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6/29/2024 5:40:58 PM
Mauritanians began voting Saturday to decide whether to re-elect President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as head of the desert country, an oasis of peace in Africa's volatile Sahel region.
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6/29/2024 3:21:43 PM
The sole reformist in Iran's presidential election, Masoud Pezeshkian, will face the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in a runoff, authorities said on Saturday, following a vote marred by historically low turnout.
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6/29/2024 12:57:37 PM
A divided France braced Saturday for high-stakes parliamentary elections that could see the anti-immigrant and eurosceptic party of Marine Le Pen sweep to power in a historic first.
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6/29/2024 10:30:58 AM
Seesawing results released early Saturday in Iran’s presidential election put the race between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili, with the lead trading between the two men while a runoff vote appeared likely.
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6/28/2024 1:55:00 PM
South Africa's weakened African National Congress (ANC) and its biggest coalition partner are squabbling over key jobs in the new cabinet, media reports say, nearly a month after elections.
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6/28/2024 1:25:14 PM
Joe Biden and Donald Trump traded fiery barbs Thursday as they bitterly attacked each other's records and conduct, in a debate with enormous stakes as each seeks to shift the razor-tight race for the White House.
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6/28/2024 1:03:59 PM
Polls in Iran opened on Friday for a presidential election following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month.
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6/27/2024 11:58:36 PM
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said the "resilient" military alliance can ride out any political changes in major powers ahead of crunch elections in the United States and France.
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6/27/2024 3:51:55 PM
Policy uncertainty linked to upcoming elections in France and the United States has increased the risk of market volatility and other economic fallout, the Bank of England warned Thursday.
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6/27/2024 2:51:42 PM
Veteran US diplomat John Kerry warned Thursday that the need to quickly and widely deploy climate technology to curb planet-heating emissions would be "hurt irreparably" by a Donald Trump presidency.
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6/27/2024 1:58:52 PM
Leaders converge on Brussels Thursday looking to seal the deal on the top jobs at the EU's helm, just days before a nail-biting French election with the potential to send shockwaves across the bloc.
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6/27/2024 1:46:08 PM
Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran's Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformist still in the race.
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6/27/2024 1:30:46 PM
From Gerald Ford's catastrophic Soviet gaffe to Ronald Reagan's witty remark about his age and Joe Biden asking Donald Trump to "shut up," US presidential debates have been funny, vicious and everything in between.
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6/27/2024 12:22:46 PM
France's political future was up in the air Thursday with the far-right surging in polls but other forces fighting to the end three days before a high-stakes parliamentary vote.
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6/27/2024 12:22:21 PM
There has been one figure of stability in the last 14 years of political turmoil in the UK -- Larry the Downing Street cat.
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6/27/2024 11:40:27 AM
Mongolians go to the polls Friday in parliamentary elections, with the ruling Mongolian People's Party widely expected to retain its majority despite public discontent over corruption.
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6/27/2024 11:31:18 AM
The United States eagerly anticipates the upcoming presidential debate between current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump amid a highly charged atmosphere of unprecedented political polarization.
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6/27/2024 11:30:44 AM
A candidate in Iran’s presidential election withdrew from the race late Wednesday, becoming the first to back out in order for hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the vote to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
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6/27/2024 10:43:28 AM
Britain goes to the polls next week in a general election that looks set to end 14 years of Conservative rule marked by economic turbulence, Brexit, political scandal and upheaval.
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6/27/2024 9:48:07 AM
Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for a historic US presidential debate Thursday, with the stage set for what could be an inflection point in the 2024 race as millions of voters tune in to the clash of rivals.
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