JUNE 24 (GMT) – JUNE 25 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 3 NORTH AMERICA UK AUSTRALIA Students out to support Trump ‘Real risk’ of second virus wave Aussies urge shift from China It wasn’t quite one of his signature big- Health leaders are calling for an urgent The fragile relationship with China has stadium rallies. But President Donald review to ensure Britain is properly left its mark on Australians, with many Trump drew something closer to the jam- prepared for the “real risk” of a second believing there is a need to reduce the packed audience of political supporters wave of coronavirus. Ministers have been nation’s economic dependence on the he’s been craving as hundreds of warned that urgent action is needed to Asian powerhouse. A new survey has young conservatives filled a Phoenix prevent further loss of life and to protect found as many as nine in 10 people megachurch to hear his call for them to the economy amid growing fears of a (94 per cent) believe the Australian get behind his reelection effort. renewed outbreak over the winter. government should look for other markets to steer the country away from its reliance on its number one trading partner, China. NORTH AMERICA UK NEW ZEALAND Voting smooth in primaries Study delves into 2019 election Quarantine regime under fire Voters have endured 90-minute waits in Low-income voters helped deliver Jacinda Ardern’s government has been Kentucky’s second-largest city, but the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s election accused of risking the health of New biggest hurdle facing election officials landslide, with Labour trailing the Tories Zealanders after revelations most people seemed to be what wasn’t happening: among poorer Britons for the first allowed to leave COVID-19 quarantine in quick counting of mail-in ballots for high- time, an analysis has shown. A major June did so without tests. Of the 55 Kiwis profile congressional primaries in that report into voting behaviour at the 2019 granted compassionate exemptions to state and New York. Final results seemed election found the Tories established a leave isolation between June 9 and 16, unlikely for days. 15-point lead over Labour among people all but four did so without a coronavirus on low incomes. The study found that the test. Tories were more popular with people struggling to make ends meet than they were among wealthier voters. 1 JUNE 24 (GMT) – JUNE 25 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 6 ASIA UK AUSTRALIA China, India agree to disengage Economy faces long recovery Defence force to aid virus fight Chinese and Indian military commanders Scotland’s economy may not return to its The defence force and other states have have agreed to disengage their forces pre-coronavirus level until summer 2024 been called in to help Victoria’s efforts in a disputed area of the Himalayas if there is a second wave of the disease, to contain coronavirus cases. The state following a clash that left at least 20 economists have warned. A new report has seen a spike in COVID-19 infections soldiers dead, both countries have from experts at the Fraser of Allander in the past week, with 20 more cases said. The commanders reached the Institute think tank said the “Scottish and a death recorded on Wednesday. agreement in their first meeting since the economy is now in its deepest recession The Australian Defence Force, NSW, SA, June 15 confrontation, the countries said. in living memory”. It added recovery could Tasmania and Queensland have been The confrontation in the Galwan Valley, take four years in the worst-case scenario called in to help. part of the disputed Ladakh region along if there was another spike of cases and the Himalayan frontier, was the deadliest stringent lockdown measures had to be between the two countries in 45 years. reimposed. ASIA UK NEW ZEALAND N Korea eases military threat Virus hits medical research Last passenger train leaves town North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Research into some of the UK’s deadliest A locomotive and carriages used on has suspended his military’s plans diseases is being “devastated” by the Dunedin’s Taieri Gorge Railway left the to take unspecified retaliatory action Covid-19 pandemic, leading charities southern city this morning for the North against South Korea, state media have warned. The Association of Medical Island. The engine and rolling stock has said, possibly slowing a pressure Research Charities (AMRC) warned that had been leased by the city council- campaign against its rival amid stalled medical research is being hampered owned Dunedin Railways, but they’re no nuclear negotiations with the Trump by the economic challenges posed longer being used as the line has been administration. Declaring relations as fully by coronavirus. Many charities have mothballed with the loss of 50 jobs. ruptured, the North last week blew up an described huge losses in income as they Some of those workers joined a group inter-Korean liaison office in its territory warned that research efforts could be of two dozen supporters to see the and threatened unspecified military impacted for years to come. locomotive off. action against the South. 