Peru’s right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori built what may be an unassailable lead on Tuesday as vote counting for the runoff election entered its final stages, official figures showed. With 99.86 percent of ballots tallied, Fujimori held 50.12 percent of vote, a margin of just over 43,000 over her leftist rival Roberto Sanchez, according to…
South Korea took a soldier from the North into custody after the individual crossed the heavily fortified border this week in what is believed to be a defection, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday. “The military secured one North Korean soldier in the central front Tuesday night and relevant authorities are currently investigating the…
U.S. and Iran offer conflicting accounts of nuclear talks; primary races in New York, Maryland, Utah and South Carolina. Source link
6/23: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Five active wildfires rage in Utah; record heat grips Europe. Source link
In Europe, record-setting heat caused dozens of deaths, many of them drowning, as several European countries battled the triple-digit temperatures. France saw its highest single temperature since records began. Leigh Kiniry reports. Source link
After another day of boasts and denials and conflicting claims from the White House and Iran, Weijia Jiang reports on what we know. Source link
Indian authorities are hoping to launch an operation to recover the frozen body of a climber who died on Mount Everest nearly 30 years ago in one of the deadliest disasters ever seen on the world’s highest peak. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is soliciting bids from high altitude recovery agencies for a mission to retrieve…
Two people are dead, including a police officer, after a suspect opened fire at police in Montreal. The suspect is also dead. Shanelle Kaul reports on the investigation. Warning, some of the video is graphic. Source link
London — A decade after the public referendum vote that led to the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” from the European Union, a majority of Britons now say leaving the bloc was a mistake, according to a recent survey by the independent YouGov polling organization. “Brexit has been an absolute disaster for the country,” one pro-EU campaigner told…
London — Labour Party lawmaker Andy Burnham, who looks increasingly likely to be Britain’s next prime minister, has previously criticized President Trump, accusing the American leader of bringing “instability” to the world. Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he would resign in the wake of disastrous local elections in May, and 20 resignations from…
