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Sudan’s military calls for election after violent crackdown on protesters

SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP President Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth II arrive at a banquet at Buckingham Palace on June 3, during his first state visit to the U.K. The trip, scheduled to coincide with the 75th anniversary of D-Day, brought the President to London at an awkward time, as Theresa May prepares to stand down as Prime Minister. That didn’t stop the pageantry—or Trump from wading into local politics. He endorsed Boris Johnson to replace May and called London Mayor Sadiq Khan a “stone cold loser.”

AT LEAST 60 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND hundreds wounded in Khartoum on June 3 when the Sudanese military raided a peaceful sit-in calling for democratic reform. Troops shot into the crowd with live ammunition, set tents

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