#MEXICO: Foreign Minister Resigns To Seek Presidency in 2024

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Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he was stepping down to focus on securing the presidential nomination for the upcoming elections in June 2024.

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#JORDAN: Dignitaries Celebrate Wedding Of Crown Prince Hussein to Saudi Woman

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Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah and Saudi Arabia's Rajwa Alseif tied the knot during ceremonies in the Jordanian capital Amman Thursday.

Prominent royals and political dignitaries from around the world took part, including Britain's Prince William and Princess Kate, as well as US First Lady Jill Biden and US climate envoy John Kerry.

The royal wedding is being celebrated across the kingdom, with the palace declaring a public holiday and arranging an array of celebrations and concerts.

Analysts view the royal wedding as a way for Jordan's royals to project stability following a 2021 palace feud and as the country struggles with economic issues and unemployment.

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#FRANCE: Twitter Could Be BLOCKED By EU, Says French Gov't Min.

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France's Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot waded into a growing tussle between the European Union and Elon Musk's Twitter on Monday, as he threatened the social media platform's access to the bloc.

In comments made on radio network France Info, the minister said that the U.S. company would be banned from the EU if it refused to follow the incoming European Digital Services Act, which goes into effect throughout the EU at the end of August.

"Disinformation is one of the gravest threats weighing on our democracies," said Barrot. "Twitter, if it repeatedly doesn't follow our rules, will be banned from the EU," the French minister added.

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#TURKEY: Erdoğan Wins Third Term After Winning Runoff

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Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has thanked voters after unofficial results showed him winning Turkey’s first-ever presidential election run-off.

The head of the Supreme Election Council said that Erdogan had won a third term, after the state-run Anadolu Agency had earlier given Erdogan a decisive lead over his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, with nearly all of the votes from Sunday’s election counted.

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#GREECE: PM May Seek New Election, Despite Landslide

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The New Democracy party (ND) of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide victory over its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras in Greece's national elections on Sunday, according to official preliminary results.  

With most polling stations processed, the ND reportedly had a 21-point lead over Syriza, but still no absolute majority.  

Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis hailed the outcome as a "political earthquake" and a strong mandate for the ND.

But even if the ND has won the most seats, the lack of an outright victory means Mitsotakis will either have to seek coalition partners or choose to head to a new election.

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#NIGERIA: After Court Battles, New Labour Party Chair Assumes Seat

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The Labour Party, has announced the resumption of office of its embattled national chairman, chairman, Julius Abure.

Also, the party said that other national officers of the party have fully assumed their constitutional responsibilities.

The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Thursday following a press conference held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Abure was elected the party's chairman in 2021,but the previous chair disputed his legitimacy and the question of the leadership of the party has been embroiled in the courts ever since. 

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#CANADA: New Brunswick Premier Wants Parents Notified If Children Change Genders

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New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs wants his province to review policy around LGBTQ issues in schools and believes parents have a right to be told if their children change genders. 

Higgs cited complaints from concerned parents as being behind the need for a review. Additionally, the premier has stated that he doesn’t believe kids should be exposed to drag queen story times “at that age.”

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#GERMANY: Green Plans To Ban Stoves Rejected At Polls In Bremen Local Election

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The German Green party has endured another disappointing election night in the country’s smallest state, Bremen, as voters voice concerns about the social consequences of green transformation projects, including the plan to ban gas stoves, a proposal that proved deeply unpopular with the state's voters.

The northern city state’s incumbent Social Democratic party mayor, Andreas Bovenschulte, emerged ahead in projected results from Sunday’s poll published by the local statistics office, with about 29.5% of the vote. This gives the centre-left the option to either continue governing with the Greens and the left-wing Die Linke, or form a “grand coalition” with the second-placed conservatives.

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#TURKEY: Close Presidential Vote Goes To Run-off May 28

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Turkey’s presidential election is headed for a run-off vote on May 28 after no candidate secured more than 50 percent of the vote.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took 49.5 percent of Sunday’s vote, with his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, getting 44.89 percent, Turkey’s Supreme Election Council said on Monday.

More than 64 million people were eligible to vote to elect a president and parliament for a five-year term.

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