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Rodrigo Duterte won the
presidential election in the
Philippines in a landslide
victory over Mar Roxas, a
former member ofthe cabinet
ofthe outgoing president,
Benigno Aquino. Mr Duterte
had been the mayor ofDavao,
a city in the southern island of
Mindanao, where he waged a
controversial anti-corruption
campaign. He once asserted
that suspected criminals
should be killed ifneed be.

Bangladesh executed Motiur
Rahman Nizami, who headed
the country’s largest Islamist
party. He was convicted for
war crimes committed during
the independence war against
Pakistan in 1971, but critics
claim his trial was not fair.

A four-star general in North
Korea who was thought to
have been executed earlier this
year has apparently resurfaced.
In February South Korea
reported that General Ri Yonggil
had been executed in a
purge by the regime, but pictures
from the North’s state
media this weekshowed him
in uniform with three stars,
suggesting the lucky general
had instead been demoted.

The White House announced
that BarackObama will visit
Hiroshima, the first American
president to do so. He is going
to the Japanese city to promote
his goal ofreducing stockpiles
ofnuclear weapons.

On the refugee front line
Werner Faymann stepped
down as the chancellor of
Austria. He had been in power
since 2008, but faced criticism
from within his party, the
Social Democrats, for the
country’s increasingly hard
line on refugees. The far-right
Freedom Party is ahead in the
polls in the run-offfor the
federal presidency, a mostly
ceremonial role.

Ahead ofnew elections in
Spain on June 26th, Podemos,
a far-left movement, announced
that it would form a
parliamentary pact with United
Left, the former communist
party. “We want to agree
on a government for progressive
change,” said Pablo Iglesias,
the leader ofPodemos.

After weeks ofprotests against
France’s controversial new
labour laws, François Hollande,
the president, forced
through the reforms without a
parliamentary vote.

The Italian parliament voted in
favour ofcivil unions for gay
couples. Italy was the last big
Western democracy not to
have any legal recognition of
same-sex partnerships.

Sadiq Khan, a British-born
Muslim ofPakistani descent,
won London’s mayoral election
with over 50% ofthe vote.
The battle between the Labour
man and his Conservative
rival was marred by a pernicious
attempt to linkMr Khan
to Islamic extremism. Donald
Trump, the presumptive Republican
presidential candidate,
said he would make an
“exception” for the mayor to
his proposed ban on Muslims
entering America. Mr Khan
dismissed the offer.

In other elections in Britain,
the Conservatives surged to
replace Labour as the second
party in Scotland behind the
nationalist SNP, which lost its
majority rule. In Wales the
right-wing anti-Europe UK
Independence Party claimed
seven seats, their first ever in
the Welsh Assembly. In England
Labour avoided the drubbing
that was expected in
council elections. It still lost
seats, though not as many as
the ruling Tories.

After making a gaffe by naming
two fantastically corrupt”
countries before an open
microphone (and the queen),
David Cameron, Britain’s
prime minister, used the ensuing
publicity to promote an
anti-corruption summit
being held in London. One of
his proposals is a crackdown
on foreign ownership ofBritish
property held by shell
companies using illegally
acquired money.

Back with a vengeance
At least 90 people were killed
in three separate car-bomb
attacks in Baghdad. The worst
hit a crowded market-place in
Sadr City, a strongly Shia area
ofthe Iraqi capital.

In a possible sign of reconciliation,
the warring sides in
Yemen agreed to a prisoner
swap, to take place in the next
three weeks.

The World Health Organisation
said that an outbreak of
yellow fever has killed 277
people in Angola since December.
An article in the Journal of
the American Medical Association
warned that the mosquitoborne
disease could spread to
other continents.

Crunch time
Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach
the country’s president,
Dilma Rousseff, on charges
that she manipulated fiscal
accounts. While the impeachment
trial is being conducted
the vice-president, Michel
Temer, will take over as president.
Ifthe Senate votes to
convict Ms Rousseffby a twothirds
majority, Mr Temer will
serve out her term.

Panama said that it will temporarily
close its border with
Colombia to bar Cuban migrants
from crossing over.
Some 3,500 Cubans attempting
to migrate to the United
States are stuck in Panama
after Costa Rica blocked them
from proceeding further.

A forest fire forced 90,000
people to flee their homes in
Fort McMurray, which serves
as the base for oil firms that
work the tar sands in the western
Canadian province of
Alberta. The fire covered more
than 220,000 hectares and
forced some firms to suspend
production, prompting economists
to lower their projections
of Canada’s GDP growth for
the second quarter of2016.

She’s got it, but…
Hillary Clinton lost another
primary to Bernie Sanders in
the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination. Her
defeat in West Virginia is the
latest in a state where black
and Hispanic voters, the mainstays
ofher support, form only
a small part ofthe electorate,
raising questions about Mrs
Clinton’s wider appeal.

In Minneapolis ten potential
jurors in the trial ofthree
Somali-Americans accused of
conspiring to join Islamic State
and commit murder were
allowed to step down after
telling the judge they could not
be impartial in the case. One of
the jurors said she felt “uncomfortable”
being in the same
room as the accused, who
were arrested by the FBI.

A survey of American military
personnel found that Donald
Trump was the preferred
presidential candidate among
people on active duty. Support
for him was twice that for the
Democratic front-runner,
Hillary Clinton. On a negative
note for both, over a fifth said
they would rather not vote in
November ifthe choice was
between the two.

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