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Boris Johnson dodges question on meeting Donald Trump
Mr Farage said the pair had a "good meeting" and the president "really believes in Brexit". Mr Farage earlier accused Downing Street of trying to block him from meeting Mr Trump during the state visit, and said he would "wait and see if I get a call". [Full Article...]
Officials stunned as homelessness jumps 12% in Los Angeles County
The survey also found a 13% increase in women experiencing homelessness since 2018 in Los Angeles County. That number represents a roughly 50 percent increase since 2011 and totals a population equivalent to that of Arcadia, the Los Angeles Times reported . [Full Article...]
Larry the Downing Street cat photo-bombs Trump, May
During Trump's Tuesday visit to 10 Downing Street, which serves as both the office and residence of UK Prime Minister Theresa May , a cat chose to lie down underneath the president's limo, known as "The Beast". Yet Larry's influence looms large on social media, and he temporarily stole the spotlight from Trump's visit, which has included protests using the nappy-clad "baby Trump" inflatable bal... [Full Article...]
Alabama could require chemical castration for convicted child sex offenders
If a convict refuses to take the medication, they'll be considered in violation of parole and immediately taken back into custody, the bill states . A bill that will require the chemical castration of sex offenders in Alabama is in its final stages - it was delivered May 31 to the governor to be signed. [Full Article...]
Rajasthan's Churu records 50 degrees Celsius as heatwave grips India
Heatwave continued to sweep several parts of the country with Churu in Rajasthan remaining the hottest in the country at 50.3 degrees Celsius. The city, which has been witnessing temperatures above the 40-degree mark for the past few days, recorded a maximum of 40.2 degree Celsius on Monday. [Full Article...]
China's tryst with space; launches rocket from ship
The Long March 11 rocket blasted off from a launch pad aboard a commercial ship in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province, marking the 306th launch of a rocket in the Long March series, but the first one at sea. The most recent launch took place in May 2014, when Sea Launch, a multinational joint venture, sent a Zenit-3SL rocket from the company's mobile launch platform Odyssey in the... [Full Article...]
Veterans join world leaders to mark D-Day landings
On June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian soldiers arrived in waves on five beaches in Nazi-occupied France, spanning 80 kilometres of Normandy's coastline. "I think it's wonderful after all these years", Wilson said before the ceremony, proudly wearing the tartan-trimmed cap of his old unit, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. [Full Article...]
30 years to the Tiananmen Square protests China erased from memory
Hong Kong: A Tiananmen Square protest leader was barred from entering Hong Kong on Sunday after travelling to the city for a candlelight vigil marking the crackdown's 30th anniversary, organisers of the memorial said. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have deteriorated badly since December when police in Vancouver detained Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzho... [Full Article...]