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President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign by presenting himself as the same political insurgent who shook up the Washington establishment four years ago and who is now a victim of an attempted ouster by Democrats. At a packed rally at an arena in Orlando, Florida, Trump made clear he would run for re-election as an outsider, just as he did in 2016. He revisited campaign themes from four years ago, decrying illegal immigration, the news media and his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump said his Democratic challengers would radically change the United States and seek to…

International investigators are set to launch criminal proceedings against suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine nearly five years ago. MH17 was shot out of the sky on July 17, 2014 over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as it was flying from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed. Most victims were Dutch. A joint investigation team formed in 2014 by Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine found that the plane was shot down by a Russian missile. The governments of the Netherlands…

British prime ministerial hopefuls Michael Gove and Rory Stewart appeared confident ahead of Tuesday’s (June 18) second round in the Conservative Party leadership contest. Gove leaving his house on the morning six contenders are whittled down by the party’s lawmakers, told reporters he is looking forward to ”making the case for a positive Conservative vision.” On Monday Gove said if he became prime minister he would try to win changes to a Brexit deal by opening talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. Stewart, leaving 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, said he still has a…

Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what. With former London mayor and foreign minister Johnson keeping a low profile, the other candidates have targeted the air waves to present their cases to lead the governing Conservative Party.  His absence was marked by an empty lectern. That left the five other candidates to argue over which man was best placed to deliver Brexit in testy exchanges International Development Minister Rory Stewart described as a competition…

Troubled construction and services firm Kier has said it will cut 1,200 jobs as it seeks to make cost savings of £55m a year by 2021. The cuts came as the firm’s boss announced a plan to simplify Kier’s business and reduce its debt. The company will sell its homebuilding business, Kier Living, and will shut or sell other interests, including its recycling and rubbish processing units. Kier will now focus on activities such as construction and road maintenance. Shares in the company have fallen by more than 85% in the past year, and they fell a further 9% in…

Members of Mexico’s National Guard began patrolling an area along the country’s southern border, as Mexico stepped up efforts to reduce a surge of migrants toward the U.S. under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to hit Mexican goods with tariffs if Mexico does not do more to stem illegal immigration. As part of those efforts, Mexico has pledged to deploy 6,000 National Guard members along its border with Guatemala. Mexico made a deal on June 7 with the United States to avert the tariffs, setting the clock ticking on a 45-day period for the Mexican government…

Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down. His release comes as a political crisis in the Chinese-ruled city enters its second week, amid growing uncertainty over the fate of current Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and a controversial extradition bill she postponed at the weekend. Protest organizers said almost 2 million people turned out on Sunday (June 16) to demand that Lam resign, in what is becoming the…

The president of Uruguay’s government-owned utility UTE said that the massive power failure that began in Argentina and left tens of millions in South America without power would be an opportunity to improve the country’s power systems. Argentina’s grid “collapsed” around 7 a.m. local time (1100 GMT), leaving the entire country without power and cutting electricity to much of neighboring Uruguay and swaths of Paraguay, as well. Energy distributors in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, whose populations total nearly 55 million, said power was being quickly restored to major cities and heavily populated coastal regions, including Montevideo and Buenos Aires. UTE…

Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what. With former London mayor and foreign minister Johnson keeping a low profile, the other candidates have targeted the air waves to present their cases to lead the governing Conservative Party.  His absence was marked by an empty lectern. That left the five other candidates to argue over which man was best placed to deliver Brexit in testy exchanges International Development Minister Rory Stewart described as a competition…

Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month. A second rocket launched on Thursday evening hit a house in Sderot but caused no casualties, police said. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian factions. The latest hostilities followed Israel’s closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on Wednesday (June 12) in what it said was a response to incendiary balloons launched across the frontier that caused fires in fields in southern Israel this week. In a…