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  1. The former central banker successfully convinced voters that he was the right candidate to confront President Trump’s trade war and threats to annex the country.
  2. Electricity was back in most of the two countries after a blackout that shut down much of daily life. The cause of the outage remained unclear.
  3. President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has become an interlocutor in peace talks, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.
  4. The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself, which ended 50 years ago this month.
  5. Russian forces launched 100 attack drones across Ukraine overnight, hours after President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a unilateral three-day cease-fire starting on May 8.
  6. The sectarian-tinged violence was directed at a suburb of the Syrian capital with a large population from the Druse minority. Local Druse leaders said they held the government responsible.
  7. Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is known as the “Asian Francis.” But he has been criticized for not being vocal enough about his country’s brutal drug war and clerical sex abuse.
  8. The pope’s funeral was on Saturday. Now the process of selecting the church’s future leader will begin.
  9. The administration had said that no senior U.S. envoys could attend the events marking 50 years after the war’s end. On Tuesday, the U.S. consul general was seen at a reception for the anniversary.
  10. “It feels like I lost my whole extended family,” one survivor said.
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