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7/7/2024 9:15:05 AM
French voters face a decisive choice Sunday in the runoff of snap parliamentary elections that could produce the country’s first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation — or no majority emerging at all.
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7/6/2024 8:23:24 PM
New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the centre-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.’s relations with the rest of the world.
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7/6/2024 12:06:40 PM
Joe Biden fended off questions about his mental fitness and electability on Friday in a TV interview meant to draw a line under a disastrous debate performance that triggered calls for him to quit his re-election bid.
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7/6/2024 11:59:37 AM
Iran's reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the interior ministry said.
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7/5/2024 6:27:36 PM
Candidates in France's pivotal and polarizing legislative elections were making their last pushes on Friday for the second and decisive round of voting after a three-week campaign marked by hate speech, verbal abuse and physical attacks.
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7/5/2024 4:45:52 PM
Keir Starmer on Friday swept into Downing Street for the first time as UK prime minister, promising urgent action to restore the country's fortunes.
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7/5/2024 2:43:15 PM
Labour leader Keir Starmer has officially become prime minister of the United Kingdom, following the resignation of former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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7/5/2024 1:48:00 PM
Rishi Sunak on Friday apologised to the public after his Conservatives were trounced by Labour in the UK general election, and said he would step down as party leader.
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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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Region
7/5/2024 12:21:06 PM
Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East.
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7/4/2024 6:16:43 PM
French far-right three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday said her National Rally (RN) party was still capable of winning an absolute majority in the second round of legislative elections this weekend.
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Omni sports
7/4/2024 10:16:54 AM
Andy Murray launches his Wimbledon farewell alongside his brother Jamie on Thursday as the British take centre stage on election day in the UK.
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7/4/2024 9:39:45 AM
Britons headed to the polls Thursday in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule.
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7/3/2024 4:56:52 PM
France's prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was the only faction capable of winning an absolute majority.
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Africa
7/3/2024 4:56:19 PM
South Africa's new unity government under President Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in on Wednesday, the first of its kind in the country after 30 years of rule by the ANC.
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International
7/3/2024 10:48:26 AM
President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance has reverberated across the Democratic Party, forcing lawmakers to grapple with a crisis that could upend the presidential election and change the course of American history.
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Region
7/3/2024 10:47:33 AM
Tunisia will hold a presidential election on October 6, the office of President Kais Saied announced Tuesday, though he has not indicated if he will seek a new five-year term after his 2019 election.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/2/2024 9:57:31 PM
Last week’s lowest-ever turnout in presidential elections in Iran was not only a blow to the country’s supreme leader but also to its reform movement, writes Manal Lotfy
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/2/2024 9:56:14 PM
Iranians will go to the polls again tomorrow to choose between a reformist cardiac surgeon and a conservative political scientist as their next president
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International
7/2/2024 9:54:23 PM
Democrats shocked by Joe Biden's dismal debate performance urged the US president Tuesday to be transparent about his mental fitness as he faced the first call from his own side to drop out of the election.
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