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7/9/2024 10:21:14 PM
Britain's new lawmakers excitedly squeezed into parliament Tuesday with Labour sitting on the government's side of the chamber for the first time in 14 years following last week's landslide election win.
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7/9/2024 9:55:01 PM
Labour’s landslide victory has given the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer a broad but potentially questionable mandate for change, reports Ahmed Mustafa
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7/5/2024 12:47:07 PM
Keir Starmer on Friday will become Britain's new prime minister, as his centre-left opposition Labour party swept to a landslide general election victory, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.
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7/4/2024 8:57:56 PM
The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old. President Ronald Reagan answered it with a pledge to resign if he became impaired, and later with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.
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6/22/2024 4:02:27 PM
A family of six was found dead by rescuers in Fujian province, state media reported Saturday, adding to the extreme weather deaths after downpours caused landslides in the area, even as authorities extended a warning of more severe weather ahead.
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6/8/2024 9:50:18 PM
A landslide election win will embolden Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, to defend her country's interests in sometimes-tense relations with the United States dominated by trade, migration and drugs, experts say.
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6/4/2024 5:56:58 PM
India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed election victory for his party and its allies on Tuesday, but the opposition said they had "punished" the ruling party to confound predictions and reduce their parliamentary majority.
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6/2/2024 12:58:02 PM
A top opponent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would return to jail Sunday as his bail conditions demand after elections that were widely expected to result in another landslide victory for the Hindu-nationalist leader.
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5/27/2024 10:04:21 AM
More than 2,000 people have been buried in a Papua New Guinea landslide that destroyed a remote highland village, the government warned Monday as it called for international help in the rescue effort.
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5/26/2024 12:11:27 PM
More than 670 people are believed to have died after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on Sunday as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their desperate search for survivors.
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4/25/2024 4:50:27 PM
At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday.
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3/10/2024 11:08:21 PM
Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 19 people and leaving seven others missing, officials said Sunday.
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1/24/2024 3:57:51 PM
More than 70 people have been killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, local sources told AFP Wednesday, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents.
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12/31/2023 8:53:00 PM
DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results announced Sunday, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a "sham".
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12/4/2023 9:12:49 PM
The death toll from landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rainfall in northern Tanzania climbed to 68 on Monday, a regional official said, as rescue workers searched for trapped survivors.
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12/3/2023 10:43:15 PM
At least 47 people were killed and 85 others injured in landslides caused by flooding in northern Tanzania, a local official announced Sunday, with warnings the toll would rise.
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9/3/2023 7:26:02 PM
Much of southern Taiwan came to a standstill Sunday as Typhoon Haikui churned over towns and farmland. Residents were urged to stay home and flights, rail transport, ferry services, classes and outdoor events were suspended, but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage.
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8/23/2023 1:51:16 PM
Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.
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8/13/2023 11:01:41 AM
The death toll from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in northern China has risen to at least four, state media said on Sunday.
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8/11/2023 4:52:29 PM
Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said Friday.
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