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South Korea’s President-elect Lee Jae-myung departs for the National Assembly to attend his inauguration ceremony, in Incheon, South Korea, June 4, 2025. — Reuters pic

Lee Jae-myung takes power in South Korea after landslide snap election win

Members of a church gather for prayer beside a memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people, outside the Boulder County Courthouse, in Boulder, Colorado, June 2, 2025. — Reuters pic

Colorado Molotov attack suspect’s family detained by US immigration amid hate crime probe

Elon Musk’s loud opposition to a bill that US President Donald Trump has urged Republicans to pass presents a test of his political influence a week after leaving his formal role in the administration as a special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency came to an end. — AFP pic

‘Pork-filled disgrace’: Musk rips Trump’s spending bill as ‘a disgusting abomination’

A person sits at a desk inside of a mobile FEMA command centre in downtown Dawson Springs, Kentucky, the US on December 14, 2021 after tornadoes ripped through several states. — Reuters pic

FEMA 101: How America handles disasters, and why that’s now in question

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024. — AFP pic

‘You don’t have to climb Arafat’: Saudi tells pilgrims as Haj heat soars past 40°C

Palestinians transport people who were injured in Israeli strikes on displacement tents in Khan Yunis, to the Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic

Israeli forces open fire on Gaza crowd at aid site, killing at least 27 Palestinians

Dutch radical right party PVV leader Geert Wilders addresses the media as he arrives for the weekly coalition talks in the Lower House in The Hague, on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic

Dutch govt collapses as far-right leader Wilders pulls out over immigration row

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested on February 1 after being stopped at Bali’s international airport with 17 packages of cocaine that weighed nearly a kilogramme, according to public court records. They appeared in court alongside Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, who was allegedly due to receive the packages and arrested a few days later. 

Bali drug trial begins for three Brits facing possible death penalty

US investor Todd Boehly’s consortium agreed a deal to buy Chelsea from Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich for £4.25 billion on May 7, 2025 and the sale has now been officially rubber-stamped. — Reuters pic

UK warns Abramovich: £2.5b Chelsea sale funds must go to Ukraine, or face court

The Karachi jailbreak was one of the largest ever in Pakistan, according to local law minister Zia-ul-Hasan Lanjar. — Reuters pic

Post-quake, jail break: Pakistan recaptures 46 inmates, total escapees still unclear

The junta, which seized power in a 2021 coup sparking a many-sided civil war, said it would cease attacking its myriad armed opponents following a magnitude-7.7 quake on March 28, 2025 that killed more than 3,700 people. — AFP pic

Myanmar junta extends ceasefire to June after deadly March quake

The vehicle belonging to Mexican musical group Grupo Fugitivo is seen outside the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Forced Disappearances, after Mexican authorities confirmed that five members of the band were found dead, in Reynosa, Mexico May 29, 2025. — Reuters pic

Kidnapped, killed and dumped: Police nab three more suspects after Fugitivo band lured to death in Mexico

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Marmaris area in southwestern Turkiye on June 3, 2025. — Reuters pic

Teen dies, dozens injured as 5.8 quake rocks Turkiye’s tourist belt

The court previously heard the relationship between the accused and her estranged husband, Simon Patterson (pic), deteriorated shortly before the alleged murders due to a disagreement over child support. — AFP pic

‘I feel ashamed’: Australian mushroom murder accused breaks down in court over damning texts

A drone view shows volcanic steam rising from Mount Etna, as seen from Milo, Italy, June 2, 2025. — Reuters pic

Italy’s Mount Etna unleashes dramatic eruption with lava fountain and 6.5km ash plume

A farmer walks at a coca leaf plantation in Argelia, Cauca department, Colombia on May 5, 2025. — AFP pic

Will paying farmers to uproot coca help end Colombia’s cocaine crisis?