Ceasefire Proposals and Political Turmoil: A World in Crisis

The world is grappling with political and social upheaval as Hungary's Orban proposes a ceasefire to Ukraine, France faces polarized run-off elections, and Canadian courts grant an injunction against pro-Palestinian protesters. Meanwhile, turmoil continues in Gaza, Kenya, India, the UK, Moldova, and Jamaica with various crises unfolding.

Following is a summary of current world news briefs.

Hungary's Orban, in Kyiv, proposes ceasefire to speed up peace talks

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday to consider a ceasefire to accelerate an end to the war with Russia, but Kyiv said it saw its own approach as the path to peace. Orban, who is an outspoken critic of Western military aid to Ukraine and has the warmest relations of any EU leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin, held talks with Zelenskiy during his first trip to Kyiv in more than a decade.

France's moderate voters face extreme choices in run-off vote

Denise Rollet says she faces no good options in France's run-off legislative vote in the coming days. The 80-year-old former teacher from Crepy-en-Valois, a small, middle-class town northeast of Paris, must now pick a candidate from two parties she would never vote for: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), or a Socialist standing as part of a hastily assembled leftist alliance.

Canadian court allows police to clear pro-Palestinian campus encampment

An Ontario judge ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment at Canada's largest university by Wednesday evening, granting the University of Toronto's injunction request in a ruling on Tuesday. Police were authorized to arrest and remove anyone contravening the order but protesters said the order would not stop them from campaigning for their demands.

Thousands flee their homes as Israeli forces bomb southern Gaza

Israeli forces bombarded several areas of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday and thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in what could be part of a final push of Israel's intensive military operations in nine months of war. Eight Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, health officials said. Israel's military said that two soldiers had been killed in battle a day earlier.

Tear gas, stones and flames as Kenya protesters say 'Ruto must go!'

Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in the most widespread unrest since at least two dozen protesters died in clashes a week ago. The nationwide demonstrations signalled that President William Ruto had failed to appease a spontaneous youth protest movement, despite having abandoned plans for tax rises that triggered the unrest last week.

Israel's next headache: who will run post-war Gaza?

The plan for post-war Gaza that Israel pitched to U.S. allies is to run the strip in cooperation with powerful local families. But there's a problem: in a place where Hamas still wields ruthless influence, none want to be seen talking to the enemy. Israel is under pressure from Washington to end the loss of human life and wind down its military offensive after nearly nine months, but does not want Hamas in charge after the war.

At least 116 people killed in stampede at Hindu religious event in India

At least 116 people, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, authorities said, in one of the country's worst such tragedies in years. The stampede happened in a village in Hathras district in Utter Pradesh, about 200 km (125 miles) southeast of the national capital New Delhi, where authorities said thousands had gathered in sweltering late afternoon temperatures.

Poll predicts record win for Labour Party at UK election

Britain's Labour Party is set to sweep to power with a record number of seats at Thursday's national election, a forecast by polling company Survation showed on Tuesday. Survation's central scenario showed Keir Starmer's Labour winning 484 of the 650 seats in parliament, far more than the 418 won by the party's former leader Tony Blair in his famous 1997 landslide win and the most in its history.

Moldovan separatists complain to EU about central government

A week after the European Union launched membership talks with Moldova, the country's separatist region complained on Tuesday that central authorities had ignored its proposals to settle their long-running dispute and imposed a "banking blockade". The leader of the pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria region, Igor Krasnoselsky, told the EU ambassador in a rare meeting that Moldova's government had ignored its proposed declaration calling for a peaceful settlement.

Deadly Hurricane Beryl churns toward Jamaica, causes 'immense destruction'

Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday after battering smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, and scientists cited human-caused climate change as the likely culprit for the storm's rapid strengthening. The unusually early hurricane felled power lines and unleashed flash floods. It has so far claimed at least three lives.

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