2 JUNE 24 (GMT) – JUNE 25 (AEST), 2020 Supporters of President Donald Trump cheer as he arrives to a group of young A voter fills out her ballot during the Kentucky Primary at the Kentucky Exposition Center Republicans at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona. - AP in Louisville, Kentucky. - AP NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA Students turn out Voting largely smooth to support Trump in election primaries It wasn’t quite one of his signature big-stadium rallies. Voters have endured 90-minute waits in Kentucky’s second-largest city, but the biggest hurdle facing election But President Donald Trump drew something closer to officials seemed to be what wasn’t happening: quick the jam-packed audience of political supporters he’s been counting of mail-in ballots for high-profile congressional craving as hundreds of young conservatives filled a Phoenix primaries in that state and New York. Final results megachurch to hear his call for them to get behind his seemed unlikely for days. reelection effort. The crowded pews at the Dream City Church for the In the day’s foremost contests, two young African American gathering of Students for Trump offered a starkly different feel candidates with campaigns energized by nationwide compared to Trump’s weekend rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his protests for racial justice were challenging white Democratic first of the coronavirus era, which drew sparser attendance. establishment favorites for the party’s nominations. Trump hailed the “patriotic young Americans who stand up First-term state legislator Charles Booker was hoping a late tall for America and refuse to kneel to the radical left.” surge would carry him past former Marine fighter pilot Amy “You are the courageous warriors standing in the way of McGrath for the Democratic Senate nomination from Kentucky. what they want to do and their goals,” he told the boisterous And in New York, political newcomer Jamaal Bowman was crowd. “They hate our history. They hate our values, and they seeking to derail House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman hate everything we prize as Americans.” Eliot Engel’s bid for a 17th term in Congress. His address was chock-full of typical Trump lines – boasts Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky easily won the Republican about television ratings, ridicule of his likely Democratic nomination for a seventh Senate term and will be favored in presidential opponent Joe Biden and sharply worded November against McGrath or Booker. resentments over China’s handling of the virus. He also offered A deluge of mail-in ballots prompted by the coronavirus his supporters a dark warning. pandemic and slow-moving vote-counting procedures meant “This will be in my opinion the most corrupt election in the final results in those and other races would probably take days history of our country,” said Trump, who has in recent days or more. That torturous wait seemed a preview of November, stepped up claims that expanded mail-in voting will lead to when numerous states will turn to mail-in voting like never voting fraud. “And we can not let this happen.” before. Officials are already warning that uncertainty over who But throughout his daylong trip to Arizona, which included the next president will linger for days. a visit to the US-Mexico border, the COVID-19 pandemic By late afternoon, there were scattered reports of long lines shadowed Trump. and absentee ballots that voters never received. Yet voting Since late May, Arizona has emerged as one of the nation’s generally appeared smoother than in elections held in recent most active hot spots for the spread of COVID-19. weeks in Georgia and Nevada, where some people stood in Photos of restaurants and bars crowded with unmasked line for hours. patrons ignited controversy. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey Waits lasting 90 minutes were reported at the lone voting reversed himself last week and allowed cities and counties site in Lexington, Kentucky – Kroger Field, the University of to require people to wear masks in public places. Most Kentucky’s football stadium. ■ have, including Phoenix and Yuma and the counties that surround them. ■ 3 JUNE 24 (GMT) – JUNE 25 (AEST), 2020 A member of the cleaning team disinfects the inside of a train carriage at Waverley Station, - PA Edinburgh, Scotland. - PA UK UK ‘Real risk’ of second Research delves into wave of coronavirus 2019 election result Health leaders are calling for an urgent review to ensure Low-income voters helped deliver Prime Minister Boris Britain is properly prepared for the “real risk” of a second Johnson’s election landslide, with Labour trailing the wave of coronavirus.