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Putin registered as candidate for 2018 presidential race

TheRussianCentralElectionsCommission(CEC)registeredonTuesdayincumbentPresidentVladimirPutinasacandidatefortheupcomingpresidentialelection,saidthecommission'shea

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Crisis-ridden Italian FA fails to elect president

TheItalianfootballfederation(FIGC)sankfurtherintocrisisonMondayafterfailingtoelectanewpresident,two-and-a-halfmonthsafterthenationalteamcrashedoutoftheWorldCup.

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Rwanda to hold first ever presidential debates

Rwandan presidential candidates will for the first time in the history of the country's elections appear in a live television debate ahead of August 4 polls, said the National Electoral Commission (NEC) of the country on Wednesday.

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Japan's ruling LDP suffers historical defeat in Tokyo assembly election

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a historical defeat in Sunday's Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, as Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's new party and its allies scored a sweeping victory.

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Japan's ruling LDP suffers historical defeat in Tokyo assembly election

JapanesePrimeMinisterShinzoAbe'srulingLiberalDemocraticParty(LDP)sufferedahistoricaldefeatinSunday'sTokyometropolitanassemblyelection,asTokyoGovernorYurikoKoike

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Macron factor set to leap from presidency to parliament

BastionsarecrumblingandloyaltiesshiftingaheadofFrance'sparliamentaryelections.EmmanuelMacron,freshfrombecomingtheyoungestFrenchleadersinceNapoleon,nowlookssetto

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France's Macron announces gender equal list of political outsiders

The party of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has selected a diverse list of 428 candidates for parliamentary elections next month.

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Hundreds of medical licenses cancelled over India exam scam

India's Supreme Court has cancelled the licenses of 634 doctors embroiled in a medical school admissions scandal in central Madhya Pradesh state.

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Trump, Clinton finish presidential race with historically poor images: poll

​U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democractic candidate Hillary Clinton have finished their presidential race with the worst images of any U.S. major-party presidential candidates, found a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

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Facebook takes on LinkedIn with new job opening features

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday, it was testing a feature that would let page administrators create job postings and receive applications from candidates, a move that could pressure LinkedIn Corp's (LNKD.N) recruiting business.

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Quirkiness of a very British election shows road to Westminster can be colorful

The first parliamentary elections in Britain since the June 23 EU referendum take place this week to find MPs to replace former prime minister David Cameron and slain Labour politician Jo Cox.

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Fidel Castro says Donald Trump is "disqualified"

​ Former Cuban President, Fidel Castro, said on Sunday that the U.S. Republican candidate for President, billionaire Donald Trump, is "disqualified," after the first debate with his Democrat adversary Hillary Clinton, two weeks ago.

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HK voters elect 70 legislators for 6th term Legislative Council

​Seventy lawmakers have been elected to the sixth Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), according to Hong Kong's Electoral Affairs Commission Monday evening.

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Hong Kong voters head to polls for Legislative Council election

​The election for the sixth-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) began early on Sunday as hundreds of polling stations opened at 7:30 a.m. local time for registered electors to cast their votes.

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Portugal's former PM remains on top of list for next UN chief candidates

Guterres, also the former UN high commissioner for refugees, garnered 11 "encourage" votes, two "discourage" votes and two "no opinion" from the 15-nation council in its second secret straw poll on candidate selection, diplomatic sources said.

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Race for UN chief gathers pace with second straw poll

The race to become the next UN chief gathers pace on Friday (Aug 5) with a second straw poll that could spring surprises and prompt some candidates to end their bid to become the world's top diplomat.

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Security Council holds first secret poll on next UN chief selection

The UN Security Council on Thursday held its first straw poll on candidates vying to become the next UN secretary-general but made no announcement of the results.