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Warsaw, June 2 (UNI) Karol Nawrocki, the candidate from the opposition Law and Justice party, is winning the Polish presidential runoff with 51% of the votes, Polish Television reports citing data from the state election commission after processing 99.55% of the ballots. Ruling Civic Coalition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski received 49% of the votes. On Sunday…

Washington, June 2 (UNI) UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds will ask the US for a quick steel deal next week, the Financial Times reported. On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he was raising tariffs on US steel imports to 50% in order to strengthen domestic steel industry. Reynolds will…

Beirut, June 2 (UNI) A Hezbollah member was killed Sunday evening in an Israeli strike targeting a vehicle in southern Lebanon, according to a statement from the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health. Security sources told Xinhua that the slain Hezbollah member was Mohammad Ali Srour, from the village of…

Warsaw, June 2 (UNI) Rafal Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw, was leading by a narrow margin in Poland’s presidential runoff on Sunday, according to exit polls. According to the exit poll by Ipsos, Trzaskowski, candidate of the ruling Civic Coalition (KO), received 50.3 percent of the vote, while his rival Karol Nawrocki, an independent candidate backed…

Moscow, June 2 (UNI) Ukraine on Sunday carried out drone attacks targeting airfields in multiple Russian regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said. According to the ministry, the attacks were repelled in the regions of Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur. In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, drones launched from areas near the airfields caused several aircraft to…

Gaza/Jerusalem, June 2 (UNI) Hamas said on Sunday that it affirms its readiness to begin indirect negotiations over the Gaza ceasefire immediately. In a press statement, Hamas expressed its appreciation for the continued efforts by Qatar and Egypt to broker a ceasefire agreement. The movement said that it is ready to “immediately begin a round…

Tokyo, June 2 (UNI) A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan’s Hokkaido early Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The earthquake occurred at 3:52 a.m. local time (1852 GMT Sunday) at a shallow depth, measuring 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in areas such as Taiki and Urahoro…

Mexico City June 2 (UNI) At least 12 people died and three were injured after a fire broke out at a rehabilitation center in San Jose Iturbide, a city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the state Attorney General’s Office said Sunday. The office “immediately” launched an investigation to determine the cause of the…

Berlin, June 1 (UNI) A fire broke out overnight at a hospital in the Hohenfelde district of the northern German city of Hamburg, killing three patients and injuring more than 50 others, local authorities confirmed on Sunday. According to the Hamburg fire department, two of the injured are in life-threatening condition, while 16 others sustained…

Moscow, June 1 (UNI) A bridge explosion in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast on Saturday night caused a passenger train carrying 388 people to derail, resulting in the deaths of seven people, Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz said. Speaking on news channel Rossiya 24 on Sunday, Bogomaz confirmed that the bridge was “blown up while a train was…