World
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International
2/7/2024 7:01:30 PM
Pakistan's 127 million voters get to elect a new parliament on Thursday. The elections are the twelfth in the country’s 76-year history, which has been marred by economic crises, military takeovers and martial law, militancy, political upheavals and wars with India.
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World
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International
2/7/2024 11:47:47 AM
No-one won the Republican Party primary in the US state of Nevada on Tuesday, with Nikki Haley defeated by "None of these candidates," an embarrassment in a vote in which she was all but unopposed.
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World
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International
2/7/2024 10:53:19 AM
A pair of bombings at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan killed at least 24 people and wounded more than two dozen others, officials said Wednesday, the day before parliamentary elections are to be held.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/6/2024 11:18:49 PM
A Cairo misdemeanour court sentenced on Tuesday Ahmed Tantawy, a former presidential hopeful, to one year in prison for printing and circulating “unauthorized” endorsement forms.
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World
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Africa
2/6/2024 10:51:09 PM
Senegal's opposition on Tuesday denounced a "constitutional coup" after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
2/6/2024 8:23:01 PM
Pakistan gears up for heated elections in a complex political and economic landscape.
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World
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Africa
2/4/2024 10:21:34 PM
Protesters and police clashed in the Senegalese capital Dakar and at least one senior opposition figure was arrested Sunday, a day after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election.
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World
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International
1/24/2024 11:18:11 AM
Donald Trump won the key New Hampshire primary Tuesday, moving him ever closer to locking in the Republican presidential nomination and securing an extraordinary White House rematch with Joe Biden.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/23/2024 10:48:57 PM
Ever since Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, a main Israeli highway has been flanked by billboards preaching national unity and a ubiquitous wartime slogan: “Together we will win.”
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World
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International
1/21/2024 10:39:17 PM
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign Sunday on the eve of the New Hampshire primary and endorsed Donald Trump, ending a White House bid that failed to meet expectations that he would emerge as a serious challenger to the former president.
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World
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International
1/21/2024 4:24:46 PM
The UK is taking threats of foreign interference elections expected later this year "very seriously", the defence minister said Sunday, after a warning from a counter-terrorism official.
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World
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Africa
1/20/2024 6:31:56 PM
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, was sworn in for a second five-year term on Saturday after sweeping elections that the opposition branded a sham while calling for protests.
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Opinion
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1/13/2024 6:06:33 PM
If the 2024 presidential race is between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the political landscape is poised for a heated and closely followed campaign.
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World
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Africa
1/13/2024 12:26:10 PM
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party will celebrate Saturday the 112th anniversary of its establishment ahead of national elections, expected to be the toughest since it came to power in 1994.
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World
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International
1/10/2024 4:04:48 PM
More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet's population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news. The year looks set to test even the most robust democracies and to strengthen the hands of leaders with authoritarian leanings.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/7/2024 4:40:20 PM
Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night in Tel Aviv and outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, where they demanded immediate elections amid the PM’s failure to return Israeli captives through the war on Gaza.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/4/2024 8:28:09 PM
A new round of the National Dialogue is expected to start soon.
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World
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Africa
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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Opinion
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12/23/2023 12:43:16 PM
The results of Egypt’s 2024 presidential elections, with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi securing a new term, mark the timely accomplishment of a crucial constitutional milestone despite the escalating external threats facing Egypt from various directions.
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Opinion
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12/22/2023 5:16:48 PM
The issue is not only who wins the elections but rather the overall atmosphere surrounding them, which is different this time.
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