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'Sex and the City' star joins New York governor race

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US House intelligence panel votes to release Democratic memo

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APD Review | Abe faces high odds in election, difficult future of ruling

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Abe faces high odds in election, difficult future of ruling

ByAPDCommentatorJiXiaojingTranslatedbyYeShanThe48thHouseofRepresentativeselectioninJapanwasofficiallyannouncedonOct.10,withabout2,000candidatescontendingfor465s

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Opposition party in Japan faces gloomy election prospects

TheDemocraticParty(Japan),headedbynewly-electedleaderSeijiMaehara,wasexpectedtomakeabigmoveinthecountry'sgeneralelectionthisfallafterannouncingastringofnewappoi

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Cabinet of Japanese PM endorses plan to convene extra Diet session

JapanesePrimeMinisterShinzoAbe'scabinetformallyannouncedonFridaytherulingcoalition'splantoconveneanextraordinaryDietsessiononSeptember28,theoutsetofwhichwilllik

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Trump strikes Dreamers deal with Democrats, details disputed

USPresidentDonaldTrumpandcongressionalDemocratshaveagreedtoworktogetheronlegislationtoprotect"Dreamers",thesecondmajoractofcooperationbetweenthepreviouslywarrin

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German election: Merkel and Schulz to face off in TV debate

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Democratic women wear white to Trump's address

Democratic women in Congress made an impression Tuesday evening as they sat in the audience for President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress.

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Clinton campaign chairman says several states too close to call

​U.S. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said early Wednesday that several states were too close to call.

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Japan's Abe not ruling out snap election early next year amid speculation

​Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not rule out the possibility of dissolving the lower house of Japan's parliament and calling a snap election as early as next January.

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U.S. says hackers probed voting systems, no sign of damage

Hackers have probed the voting systems of many U.S. states but there is no sign that they have manipulated any voting data, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Saturday.

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Japan's opposition parties demand Abe ditch plans to amend pacifist constitution

​Opposition parties in Japan who recently agreed to cooperate to hold the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led bloc more accountable in parliament, took aim at Prime Minster Shinzo Abe's plans to amend Japan's pacifist Constitution on Tuesday.

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U.S. authorities probing cyber attacks targeting U.S. media: report

U.S. law enforcement agencies are currently investigating a series of cyber breaches targeting The New York Times and other U.S. media outlets, according to CNN.

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Clinton makes history amid party division, fears of more email leaks

Hillary Clinton, who won the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, has made history as the first woman to run for the White House on behalf of a major U.S. political party.

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Clinton becomes first female presidential nominee of major U.S. political party

Amid huge applause in the convention hall and angry protests outside, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday officially became the first woman to run for the White House on behalf of a major U.S. political party.

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Japan's Democratic Party election campaign platform vows to block Abe's war moves

​Japan's main opposition Democratic Party on Wednesday pledged to block the controversial revision to a key pacifist clause in the Constitution being pitched by the ruling bloc, as the party set out its campaign platform for the upper house election on July 10.