#ARGENTINA: Center-Left Candidate Wins Presidential Election Amid Economic Crisis

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Center-left opposition candidate Alberto Fernández has been elected president of Argentina in a vote dominated by economic concerns.

Fernández, 60, got more than the 45% of the vote needed to win, beating conservative incumbent Mauricio Macri.

The vote was held amid an economic crisis that has left a third of Argentina's population in poverty.

Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, 66, will now become vice-president in Mr Fernández's administration. She is said to have played a key role in Fernández's electoral triumph.

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#NEWZEALAND: Bill Requiring Governments To Spell Out Plans To Tackle Childhood Poverty Passes Parliament

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's bill seeking a reduction in child poverty has been passed by Parliament. The legislation requires the current and future governments to measure and report on child poverty and sets out plans to reduce it. The recent Child Poverty Monitor report concluded one in five New Zealand children were living in homes without access to enough food or adequate healthy food.

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#SPAIN: Key Electoral Test For Rising Left-Wing Podemos Party In Today's Andalusian Vote

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Polls opened Sunday in Andalusia, one of the poorest parts of Spain, in a regional vote that will be a key test for the anti-austerity Podemos Party as well as the upstart center-right Ciudadanos Party ahead of the country's most unpredictable general election in decades.

#CHINA: Pres. Xi Urges Poverty Program For Historic "Revolutionary Base Areas"

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Touring "Revolutionary Base Areas" - regions used by Mao's army during the Chinese Revolution as military strongholds in difficult terrain - Pres. Xi Jinping said he wants to end poverty in these areas and improve local people's standard of living.

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Coalition Gov't Vows to Spend €800m to Fight Poverty in 2014 [world politics news]

INDIA: Sonia Gandhi Accuses Oppo Parties of "Power Grab" for Opposing Food Bill [world politics news]