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Monday, May 23, 2022

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🇦🇺 Australia elected a new government. Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat after his right-leaning Liberal party was defeated by the left-leaning Labor party in Saturday’s parliamentary election, though there are millions of votes still left to count.

🇭🇹 Haiti is dealing with a gang violence epidemic. Nearly 200 people have been killed in the country between April 24 and May 16, with another 174 people injured, missing or kidnapped for ransom, per new figures from the UN human rights office. Roughly 1,700 schools have been shuttered amid the spike in violence, leaving over half-a-million children without access to an education.

🇺🇦 Ukraine won’t agree to concessions or an immediate ceasefire with Russia. In an interview with Reuters yesterday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak ruled out any territorial concessions to Moscow and said his country's military wouldn’t agree to a pause in the fighting; the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol surrendered last week, which means Russia has full control of a land bridge connecting its mainland with the Crimean Peninsula.

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