Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first female president.
Claudia Sheinbaum is expected to win the poll by a wide margin. She is a former climate scientist and Mayor of Mexico City. She is likely to succeed her political mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. Supporters of the president-elect gathered in large numbers in the capital to celebrate Sheinbaum's overwhelming victory. Claudia Sheinbaum is estimated to win Sunday's presidential election with 58.3 to 60.7 percent of the vote, according to the INE's official rapid count. It put her nearest challenger, Xochitl Galvez, who leads a coalition of primarily conservative parties, at 26.6-28.8 percent. The official result will be announced on June 8. Speaking to supporters, Sheinbaum said her competitors, Galvez and Maynez, had called her and acknowledged her victory.
Egypt: Al-Ahram film studio in Giza is on fire; no casualties have been recorded.
Early on Sunday morning, a large fire broke out at a film studio in Giza. One of Egypt's first cinematography studios is the AL Aram Film Studio. In addition to evacuating inhabitants from surrounding regions, the Giza authorities sent out a team of firefighters to stop the fire from spreading. Watch to find out more!
China's Embassy is criticized by Taiwan, which declares itself to be a free nation.
Following the interview with Taiwan's Foreign Minister, the Chinese embassy declared that the interview was "firmly opposed" and "strongly deplored". Our diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal has received a copy of the response in the form of a release, which has been posted on the Chinese embassy's website, and requests that he consider it "seriously."
Pro-Palestinian protests flare up in many regions of the world.
Student protests demanding that universities cut relations with Israel over the Gaza conflict have spread around Europe, sparking confrontations and arrests as new rallies erupted in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria. Watch to find out more.
War on Gaza: Israel attacks a relief truck in Deir el-Balah, killing at least nine people.
Witnesses reported by the Wafa news agency said that an Israeli airstrike on an aid truck in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, resulted in at least nine fatalities and numerous injuries. According to Al Jazeera sources, the Israeli bombing struck a Kuwaiti association's truck on al-Rashid Street in the Brook neighborhood. In the previous 24 hours, the Israeli army also bombed homes throughout southern Gaza, killing at least 90 people.
Amazon shares are sold by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and a billionaire, sold about 12 million shares of the cloud services and online retail company for about $2 billion. According to a company filing on Friday, the sale occurred on Wednesday and Thursday.
Zelenskyy: Glide bombs are Russia's primary instrument of warfare against Ukraine.
Ukraine claims Russian soldiers used so-called 'glide bombs' in an attack on a busy hardware shop in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing 15 people and injuring more than 40. Russian glide bombs, modified with wings and satellite navigation equipment, may reach targets tens of kilometers inside Ukraine while allowing the launching aircraft, such as SU-34s, to remain within Russian airspace. Despite pledges of F-16s from European partners, Ukraine does not have adequate air defense against these strikes. Ground-launched glide bombs delivered to Ukraine are blocked by Russian electronic jamming, allowing Russian glide bombs to retain aerial supremacy while destroying ground targets.
Houthis claim that Israel's Gaza operation will be mirrored by Red Sea strikes.
Shortly after the leader of the group announced that the group was stepping up attacks on ships in the Red Sea and other waters, using new "submarine weapons" among other things, to mimic Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip, a Houthi official posted a statement on the social media platform X.
UK local elections: Prime Minister Sunak's party suffers major losses.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party has suffered a significant defeat in municipal elections. The polls come just months before a parliamentary election. While the main opposition Labour Party increased its vote share, smaller parties and independents also performed well.
Rats on board: After rodents were discovered on board, a Sri Lanka Airlines plane was grounded for three days.
There was a three-day grounding of a national airline aircraft in Sri Lanka. The airline set the disastrous delays and subsequent grounding on Tuesday, blaming it on a rodent.
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