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Climate change policies important to Aussie voters ahead of election: poll

​Climate change policies will influence almost half of all Australian voters in this year's federal election, according to results of a survey published on Thursday.

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Super Tuesday take Trump, Clinton closer to party nomination for U.S. presidential race

U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump, of the Republican Party, and Hillary Clinton, of the Democratic Party, won big on Super Tuesday, increasing the likelihood that they will go head to head in a knock-down, drag out fight for the White House.

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Myanmar places Yangon under high security alert ahead of historical election

​Myanmar government has placed Yangon region under high security alert ahead of historical general elections scheduled for Sunday.

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Myanmar election commission notifies change in color with ballot paper

​Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) has notified voters in the country the change in color of contesting political parties' logos.

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U.S. populist candidates basking in limelight in race to White House

​The lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections is not taking the direction everyone has expected, with the most populist candidates getting all the attention, and those expected to be shoe-ins taking a back seat.

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Brazilian President Rousseff leads among women, older voters: poll

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is to compete in a presidential runoff Sunday, leads among women and people aged above 35, according to a poll released Wednesday.

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Halting New Zealand's "dangerous" disengagement from politics

​New Zealand's future could lie in the hands of about a million people -- but they don't seem to care.

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Proposal on minimum wage rejected in Swiss referendum

Swiss voters rejected an initiative to introduce a nationwide minimum wage in a referendum on Sunday.

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No dominating hopeful in upcoming Indonesian presidential election: survey

The upcoming presidential election in Indonesia might have to go through multiple rounds as no single hopeful is expected to gain dominance  with record-breaking growth of swing voters, according to a recent survey.

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Thai election ends, results to be announced after by-election

Voting in Thailand's tense general elections ended at 3 p.m. Sunday and ballot counting has begun. 

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Cambodian election council rejects opposition chief's request to run

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday rejected the request of recently-returned opposition leader Sam Rainsy to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the fifth National Assembly elections on July 28.