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REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Presidential election expected on June 3

The Republic of Korea's snap presidential election is widely expected to be held on June 3 after former president Yoon Suk-yeol's ouster from office last week, multiple media outlets, including Yonhap news agency, said on Monday. An unidentified government official was quoted as saying that the date of the election will be confirmed at the scheduled cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Yoon was removed from office by the Constitutional Court's unanimous ruling on Friday to uphold his impeachment motion by the National Assembly. By law, an acting president is required to designate the date of a presidential election in 10 days and hold the snap election in 60 days after a president's removal.

FRANCE

Relations with Algeria 'back to normal': FM

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday that ties with Algeria were back to normal after he held a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune following months of bickering that has hurt Paris' economic and security interests in its former colony. Barrot's visit to Algiers came after a call between French President Emmanuel Macron and Tebboune on March 31, during which the two agreed to a broad roadmap to calm tensions.

UNITED STATES

2nd child dies in Texas measles outbreak

A child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday, in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and spread across 22 states. The unvaccinated school-aged child died in the hospital last week from measles pulmonary failure, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. It is the second death of a child in Texas since the outbreak began in late January. US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as of Sunday, there were 642 confirmed cases of measles, of which 499 are in Texas.

Agencies - Xinhua