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Peruvian Congress rejects president's request for early elections

Peru's Congress has rejected a request by President Dina Boluarte to move forward elections slated for April 2024 to December 2023.The proposal was rejected in the earl

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Twitter users vote for Musk to step down as chief in poll

Twitter users voted for Elon Musk to step down from his role as head of the social platform in a poll the billionaire entrepreneur said he would respect.The result show

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Ruling Nepali Congress party wins most votes: election commission

The ruling Nepali Congress party emerged as the single largest party in national elections held on November 20, winning 89 seats in the 275-member parliament, the elect

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Former Australian PM Scott Morrison censured over secret appointments

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was censured on Wednesday over his self-appointment to five portfolios during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he kept secre

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Slovenia elects first female president

Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer, won the second round of Slovenia's presidential election on Sunday and will become its first female head of state, preliminary results show

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France's far right picks Bardella to replace Le Pen as party chief

France's far-right National Rally designated Jordan Bardella on Saturday to succeed Marine Le Pen as party president and pursue efforts to move it closer to the politic

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UN General Assembly resolution demands end of U.S. embargo on Cuba

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution to demand an end to the decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba.The resolution was adopted with 185 v

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Danish left claims razor-thin election victory

Denmark's incumbent Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen looked set to cling to power after the country's left-wing bloc won a one-seat majority in Tuesday'

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Italy's Giorgia Meloni forms new government

Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy's first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team.Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, swept to victory

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Austria's Van der Bellen re-elected president: projections

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen has been re-elected, projections showed Sunday, on promises of stability.The projections showed the 78-year-old incumbent sw

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Republicans strip $35 insulin price cap from Democrats' bill -- but insist Senate rules are to blame

Nearly uniform Republican opposition in the Senate on Sunday stripped a proposed cap on insulin prices in private insurance from Democrats' party-line climate, health a

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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wins Somali presidential election

Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was re-elected as the 10th president of Somalia, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Farmajo in the third round of vote

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Voting begins in Philippine elections

Filipinos began voting on Monday morning to elect their next president and some 18,000 other officials at all levels of government.A total of 37,211 polling centers acr

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EU chief Von der Leyen in India to talk climate, trade and Ukraine

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in India on Sunday for a two-day trade, security and climate visit, during which she is also expected to disc

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Second round of presidential election starts in East Timor

East Timor on Tuesday holds the second and final round of its presidential election as voters choose between Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and incumbent p

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Macron holds first rally of France election campaign

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday held his first rally of the French election campaign.The first round of elections will be held on April 10, followed by a run-off

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Gabriel Boric inaugurated as youngest president of Chile

Gabriel Boric Font, 36, was inaugurated on Friday as Chile's youngest president.The leftist former student leader and legal and social sciences graduate from the Univer