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Fianna Fail wins most parliamentary seats in Irish general election: official results

Ireland's main opposition party Fianna Fail replaced Fine Gael as the country's biggest party by winning the most number of parliamentary seats in the country's 2020 general election on Monday. Acco

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Orbán’s Hungary is not the future of Europe: it represents a dying past

Thedecliningbirthrateandbraindrainarelikelytocontinue,asafearfulHungaryturnsinonitselfeverfurtherOnSundayHungarianswenttothepollstoelectanewparliament.Atstakewa

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European Parliament votes to reduce seats after Brexit

TheEuropeanParliamentvotedWednesdaytoreduceitsnumberofseatsandredistributesometounder-representedcountriesaspartofitspost-Brexitrestructuring.AfterBritainleaves

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Nepal's CPN-UML party big winner in historic elections

AsthevotecountingforthefederalparliamentandprovincialassemblyelectionsinNepalcametoanendonWednesday,theCommunistPartyofNepal-UnitedMarxistLeninist(CPN-UML)emerg

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With victory of Japan’s LDP, how far's Abe from constitutional amendment

ByAPDcommentatorJiXiaojing(TranslatedbyShiXiaomeng)Inthewindandrain,theelectionforJapan’sHouseofRepresentativesconcludedonOct.22.Intheelection,1180candidateshad

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High-speed rail passengers can choose their own seats

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Chinese high-speed rail passengers can choose their own seats

Passengerscannowselecttheirseatswhenbuyingticketsonlineforbullettrains-partofanefforttoimprovecustomerservice,ChinaRailwayCorpsaidonThursday.Whenenteringthetick

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New Zealand unveils final election results with coalition gov't pending

NewZealandElectoralCommissiondeclaredtheofficialresultsforthe2017generalelectiononSaturdaywhileawinnerisstillpendingaftertheSept.23electionslefttherulingpartyan

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How Germans vote for their members of parliament

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New Zealand's general elections yield no clear winner as tally ends

NewZealand'sparliamentaryelectionsonSaturdayyieldnoclearwinnerastallyendedintheweehoursofSunday,leavingthethirdlargestpartywith7.5percentofthevotesthekingmaker.

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China: Macao elects 26 new legislators

MacaoSpecialAdministrativeRegion(SAR)haselected26memberstoitsnew33-memberlegislature,withtheremainingseatstobeappointedbyChiefExecutiveFernandoChuiSaiOnwithinth

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Police investigate Conservatives over call centre use during election

Policearecarryingouta"significant"investigationintoclaimstheConservativesmayhaveactedillegallybyusingacallcentreinWalestodirectlycontactvotersduringtheGeneralEl

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One of Uber’s biggest investors is suing Travis Kalanick for fraud

BenchmarkCapital,oneofUber’smostinfluentialinvestorsandlargestshareholders,issuingformerCEOTravisKalanickforfraud,accordingtoAxios.Thecomplaint,whichwasfiledinD

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Macron marches to massive majority in French parliament

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party was on course for a massive majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, routing the country's traditional forces in a dramatic re-drawing of the political map.

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Macron camp talks up electoral reform plan as likely landslide grows

New French President Emmanuel Macron's government reaffirmed on Friday its plan for electoral reform as the scale of the likely parliamentary majority it is set to win grew and predicted voter turnout shrank.

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Macron camp talks up electoral reform plan as likely landslide grows

NewFrenchPresidentEmmanuelMacron'sgovernmentreaffirmedonFridayitsplanforelectoralreformasthescaleofthelikelyparliamentarymajorityitissettowingrewandpredictedvot

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Close them up! Madrid launches campaign to tackle manspreading

Madridhasbecomethelatestcitytotacklethephenomenonofmanspreading,launchingacampaignaskingmalepublictransportuserstokeeptheirlegstothemselveswhenridingthesubway.N