World
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International
5/15/2023 10:47:01 AM
Ballots tallied Monday showed voters in Thailand wanted change after nine years under a former general who took power in a coup, with the main opposition parties easily besting other contenders in the general election.
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World
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International
5/14/2023 10:06:16 PM
Few tipped him seriously as a likely prime minister, but Thai opposition leader Pita Limjaroenrat looks set to play a major role after voters rejected almost a decade of army-backed rule.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/14/2023 8:51:39 PM
Egypt's opposition parties opted for implementing the proportional list system in the 2025 parliamentary elections, arguing that the current closed list system is unfair and bars most opposition parties from joining the parliament.
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 6:47:14 PM
Thailand's two main opposition parties took a strong lead in the popular vote as early election results trickled in Sunday, with the army-backed party of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha trailing in third.
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 5:34:44 PM
Election polls closed Sunday in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's leadership of the NATO member country grappling with economic turmoil and the erosion of democratic checks-and-balances hung in the balance after a strong challenge from an opposition candidate.
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 2:08:16 PM
Iran has summoned Iraq's ambassador to protest over the presence of Iranian opposition groups at an official ceremony in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, media reported Sunday.
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World
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International
5/14/2023 10:06:55 AM
Voters in Thailand were heading to the polls on Sunday in an election touted as a pivotal chance for change, eight years after incumbent Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first came to power in a 2014 coup. He is now running against the daughter of the politician who is the military's top nemesis.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/11/2023 8:01:50 PM
The United Nations' top rights body narrowly decided Thursday to beef up monitoring of abuses amid Sudan's spiralling conflict, despite vehement opposition from Khartoum.
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World
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Region
5/11/2023 3:44:12 PM
Third-party candidate Muharrem Ince on Thursday withdrew from Turkey's tight presidential election in a shock move that increased the chances of an opposition first-round victory.
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World
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Region
5/10/2023 11:36:49 AM
In the year in which the Turkish republic marks its centenary, the country is being closely watched to see if a united opposition can succeed in unseating an increasingly authoritarian leader in the NATO-member country.
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World
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Region
5/8/2023 3:54:25 PM
More than a dozen people have been detained over violence against an opposition election rally in Turkey’s eastern city of Erzurum over the weekend, the country’s justice minister said Monday.
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World
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Region
5/7/2023 10:19:43 AM
There were 100 of them, all lawyers, determined to make next Sunday's Turkish election as transparent as possible.
Filling a lecture hall in Ankara, they were completing vote monitoring courses organised by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political rivals.
Many were discussing a claim by Turkey's hawkish interior minister that the West was plotting a "political coup attempt" on election day.
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World
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Africa
5/2/2023 1:08:37 PM
Kenyan riot police were out on the streets on Tuesday as the opposition defied a police ban and staged new demonstrations over the cost of living crisis and last year's election results.
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World
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Region
4/24/2023 9:13:53 PM
Preparations are underway for a meeting between the Sudanese army commander, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the chief of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, in Saudi Arabia, opposition leaders in Sudan revealed to Ahram Online on Monday.
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World
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Region
4/21/2023 3:07:01 PM
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned on Friday against Tunisia backtracking on the fundamentals of its democracy, after the arrest of opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi this week.
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World
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Region
4/18/2023 11:13:30 PM
Ennahdha's party leader Rached Ghannouchi was transferred to a hospital Tuesday, a day after he was detained and his home and party headquarters were searched, a lawyer who heads an opposition coalition said.
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World
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Region
4/18/2023 1:41:09 PM
Tunisian authorities closed the offices of Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha on Tuesday, a day after arresting its leader Rached Ghannouchi, a senior party official said.
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World
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Region
4/17/2023 10:11:58 PM
Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied, has been arrested, his Ennahdha party said on Monday, the latest in a string of opposition arrests.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/17/2023 1:20:00 PM
A top Kremlin foe was convicted Monday on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military and sentenced him to 25 years in prison after a trial that marked the latest move in a relentless crackdown on the opposition amid the fighting in Ukraine.
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World
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Region
4/12/2023 12:37:32 PM
Facing a sea of umbrellas in the steady rain, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition's challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month's polls, smiles and promises "the return of spring".
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