World in brief: June 9, 2024
IRAN: Tehran’s Guardian Council today approved the country’s hard-line parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.
The council again barred former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running in the election.
EUROPEAN UNION: Tens of millions across the European Union went to the polls today for the final day of elections for the European Parliament.
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