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WORLD NEWS Saturday 25 June 2022
U.K. Conservatives lose 2 elections in blow to Boris Johnson

By JILL LAWLESS staples at a time of soaring
Associated Press consumer demand while
LONDON (AP) — British the coronavirus pandemic
Prime Minister Boris Johnson recedes. “I’m not going to
suffered a double blow as pretend these are brilliant
voters rejected his Conser- results,” Johnson said at a
vative Party in two special news conference in Kigali.
parliamentary elections “We’ve got to listen, we’ve
dominated by questions got to learn. … When peo-
about his leadership and ple are finding it tough,
ethics. they send messages to
He was further wounded politicians, and politicians
when the party’s chair- have got to respond.”
man quit after the results Johnson won a big ma-
came out early Friday, say- jority in a 2019 general
ing Conservatives “cannot election by keeping the
carry on with business as Conservatives’ traditional
usual,” and a former party voters affluent, older and
leader said the country concentrated in southern
needed “new leadership.” England and winning new
The centrist Liberal Demo- ones in poorer, post-indus-
crats overturned a big trial northern towns where
Conservative majority to many residents felt over-
win the rural southwest Eng- Newly-elected Liberal Democrat lawmaker for Tiverton and Honiton Richard Foord celebrates in looked by governments
land seat of Tiverton and Crediton, England, Friday June 24, 2022. Associated Press for decades. Thursday’s
Honiton, while the main elections brought defeat
opposition Labour Party re- eral Democrat lawmaker, Dowden resigned, saying like Johnson was a strong on both fronts. Rural Tiver-
claimed Wakefield in north- Richard Foord. “They sent “our supporters are dis- backer of Britain’s exit from ton and Honiton has voted
ern England from Johnson’s a loud and clear message: tressed and disappointed the European Union, urged Conservative for genera-
Tories. The contests, trig- It’s time for Boris Johnson to by recent events, and I the party to remove him as tions, while Wakefield is a
gered by the resignations go, and go now.” share their feelings.” leader. northern district that the
of Conservative lawmakers Defeat in either district “We cannot carry on with The prime minister was Tories won in 2019 from La-
hit by sex scandals, offered would have been a set- business as usual,” said 4,000 miles (6,400 kilome- bour.
voters the chance to give back for the prime min- Dowden, previously a ters) away at a Common- Labour’s widely expected
their verdict on the prime ister’s party. Losing both staunch Johnson loyalist. wealth summit in Rwanda victory in Wakefield —
minister just weeks after increases jitters among “I will, as always, remain as the drama unfolded. whose previous Conserva-
41% of his own MPs voted restive Conservatives who loyal to the Conservative The electoral tests came tive legislator resigned after
to oust him. already worry the ebul- Party,” he said, without of- as Britain faces the worst being convicted of sexual
“The people of Tiverton lient but erratic and divisive fering an endorsement of cost-of-living crisis in a gen- assault — is a boost to a
and Honiton have spo- Johnson is no longer an Johnson. eration, with Russia’s war party that has been out
ken for Britain,” said the electoral asset. Former Conservative lead- in Ukraine squeezing sup- of office nationally since
area’s newly elected Lib- Party chairman Oliver er Michael Howard, who plies of energy and food 2010.q

Auschwitz Museum says it’s a target of Russian propaganda

By VANESSA GERA murder of Jews and others at the places depicted in were manipulated and the gross propaganda.”
Associated Press at the camp, which oper- the images, and that secu- stickers added digitally. When Russia invaded
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — ated during 1940-1945. rity cameras did not cap- “Everything indicates that Ukraine on Feb. 24, Presi-
The Auschwitz-Birkenau mu- The images were tweeted ture anyone affixing any- the photographs are simply dent Vladimir Putin said
seum alleged Friday that by official Russian sites, in- thing to the locations on or a manipulation,” the mu- the goal was to “denazify”
it was the target of “primi- cluding the Russian Arms before June 22. It said an seum said, describing the the neighboring coun-
tive” propaganda spread Control Delegation in Vien- analysis showed the photos images as “primitive and try, whose democratically
by Russian state agencies na and retweeted by the elected president is Jewish
on social media. Russian Ministry of Foreign and lost family members in
The museum said that social Affairs. They appeared the Holocaust.
media posts falsely claim to intended to portray Rus- “The use of the Auschwitz-
show anti-Russian stickers sians as targets of vicious Birkenau Memorial for
placed around the memo- Russophobia. Some posts propaganda that lends
rial at the former site of the claimed the stickers were credence to alleged Rus-
Auschwitz death camp site the work of Ukrainians. sophobia and strengthens
in southern Poland, an area Several online posts theories about the need for
under German occupation claimed the stickers went denazification of Ukraine
during World War II. up on June 22, which is the should be opposed by
“Russia and Russians,” the anniversary of Nazi Germa- all thinking people world-
stickers appearing in fake ny’s invasion of the Soviet wide,” it added.
images say, “the only gas Union in 1941. The Soviet More than 1.1 million peo-
you and your country de- Union’s army liberated Aus- ple, most of them Jews,
serve is Zykon B.” That is a chwitz in 1945. A view of the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in were murdered by the Na-
reference to the gas the The Auschwitz Museum said Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. zis and their collaborators
Germans used in the mass no such stickers were found Associated Press at Auschwitz.q