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<div>Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all rubber-stamped by the Kremlin.</div><div><br /></div><div>But when election officials said results gave him more than 87% of the vote, he said Russia's democracy was more transparent than many in the West.</div>
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<div>Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islam, anti-immigration rhetoric swept his Party for Freedom to a stunning victory in the November election, said earlier this week that he doesn’t have the support of his prospective coalition partners to become the next Dutch prime minister.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wilders took to X, formerly Twitter, to say that “I can only become premier if ALL parties in the coalition support that. That wasn’t the case.” Later, however, he took to X to say that one day, he will have enough support.</div><div><br /></div><div>His coalition consists of 88 seats in the 150-seat parliament. His Freedom Party continues to gain support in the polls.</div>
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<div> Croatia's parliament has been dissolved to pave the way for a parliamentary election later this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>All 143 of a total of 151 lawmakers who were present at the session voted in favor of the move.</div><div><br /></div><div>The date of the election is yet to be set. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has suggested it should be held before the vote for the European Parliament, which will be held on June 6-9.</div><br />
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<div>Voters in the Republic of Ireland have overwhelmingly voted against amending the Irish Constitution.</div><div><br /></div><div>Proposals to alter wording in the constitution to include families which are not based on marriage were defeated with 67.7% voting 'no'.</div><div><br /></div><div>A second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home was defeated by a higher margin with 73.9% of voters rejecting it.</div>
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<div>Iranians are voting for a new parliament in an election marred by frustration over economic woes and restrictions on political and social freedoms.</div><div><br /></div><div>The election on Friday is the first formal measure of public opinion since antigovernment protests in 2022-2023 spiralled into some of the worst political turmoil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.</div>
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<div>A politician in South Africa has accused rival politicians of trying to turn part of South Africa into a ‘Zionist’ state by supporting Israel in the face of Hamas aggression on October 7.</div><div><br /></div><div>In a debate after the country’s State Of The Nation speech from President Cyril Ramphosa, South African Member of Parliament Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam accused the moderate opposition party the Democratic Alliance Party of handing Cape Town to “Zionists.”</div>
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At least eight parliamentary committees in Germany are set to take up a bill to legalize marijuana this week, setting the stage for expected votes on final passage on the floor of the Bundestag on Friday.<br />
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<br />After a painstaking vote count that Opposition parties say had irregularities, it's become clear that Pres. Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas Party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday.<div>
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Europe has long been a bastion of skepticism about genetically engineered organisms, but today the European Parliament voted to lessen regulatory oversight of crops created through one type of DNA manipulation: gene editing.<br />
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Greece’s parliament is to vote Thursday to legalize same-sex civil marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian country and despite opposition from the the powerful Greek Church.<div><br /></div><div>As lawmakers debated the bill for a second day, opinion polls suggest that most Greeks support the proposed reform by a narrow margin. The issue has failed to trigger deep divisions in a country more worried about the high cost of living.<br />
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<div>Tunisia’s parliament is scheduled to consider this week a draft law effectively cutting off diplomatic relations with Israel as pro-Palestinian protests continue in the country amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.</div><div><br /></div><div>This comes after 97 members of parliament out of a total 154 called on the Freedom Committee to expedite consideration of the bill by the full legislature.</div>
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In the lead up to theApril 10 general elections, parties and candidates face a growing backlash over an excessive number of calls and text messages as potential candidates seeking support.<br />
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<div>The federal government is extending its ban on foreign home purchasing in Canada, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced in a release on Sunday.</div><div><br /></div><div>The rule, which was first announced in 2022, will now be extended until the beginning of 2027. It bans foreign nationals and commercial enterprises from buying residential property in Canada, with exceptions for some international students, refugee claimants and temporary workers.</div>
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<br />As expected, Pres Nayib Bukele on Sunday apparently won of El Salvador's national elections in a landslide, claiming he captured more than 85% of the vote - even though electoral officials have not released any results.<br />
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<div>Argentina’s lower chamber of deputies has given overall approval to libertarian president Javier Milei’s sweeping “omnibus” reform bill in a vote on Friday after days of debate, paving the way for a decisive vote in the Senate.</div><div><br /></div><div>The controversial reform package was approved on a vote of 144 votes in favor and 109 against.</div>
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<div>Disposable vapes are set to be banned in Britain as part of plans to tackle the rise in young people vaping and protect children’s health.</div><div><br /></div><div>Prime minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce the plan to implement the ban – using powers already in place under the Environmental Protection Act – which is expected to come into force at the end of 2024 or the start of 2025, during a visit to a school on Monday.</div>
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<div>A Ugandan government minister is facing criticism after calling those who have died of hunger in his country "idiots".</div><div><br /></div><div>Many have deemed Henry Okello Oryem's comments tone-deaf.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 2022, more than 2,200 people died of starvation and related illnesses in northeast Uganda, a report by an official human rights body said.</div>
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