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Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years over U.S. Capitol riot

Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the far-right group Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in jail for his role in the January 6, 2021, riot o

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Bernardo Arevalo wins Guatemala's presidential election

Bernardo Arevalo has won Guatemala's presidential election, according to a count by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Sunday evening.With 95 percent of ballots counted,

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Israeli lawmakers approve key bill of judicial overhaul plan

Israeli lawmakers on Monday voted into law the first major bill of a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary.The bill, passed with 64 votes in favor, would cancel th

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Thai court suspends Pita as parliament votes for new PM

Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered a temporary suspension of prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat from parliament on Wednesday after accepting a case agai

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Thailnd's Pita the only PM candidate for parliamentary vote

Opposition party leader Pita Limjaroenrat was nominated as only the candidate for Thailand's prime minister after a joint session of both the Senate and House of Repres

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Guatemala's top court orders presidential ballot review

Guatemala's top court on Saturday ordered ballots from the first-round presidential election to be reviewed after the front-runner's party and allies challenged the res

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Montenegro's pro-EU Europe Now Movement claims victory in snap vote

Montenegro's Europe Now Movement (PES) won 25.6% of votes in a snap election on Sunday, the Center for Monitoring and Research (CEMI) pollster said on the basis of a pr

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Greek conservatives win general elections, fall short of majority

Greek conservatives received a clear mandate from the Greek people to continue efforts to change the country with a strong government, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotaki

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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