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Tullamore (Ireland) (AFP) – Many young doctors in Ireland are leaving the country in search of better lifestyles. Skewed work-life balance, housing and cost of living crises are some of the issues young doctors face in Ireland. “A 40-hour week compared to an 80-hour week is hugely significant for having a life outside work,” said Niamh Humphries, a lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland who researches doctor emigration trends and motivations.

College Park (United States) (AFP) – Seated side by side behind an antiquated viewer, two sisters run and rerun the 35 mm black-and-white film reel, whispering to each other about the images captured by their father, the only cameraman on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Jennifer Taylor-Rossel, 66, and Patricia Spae, 65, have come to a darkened room at a National Archives facility outside Washington for the first time to look at the film, at the invitation of French documentarian Dominique Forget. Filled with emotion, Taylor-Rossel says she hadn’t realized “how much he was part of D-Day” adding, “I’m kind of reaching back into history and touching that.”

New Delhi (AFP) – People in New Delhi react as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a third term, despite his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failing to secure an outright majority for the first time since sweeping to power a decade ago. ++COMPLETES WITH VIDEO 34V97PH++ ++COMPLETES VIDI34V97PH_EN ++

New Delhi (AFP) – People in New Delhi react as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a third term, despite his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failing to secure an outright majority for the first time since sweeping to power a decade ago. ++COMPLETES WITH VIDEO 34V97PH++ ++COMPLETES VIDI34V97PH_EN ++

Florence (Italy) (AFP) – Amanda Knox arrives back in court in Italy for a slander case related to her infamous jailing and later acquittal for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. The American was only 20 when she and her Italian then-boyfriend were arrested for the brutal killing of the 21-year-old student at the girls’ shared home in Perugia. The murder began a long legal saga where Knox was found guilty, acquitted, found guilty again and finally cleared of all charges in 2015. But she still had a related conviction for slander for blaming the murder on a local bar owner, Patrick Lumumba, during initial questioning by police.

Beijing (AFP) – China warns the US against stoking “ideological confrontation”, after Washington’s top diplomat Antony Blinken vowed to never stop promoting human rights in China 35 years after the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

Hong Kong (AFP) – Hong Kong was once the sole place on Chinese soil where public commemorations of Beijing’s 1989 bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square were allowed. The annual candlelight vigil was a symbol of the city’s unique freedoms, but commemorations have been banned since 2020, the year that Beijing imposed a national security law to quell dissent.

Muzaffarabad (Pakistan) (AFP) – For India’s 200-million-plus Muslim minority, an expected third term for the Hindu-nationalist ruling party brings renewed fears for their future in the constitutionally secular country. Meanwhile in neighbouring Pakistan, scores of people staged a small protest against the result, accusing Modi of being a “threat to peace.”

Washington (AFP) – The United States will temporarily close its Mexico border to asylum seekers from June 5, as President Joe Biden tries to neutralize his political weakness on migration ahead of November’s election battle with Donald Trump.

Ljubljana (AFP) – Slovenia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a decree recognising a Palestinian state, following last week’s recognition by three other European states.

Portsmouth (AFP) – World War II veterans gather in southern England ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings into northern France at the site where Allied commanders set the stage for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. The landings on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, were one of the main military operations that led to the end of World War II.

Chan Yunis (AFP) – Shouting and screaming with glee and frustration, Gazan boys kick footballs around with their bare feet. Gaza has been ravaged by eight months of war triggered by the unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel by Palestinian militants from Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 36,550 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.