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Spain's Sanchez wins investiture vote to be PM

Socialist Party leader Pedro Sanchez won in Tuesday's second investiture vote to be returned to office as prime minister of Spain. Sanchez won with 167 votes in favor, 165 against and 18 abstentions

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Libya's east-based parliament votes to cut ties with Turkey

Libya's east-based House of Representatives on Saturday voted to cut ties with Turkey after Turkish approval of sending troops to Libya to support the UN-backed governm

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Catalan President barred from office by Spain's electoral commission, throwing doubt on Sanchez coalition

Spain's Central Electoral Commission voted on Friday to remove pro-independence Catalonia's president Quim Torra from office. The decision comes a few days before Spain

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Israeli Court Dismisses Petition to Block Netanyahu Re-Election Campaign - Reports

Israel’s High Court of Justice has dismissed a petition submitted by 67 plaintiffs to deprive current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the right to form a new gover

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Russia proposes U.N. resolution to condemn U.S.-led Syria strikes

RussiaproposedadraftUnitedNationsSecurityCouncilresolutiononSaturday,seenbyReuters,thatwouldcondemn“theaggressionagainsttheSyrianArabRepublicbytheU.S.anditsalli

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Putin re-elected Russian president, early poll data confirms

IncumbentRussianPresidentVladimirPutinwon76.6percentofballotsafter99.83percentofvoteshadbeencountedinthepresidentialelectionSunday,CentralElectionCommission(CEC

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Two shot dead in Kenya after court upholds Kenyatta's victory

AtleasttwopeoplewereshotdeadbypoliceinthewesterncountyofMigoriandinNairobi'sKibraslumsonMondayafteroppositionsupportersstageddemonstrationsagainsttheoutcomeofth

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Merkel suffers another blow as coalition talks begin

AnotherpoorperformanceinelectionsweakenedGermanChancellorAngelaMerkel’shandfurtherasshebeginsdifficultcoalitiontalksonMonday.Merkel'sChristianDemocraticUnion(CD

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How Germans vote for their members of parliament

TheGermanelectoralsystemiscomplicated,socomplicatedinfactthatevensomeGermansdon'tunderstandit.Sohowdoestheirvotingsystemwork?TheGermansarevotingfortheirlegislat

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Kenyan president vows to hand over power if defeated

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to hand over power peacefully should he be defeated in the upcoming elections.

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Ram Nath Kovind elected as India’s 14th President

ByAPDWriterRishikaChauhanNEWDELHI,July21(APD)--RamNathKovind,theformergovernoroftheprovinceofBiharwonthepresidentialelectionwith66%votesonThursday.Kovindis71yea

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Cambodian ruling party wins majority in local elections: PM

The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won the majority in the fourth commune elections on Sunday, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Monday.

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South Korean parliament approves Moon's pick for prime minister

SouthKorea'sparliamentapprovedPresidentMoonJae-in'sselectionofLeeNak-yonasprimeministeronWednesday,backingtheformerlawmakerandgovernorofSouthJeollaProvincetobec

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Ex-deputy leader of Taiwan Wu Den-yih leads in KMT leader election

WuDen-yih,deputyleaderofTaiwanfrom2012to2016,isexpectedtobeelectedasthenewchairpersonofKuomintang(KMT)onSaturday.Wuhasalreadypickedupover140,000votes,accordingt

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US elections: Small town of Dixville Notch keeps up tradition of being first to vote, Clinton wins with four votes

The first result from the US presidential election on Tuesday (Nov 8) is out. Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton has won in Dixville Notch, a tiny town in New Hampshire with just eight votes.

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Russia's ruling United Russia party leads in parliamentary elections

Exit polls showed that Russia's ruling party the United Russia led in Sunday's election of the lower house of the parliament with 44.5 percent of votes.