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Monday, Jun 26, 2023

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🐋 The revolution is here: orca attacks on boats seem to be spreading across the North Atlantic Ocean near Europe. An orca repeatedly rammed into a yacht in the North Sea near Scotland last week, representing the first known incident in that particular body of water. The attack occurred 2,000 miles away from a series of similar orca attacks reported off the coasts of Portugal and Spain for the past three years. According to experts, the behavior was likely first inspired by a female named Gladis who had a traumatic run-in with a boat – and now it’s spreading to distant whale populations, too.

🇸🇱🇬🇷🇬🇹 A trio of countries held nationwide elections to determine a leader this weekend. 1) Sierra Leone: Residents voted in presidential, parliamentary, and local elections on Saturday, with President Julius Maada Bio seeking a second term amidst high inflation and unemployment. 2) Greece: PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a second four-year term on Sunday after his center-right New Democracy party earned a landslide victory in the country's second national election in five weeks. 3) Guatemala: Polling stations closed last night in the country’s tight presidential race, which features a total of 25 candidates; the race is widely expected to result in an August runoff election featuring the top two vote-getters.

🚢 At least 237 migrants were rescued after four boats sank off the coast of Spain’s Canary Islands. Officials fear more than 30 migrants had drowned on the Western Africa-Atlantic migration route, which is considered the second-deadliest in the world behind the Mediterranean Sea crossing. The incident occurred just over a week after a ship carrying an estimated 400 to 750 migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece, with all but 104 passengers still missing and presumed dead.

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