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A liberal lawyer has ousted South Korea’s troubled ruling party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday, ending months of political instability that began with a botched declaration of martial law. A joint exit poll by three major broadcasters, KBS, MBC and SBS, showed that, with 51.7% of the vote, Lee Jae-myung was well ahead of his conservative rival, Kim Moon-soo, who garnered …

A tomato recall due to risk of salmonella contamination has been elevated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to its highest warning level. The FDA marked the tomato recall affecting three states as Class I, meaning there is a risk of “serious adverse health consequences or death,” on May 28. Williams Farms Repack LLC first announced it was recalling …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The cloud extended some 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 750 miles (1,200 …

Its publication also suggests that Western intelligence agencies are correct in their belief that Putin is not interested in compromise. The memorandum codifies what Putin has been saying all along — that the “root causes” of the war are NATO’s eastward expansion and fomenting Nazism in Ukraine. The memorandum is “aimed at getting rid of the root causes of this …

Public disagreements with some key U.S. trading partners threaten to undermine negotiations. South Koreans are set to elect a new president. And a family fights for change after a 22-year-old man’s death from an asthma attack, days after he was unable to afford an inhaler. Here’s what to know today. Where things stand as Trump’s ambitious push for trade deals …

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Over 200 inmates escaped from a prison in Pakistan on Monday after a series of earthquakes shook the southern port city of Karachi and set off panic, local authorities said. More than 600 inmates at Malir prison were being transferred to another section of the facility for their security after the quake when some attempted to flee, …

SYDNEY — An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms wept as she was questioned over expletive-laden messages about the victims on Tuesday, in a case that has captivated the country. Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with the July 2023 murders of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald …

At his restaurant in Beijing, Geng Xiaoyun used to offer a special dish of salt-baked chicken feet — or “phoenix talons” as they are called in China — imported from America. With prices climbing 30% from March due to tariffs, the owner of Kunyuan restaurant had to pull the Chinese delicacy from the menu. “American chicken feet are so beautiful,” …

Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator David Richardson was joking when he said at a meeting Monday that he was not aware of the upcoming hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Reuters reported that Richardson said at a briefing that he was not aware the United States has a hurricane season, confusing staffers. The report, …

Ashley Anderson was hiking in with her two kids and her dogs on Memorial Day when she heard yelling. “I look over and I didn’t even know what I was looking at at first,” she said. “It took me a second to register that it was a body.” A 64-year-old grandfather had fallen 20 feet down waterfall in Utah’s Adams …