#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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#THENETHERLANDS: New Populist Party Wins Big In Provincial Elections

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A new populist party riding anger among Dutch farmers and rural communities at government policies to rein in agricultural pollution emerged as the big winner in provincial elections Wednesday, according to early exit polls.

The elections for the Netherlands’ 12 provincial legislatures also indirectly decide the makeup of the country’s national senate — and the win for the Farmer Citizen Movement was seen as a powerful protest vote against Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his four-party center-right governing coalition.

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#SWITZERLAND: Parliamentary Commission Says Milirary Aid To Ukraine Possible

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A Commission of the Council of Cantons of the Federal Assembly, the upper house of the Swiss Parliament, has recommended easing export controls on Swiss military equipment, which could potentially benefit Ukraine in the future.

The commission, taking into account the country's long-standing policy of military neutrality, adopted proposals according to which, after a similar decision of the sister committee of the lower house of parliament in January, a corresponding draft law on the possible re-export of Swiss weapons to third countries under certain strict conditions can now be prepared.

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#CANADA: Poll: NDP Leads In Alberta

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A new poll on Saturday is reporting the Alberta NDP and Rachel Notley have taken the lead in the next Alberta Election.

It appears the Alberta NDP gained seven points over the UCP heading into the May general election which will determine who becomes premier.

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#CAMBODIA: Top Opposition Leader Kept Off Ballot

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Cambodia’s election committee on Tuesday rejected Rong Chhun, a top candidate from the country’s main opposition party and said the party must correct several things before its candidates can be allowed to run in the July 23 parliamentary elections.

The decision comes a day after Monday’s deadline for parties to submit applications to participate in the vote that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party is widely expected to win. 

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#EU: Euro Parliament Votes More Ammo To Ukraine

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European Union lawmakers decided Tuesday to fast-track legislation to boost ammunition and missile production in the 27-nation bloc to support the war effort in Ukraine.

Members of the European Parliament voted 518-39 with 31 abstentions to trigger an urgent procedure that should allow the adoption of the bill during the EU legislature's next plenary session at the end of the month, after which talks can start up with EU member nations.

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#HONGKONG: Artist Arrested Over Tiananmen Sculpture

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Hong Kong police have seized a sculpture by a Danish artist commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre as evidence of "incitement to subvert state power," a charge under the national security law.

Police took the two-ton, eight-meter copper “Pillar of Shame” sculpture in honor of the victims of the June 4, 1989, crackdown by the People's Liberation Army from storage in the northern district of Yuen Long, they said.

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#JAPAN: Woman Of Uyghur Ethnicity Wins Seat In Parliament

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A Japanese woman of Uyghur ethnicity and who was educated in the United States has been elected a member of the Japanese parliament — the first person of Uyghur heritage to run as a major party candidate in an election there.

Arfiya Eri, a 34-year-old member of the Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, was elected on Sunday to the lower house of the Japanese Diet to represent Chiba prefecture’s 5th district. She captured the seat previously held by Kentaro Sonoura, a former LDP lawmaker who resigned last December over a political funds scandal.

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#PAKISTAN: Former PM Khan Arrested

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Imran Khan, Pakistan’s 5former prime minister, has been arrested by military police  during a court appearance in the capital, Islamabad, to face corruption allegations.

Video of the arrest shared by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party showed security forces in riot-control gear whisking the 70-year-old away in a van. The PTI urged supporters to take to the streets.

A controversial and polarizing figure, Khan has been a vocal critic of the military and his opponents since his ouster from office late last year. 

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#JORDAN: Lower House Strips Member Of Immunity From Prosecution

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The Lower House of Parliament voted to strip MP Emad Adwan of immunity from prosecution shortly after he returned to the Kingdom Sunday morning following a two-week detention in Israel, Where he had been arrested We're attempting to swaggle 200 guns and gold into the West bank.

House Speaker Ahmad Safadi told reporters following a closed House session that the move to strip Adwan of parliamentary immunity followed a request by the State Security Court which was submitted to the legislature by the government.

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#ESWATINI: Absolute Monarchy To Hold Sept. Elections

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Eswatini -- the last absolute monarchy in Africa where political parties are banned and lawmakers are sidelined by the king -- will hold parliamentary elections on September 29, the election authorities said Friday.

The vote is unlikely to change the political scenery in the southern African nation of 1.2 million people that has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986. The king wields absolute power.

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#FRANCE: Parliament Votes Down Condemnation Of Israel As "Apartheid Regime"

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France’s National Assembly rejected a motion by the communists to denounce “Israel’s institutionalization of an apartheid regime,” ignoring calls from leftist politicians to vote “on the side of international law.”

The resolution failed to pass, with 199 against and 71 in favour, according to Le Figaro. It was supported by the leftist populist party La France Insoumise and the centre-left Ecologist Party but was denounced by the presidential camp, Socialist Party deputies, the right and the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF).

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#HUNGARY: Parliament Passes Judicial Reforms Demanded By EU

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The Hungarian Parliament voted to approve the judicial reform package needed to unlock €13.2 billion from the frozen EU cohesion funds on Wednesday, May 3rd, a day after the Hungarian prime minister met with Johannes Hahn, the EU’s budget commissioner in Budapest.

Even if the reforms were technically approved by the EU, it could still take months until the European Commission gives the final green light for releasing the funds, while the rest of the €27.8 billion of EU funds it decided to withhold from the country last year will remain tied to further legislative steps.

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#PARAGUAY: Conservative Peña Wins Presidential Election

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Santiago Peña has won Paraguay’s election, returning the conservative Colorado Party to government after a tightly-contested campaign that had threatened to end its seven-decade hold on power.

The 44-year-old economist and former finance minister had 42.7 percent of the vote with more than 99 percent of ballots counted, a more than 15-point lead over centre-left rival Efrain Alegrem a 60-year-old lawyer from the Concertacion coalition, according to the electoral body.

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#IRAN: Industry Min. Removed Due To Rising Prices

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Iran's parliament voted in an impeachment session on Sunday to remove the industry minister amid soaring prices as the Islamic Republic's economy reels under the pressure of international sanctions. 

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