内容摘要：Israeli military operations and evacuation orders “are stretching the health system beyond the breaking point,” he said.

Israeli military operations and evacuation orders “are stretching the health system beyond the breaking point,” he said.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Prime Ministerand opposition leader

are each claiming to be the underdog ahead ofAlbanese, who leads the center-left Labor Party, visited the eastern states of Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania on Friday. Dutton, who leads an alliance of conservatives parties called the Liberal-National Coalition, campaigned in the states of South Australia and Western Australia.Albanese noted an Australian prime minister had not led a party to consecutive election victories since John Howard, a conservative, in 2004. Howard’s 11-year reign ended in 2007, when he lost his own seat.

“There’s a lot of undecided voters. We have a mountain to climb. No one’s been re-elected since 2004,” Albanese told reporters on Friday.Dutton was confident undecided voters would back his coalition. In Australia, where voting is compulsory, many who don’t have strong preferences still turn out to vote to avoid a fine, often not picking a candidate until election day.

“We are the underdog and I think a lot of people will be expressing a real protest vote at this election as well because the prime minister believes he’s won this election,” Dutton said last week.

have focused on Australia’s changing demographics. The election is the first in Australia in which Baby Boomers, born between the end of World War II and 1964, are outnumbered by younger voters.Uruguay’s left-wing president, Yamandú Orsi, announced his death, which came four months after Mujica

for esophageal cancer and enter hospice care at his three-room ranch house on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital.“President, activist, guide and leader,” Orsi wrote of his longtime political mentor before heading to Mujica’s home to pay his respects. “Thank you for everything you gave us.”

Mujica had been under treatment for cancer of the esophagus. Radiation eliminated much of the tumor but soon Mujica’s autoimmune disease complicated his recovery.