CZECHIA: Defense Min. Says Nation Should Leave UN For Failing To Condemn Hamas Attack On Israel

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Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová has  lcalled on her government  to leave the UN for supporting terrorism: “Three weeks ago Hamas murdered over 1400 Israelis, more victims for their population than Al Qaeda murdered in the US on 9/11. 

And only 14 countries, including ours, have spoken out clearly against this unprecedented terrorist attack. I am ashamed of the UN. Czech Republic has no place in an organization that cheers on terrorists and does not respect the fundamental right to self-defense. Let's get out!”

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SLOVAKIA: PM Fico Returns To Power

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Slovakia is poised to have a new government led once again by Robert Fico. With help from a former party member and the extreme right, Fico has been parroting Viktor Orbán’s rhetoric, raising speculation if Bratislava will soon go the same direction as Budapest or stay on calmer terms with the EU.

After securing his coalition deal with his old cabinet colleagues, Robert Fico has not backed down from his aggressive rhetoric, earning a suspension for his Smer Party from the Party of European Socialists (PES).

Some of the cabinet nominees caused an outcry in the Slovak media over their pro-Kremlin and conspiracy talking points, while concerns are high that Smer will meddle with the judiciary and police, possibly threatening the country’s access to vitally needed EU funds.

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#CANADA: Ontario MPP Expelled From NDP Over Hamas Statements

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The Ontario Canada New Democratic Party has Expelled a member of the provincial Parliament from its caucus. 

Sarah Jama was removed after she first refused to join the Caucus in condemning the terror group Hamas after it attacked Israel on October 7, and then went on to defend it in public statements.

After two weeks of growing controversy, New Democratic Party Leader Marit Stiles ejected Jama (Hamilton Centre) from the party caucus following a controversial statement about the Hamas-Israel war.

Citing unilateral actions taken by Jama, such as refusing to delete the original statement, Stiles said Monday, “I have been left with no option.”

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ECUADOR: Center-Right Candidate Noboa Defeats Leftist In Pres. Election

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Center-right candidate Daniel Noboa, the 35-year-old son of a banana tycoon, will become Ecuador’s next president, and the nation's youngest, following an election driven by concerns over rising violence and a worsening security situation in the Latin American nation.

Noboa won 52.3% of the votes. His main political rival, leftist candidate and first round front-runner Luisa González, obtained 47.7% of votes.

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AUSTRALIA: Four Greens Vote Against Motion To Condemn Hamas In Parliament

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Australian Greens in parliament have refused to support a motion by prime Minister Anthony Albanese to condemn Hamas, the group that attacked Israel and that is still holding civilian hostages.  The motion passed 135-4. 

Adam Bandt, Max Chandler-Mather, Stephen Bates and Elizabeth Watson-Brown are the only MPs who voted against the motion. 

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POLAND: Pro-EU Opposition Leads Gov't In Sunday's Election

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Politicians across Europe cheered Sunday’s projected victory by Polish opposition forces — especially in Germany, the favorite target of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party.  

“I expect that Poland will become a constructive partner and that the change in government will strengthen its standing in Europe,” Terry Reintke, a German MEP who is co-leader of the Greens in the European Parliament, told German radio. “Poland is an extremely relevant democracy for Europe.“

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AUSTRALIA: Voters Decisively Reject Aboriginal "Voice" Plan For Parliament

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Advocates for constitutional change in Australia said they were devastated by the defeat Saturday of a referendum that would have created an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people, the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority.

More than 59 per cent of voters opposed Voice to Parliament, with almost half the votes counted by Saturday. The loss is unofficial but is not contested. All six states voted against the plan. 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blamed his political opponents' campaigning against the measure for the failure. Critics say backers of the Voice were vague on details of the body, including how its members would be chosen and its powers. Opponents also called the plan racially divisive.

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#NEWZEALAND: Voters Elect A Conservative Gov't, Reject Labour

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After an election campaign of fits and starts, in which neither major party appeared to offer much solace to a weary nation, voters in New Zealand on Saturday were projected to oust the party once led by Left-leaning Jacinda Ardern and elect the country’s most conservative government in a generation, handing victory to a coalition of two conservative parties.

New Zealand’s next prime minister will be Christopher Luxon, a former chief executive of Air New Zealand, whose center-right National Party will lead a coalition with Act, a smaller libertarian party.

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#ISRAEL: Netanyahu, Gantz Form Emergency Wartime Gov't

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity party leader Benny Gantz announced a landmark agreement on Wednesday to establish an emergency wartime government, after Hamas launched a brutal and unprecedented assault on Israel early Saturday that claimed the lives of over 1,200 Israelis, the single deadliest day in the country’s history.

The establishment of the new “national emergency government” — an unthinkable prospect mere days ago amid long months of bitter national divisions over Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plans — underscored the extent of the shock the nation has suffered and the degree to which politicians and the entire country have been unnerved by the sudden severe threat to national security.

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#GERMANY: Greens Suffer Worst Defeat In 20 Years In Regional Elections

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Germany’s Green party suffered its worst electoral defeat in a regional election since teaming up with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Free Liberals (FDP) in a nationwide coalition in Berlin in 2021.

Support for the party in the city state of Bremen fell to the lowest level in more than 20 years, according to exit polls.

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#ISRAEL: Opposition Leaders Open To Unity Gov't Following Hamas Attack, War

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Israeli opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz have expressed their willingness to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in light of the attack on Israel by Hamas in the Gaza strip. But Lapid demanded that far-right leaders, and government ministers,  Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir be removed from the cabinet. Gantz agreed to join alongside the two.

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#UK: PM Proposes Law To ban Cigarette Sales For Tq1hose Born After 2009

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to create a ‘smokefree generation.’

This will mean it will be illegal for anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 to be sold cigarettes in England, "He says the law will protect an entire generation of young people from the harms of smoking."

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#NEWZEALAND: PM Hipkins tests Positive For Covid-19 Two Weeks Before Election

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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has tested positive for COVID-19 and will work remotely while isolating, his office said Sunday, just two weeks before a general election in which his Labour party is struggling.

The positive test will temporarily sideline Hipkins in the campaign for the Oct. 14 election. Labour has been sliding in the opinion polls, with the center-right National party leading by 31.9% to 26.5% in a recent survey.

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#SLOVAKIA: Pro-Russia Ex-PM Win Majority in Parliament

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Slovakia’s populist former prime minister, Robert Fico, who campaigned on a pledge to end military aid to Ukraine, has said his position “has not changed” after his party’s clear election win made him favourite to lead the country for a fourth time.

Fico told reporters he was waiting for Slovakia’s president to give him a mandate to start forming a government – expected on Monday – after officials said on Sunday that Smer-SD had scored 22.9% in Saturday’s vote with 99.98% of ballots counted.

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