, and improve access to overseas capital.Government bonds are included under the fully accessible routeAmong the key measures, all new issuances of 15-year, 30-year, and 40-year government bonds will be included under the Fully Accessible Route.According to the RBI, bonds falling under this category are already part of three global bond…

To Ivanka Trump, Sazan was a ‘find’. Thousands of Albanians however fear that it could be their loss.In an interview with US podcaster David Senra this week, vanka – eldest daughter of US President Donald Trump – described the uninhabited island off Albania’s west coast almost as a patch of land that she and her husband Jared Kushner were the first to discover.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it,” she said, speaking of the island where a proposed luxury development plan linked…

The Food and Drug Administration has launched a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a senior FDA official confirmed to CBS News, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to restrict access to the medication. It will be a retrospective study of hundreds of thousands of cases, according to the official. The interim results of the study could be released in July, but the official noted the timing of the final results will depend on the design of a secondary analysis after the interim results come in. The Wall Street Journal was first to report…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida police are investigating after a woman’s body was found on a beach Wednesday evening.The Hollywood Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that a 30-year-old White female body was found washed up on the beach, with investigators seen combing the area for clues.”Based on the investigation, it appears the deceased was snorkeling/diving in the area of Dr. Von D Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park during the day of June 3rd. Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation investigators are working in partnership with Hollywood detectives on this case,” HPD said.GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL…

Canada’s newly-announced AI strategy includes plans for “large scale” AI data centres, a move that comes amid growing pushback from many communities across the country and in the U.S. concerned about the impacts these facilities could have. Data centres require large amounts of energy and resources to operate, on top of their initial construction impacts and knock-on effects to local communities, like potentially higher electricity rates.“Data centres require huge, huge amounts of energy, and Canada has both carbon-based energy and now more and more renewable energy. So we do seem like a natural home,” says computer science professor Arvind Gupta…

President Donald Trump’s legal team “flatly refuses” to hand over financial information to the BBC in his $14 billion defamation claim against the broadcaster.

JAKARTA: A highly active volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted several times on Friday (Jun 5), spewing towering ash columns into the sky and forcing a local airport to close, authorities said.Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island erupted at 11.15am, sending volcanic material 2.5km into the air, the national volcanology agency said in a statement.It came after several other eruptions earlier on Friday.Lewotobi Laki-Laki falls under Indonesia’s second-highest alert level for volcanic activity, with a 5km exclusion zone in force around its crater. The volcanology agency said residents near rivers should also remain on alert for hazardous floods of volcanic material,…

EXPLAINERIsrael strikes Lebanon despite ceasefire, while Hezbollah rejects deal as death toll tops 3,500.Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026Israel has continued to carry out deadly strikes across Lebanon despite the announcement of a new US-brokered ceasefire agreement reached by Lebanese and Israeli officials in Washington, DC.The violence has pushed the number of casualties higher, with Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health reporting that at least 3,526 people have been killed and 10,733 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2.Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has dismissed the ceasefire as a “farce”, warning that northern Israel will remain a target as long…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says she needs time to review new reporting surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner before giving her thoughts on new allegations of aggressive behavior.”This all kind of just came out. I’ve been doing legislative business on the floor, so I need to dig into everything further before commenting on it,” Ocasio-Cortez said.”I don’t want to speak before I’ve dug into a lot of, you know, to before I’ve dug into what’s out there. So, I just want to be respectful of that man,” she added.Ocasio-Cortez’s caution comes as…