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By Jack Queen and Tom Hals

(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will decide whether to testify on Monday when his criminal trial resumes on charges he hid his drug use from the government in 2018 to illegally buy a gun.

Prosecutors in the first criminal trial of a U.S. president’s child rested their case on Friday after a week of testimony that offered an intimate view of the younger Biden’s years of struggle with... (continue reading...)

By Padraic Halpin

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris could be tempted to call an early national election after rival Sinn Fein flopped at local council polls, upending expectations that the pro-Irish unity party was set to govern Ireland for the first time.

Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army, saw a commanding three-year opinion poll lead melt away in the run up to Friday's council... (continue reading...)

By Sruthi Shankar

(Reuters) - European stocks dropped on Monday after French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election following a heavy loss in the European Union vote to the far-right, rattling investors already worried about the interest rate outlook.

France's blue-chip CAC 40 index dropped 1.8% to touch a more than three-month low, with lenders, including BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole, falling in the range... (continue reading...)

PARIS (Reuters) -Political upheaval in France won't affect preparations for the Olympic Summer Games, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Monday after President Emmanuel Macron shocked France with his call for new parliamentary elections.

Macron called the snap election after the far-right National trounced his own party in Sunday's European Parliament vote. Two voting rounds will be held on June 30th and July 7th, the latter coming less than three weeks... (continue reading...)

By Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped on Friday, a senior U.S. border official told Reuters, saying it signaled a restrictive new Biden administration policy was deterring some illegal immigration.

U.S. Border Patrol arrested around 3,100 people crossing illegally, down roughly 20% from the days before, the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss... (continue reading...)