Serbia’s Vucic says he will resign within weeks and call early elections, bowing to 18 months of student-led protests over the Novi Sad station disaster.
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Bolivia’s Paz invokes state of emergency as road blockades cut La Paz off from oxygen
President Rodrigo Paz declared a 90-day state of emergency on June 20, deploying the military to remove roadblocks that had killed at least 17 people and left La Paz hospitals without oxygen.
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Venezuela’s twin earthquakes kill 235 and leave tens of thousands missing
Back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck near Caracas on 24 June, killing at least 235 people in Venezuela’s worst seismic disaster since 1900.
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Keir Starmer resigns as UK Prime Minister after Reform’s local election surge
Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister on June 22, less than two years in office, after Labour shed 1,496 council seats to a Reform UK surge in May elections.
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Far-right lawyer De la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff
Abelardo de la Espriella won Colombia’s June 22 presidential runoff with 49.7% against leftist Ivan Cepeda’s 48.7%, ending four years of leftist governance in the closest election in the country’s modern history.
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Cambodia’s scam-compound crackdown frees 200,000 workers but leaves thousands stranded
Cambodia’s scam crackdown freed over 200,000 trafficked workers but left thousands stranded in Phnom Penh with no shelter and no legal path home.
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De la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff in narrowest race on record
Abelardo de la Espriella’s narrow runoff win on June 21 ends four years of Gustavo Petro’s leftist government and reshapes US-Colombia ties.
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Cabinet ministers push Starmer to name his departure date
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told Keir Starmer to set a departure timetable, as two cabinet resignations and Andy Burnham’s Makerfield landslide push the Labour leadership crisis to a new threshold.
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Gatchalian elected Philippines Senate president in record fifth leadership change
Sherwin Gatchalian secured 13 votes on June 17 to become the Philippines’ new Senate president, ending a 15-day leadership dispute that produced the chamber’s fifth change of president in a single Congress.
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Burnham wins purpose-built Makerfield seat to challenge Starmer
Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election on June 18 with 54.81%, entering Parliament to launch a Labour leadership challenge against Keir Starmer.