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Economy
6/1/2023 10:12:36 AM
Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans against fierce conservative blowback and progressive dissent.
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International
5/31/2023 10:48:37 PM
US politicians raced to secure backing for a cross-party deal to raise the national debt limit and avert a first-ever default as they faced a growing backlash from conservatives ahead of a crucial Wednesday evening vote.
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International
5/22/2023 10:40:40 AM
A crushing victory in Greece's Sunday elections by the conservative New Democracy party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will nevertheless lead to a new ballot in a month, as the winner fell short of a majority.
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International
5/21/2023 10:05:38 PM
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative party is on course to win Sunday's election, exit polls show, but could be forced to call a new ballot in a month's time as it fell short of an outright majority to rule alone.
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5/19/2023 1:56:43 PM
Greece's outgoing conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and leftist challenger Alexis Tsipras will make a final push for votes at closing rallies on Friday ahead of the most uncertain general election in a decade.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/9/2023 7:45:01 PM
The UK Labour Party performed well in last week’s local elections, but the severe defeat suffered by the ruling Conservatives also benefited other smaller parties, writes Ahmed Mustafa
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Region
5/5/2023 12:06:17 PM
Britain's ruling Conservatives suffered high-profile losses as results poured in Friday from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's first major electoral test since he took office last year.
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War in Ukraine
4/27/2023 2:51:15 PM
Finland's conservative leader Petteri Orpo, who won the country's April general election, on Thursday said he plans to form a coalition government that includes the far-right runner-up Finns Party.
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International
3/26/2023 8:28:22 PM
A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most people, even in conservative Tennessee, reject extremes on the issue.
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International
3/22/2023 3:31:43 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from some fellow Conservatives, including his two immediate predecessors, when lawmakers vote Wednesday on his deal with the European Union to revise the rules governing Northern Ireland trade.
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International
2/12/2023 10:23:24 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats suffered a heavy setback in a regional poll in Berlin on Sunday, falling behind the opposition conservatives in the capital for the first time in over two decades.
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International
2/5/2023 7:38:23 PM
Iraqi activists protested Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that sparked outrage in the conservative country.
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International
2/3/2023 8:03:13 PM
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove "blasphemous content" from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country.
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International
1/29/2023 8:45:06 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the chairman of the governing Conservative Party on Sunday for a "serious breach'' of ethics rules in failing to come clean about a tax dispute.
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Business
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Economy
1/27/2023 2:14:05 PM
Britain's Treasury chief said Friday that taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some in the governing Conservative Party for immediate tax breaks for businesses and voters.
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World
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Region
1/24/2023 4:44:57 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise trip to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with King Abdullah II, his first visit since taking power at the helm of Israel's most right-wing and religiously conservative government in history.
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Region
1/12/2023 4:05:08 PM
Former Israeli top legal officials spoke out Thursday against sweeping reforms to the country's justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending their voices to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul.
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World
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Region
1/11/2023 8:15:54 PM
Two Palestinians were killed Wednesday in separate Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank, the latest deadly confrontation after the most right-wing and religiously conservative government upends Israeli politics.
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World
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International
1/5/2023 3:52:25 PM
Britain's opposition Labour party vowed Thursday to overhaul the country after 13 troubled years of Conservative rule -- but insisted it would not spend its way out of trouble.
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Business
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Economy
12/14/2022 10:33:49 PM
The UK’s Conservative Party has appointed billionaire Mohamed Mansour, former transport minister under Egypt’s late longtime President Hosni Mubarak, as senior treasurer to the party, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
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