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| Hello. Today we're covering the election of Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Will Grant explains what her victory means for the country. In Rome, Davide Ghiglione reports on the gay men subjected to conversion therapy. The practice is banned in several Western European countries, but not in Italy. And stay with us as we're commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day this week. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Sheinbaum’s historic landslide | | Claudia Sheinbaum will replace Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 1 October. Credit: Reuters | Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City whose Jewish maternal grandparents immigrated from Bulgaria, fleeing the Nazis, will be Mexico's first female president. She enjoyed a historic landslide win, receiving between 58% and 60% of the vote, according to preliminary results. Ms Sheinbaum’s success is no surprise, in light of her consistent double-digit lead in the polls. However, "given the country’s deeply ingrained patriarchy and entrenched machismo, [her victory] is no small feat", writes our Mexico correspondent Will Grant. Ms Sheinbaum will succeed her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after promising continuity on an agenda of universal pensions, student grants and family stipends, which have been hugely popular across Mexico. Second-placed Xóchitl Gálvez had accused the president-elect and her predecessor of being populists failing to tackle the violence that grips large parts of the country. Ms Sheinbaum's clear-cut victory shows a majority of the electorate still stands behind its government.
Dealing with neighbours: Claudia Sheinbaum, who worked in California as a researcher, will have to handle a sensitive relationship with the United States. Here's what's at stake.
Landmark moment: It was a victory for all women, Ms Sheinbaum told supporters on Sunday. "I won't fail you."
If you missed it: Read Will Grant's piece on the two women who battled to break Mexico's ultimate glass ceiling. | |
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| Gay men subjected to conversion therapy | Young gay men across Italy have been sharing their experiences of being put through pseudoscientific group meetings or individual sessions to turn them into heterosexuals. Rosario Lonegro, who entered a Catholic seminary in Sicily as an aspiring priest, is one of them. |
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| | Davide Ghiglione, BBC News |
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| | Haunted by guilt and fears of committing a sin in the eyes of the Catholic Church, Rosario said he "felt trapped with no choice but to suppress my true self”. “I could not change no matter how hard I tried,” he said. For more than a year, during spiritual gatherings outside the seminary, he was subjected to a series of distressing activities intended to strip him of his sexual proclivities. These included being locked in a dark closet, being coerced to strip naked in front of fellow participants, and even being required to enact his own funeral. |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | India's election reaches its climax |
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| | | Almost 970 million people were eligible to vote in India. Credit: Reuters | After six weeks of gruelling campaigning - and quite often, of queuing in blistering heat - India will count its votes on Tuesday. It has been the biggest election in history, marked by divisive language, arrests and AI deepfakes. Christian Parkinson takes you behind the poll's big talking points. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Arty serenity | Craft hobbies can make us more at peace. | |
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And finally... | This week is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which saw tens of thousands of soldiers landing of the shores of Normandy to liberate France and northwest Europe from Nazi Germany. Ahead of the operation many US personnel were deployed to Northern Ireland. And the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment left its mark on its Killymoon Castle base. The building's basement walls still sport writing and drawings from the time, including an unflattering portrait of Adolf Hitler. Take a look. | |
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