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Portugal is holding an early general election Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters elect 230 lawmakers to the National Assembly, the country’s Parliament. | Photo Credit: AP Voters in Portugal go to the polls on March 10 in an early election that could see the country join a shift to the right seen across Europe…
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A Chinese paramilitary police officer walks at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 3, 2024, ahead of the country’s annual legislative meetings known as the “Two Sessions”. | Photo Credit: AFP China’s annual political conclave kicks off in Beijing on March 4, with officials saying the flagging economy and youth unemployment are of “great concern”…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP One person was missing and 24 others were rescued after their fishing boat lost power and drifted onto rocks in rough seas off Japan, the coast guard said. Dramatic television footage showed the 56-metre (183-foot) vessel on its side being pounded by waves as the…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States. Mr. Putin has said that rescinding the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,…
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The mangled remains of the coaches, which were involved in the collision at Kantakapalli in Vizianagaram district on Sunday evening. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement At least 9 dead, 32 injured as two trains collide near Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh At least nine people were killed and more than 32 injured after two trains collided…
Twelve people aboard a small aircraft died in a crash Sunday morning in Brazil’s Amazon region. The plane went down near the main airport in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state, according to the press office of Gov. Gladson Cameli. Video supposedly of the crash site on social media showed flaming wreckage in the…
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Malaysia’s Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah hugs her brother Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor after the election for the next Malaysian king at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur on October 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Malaysia’s royalty on Friday chose an influential sultan from the southern state of Johor to be the country’s next king….
A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile test-launched at the Plesetsk cosmodrome during a military exercise rehearsing the country’s ability to deliver a massive retaliatory nuclear strike by land, sea and air, in this image taken from video released October…
Two cargo ships collided in the North Sea off the German coast on Tuesday and several people were missing, German authorities said. The ships, Polesie and Verity, collided in the early morning about 22 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of the island of Helgoland, Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies said. One of the ships, the…
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Commenting on the issue of equal political space for parties in the country, Mr. Kakar said, “No political party has been left out of the political process and that the caretaker government is doing its best to assist the electoral process.” File | Photo Credit: PTI Asserting that there will be a level playing field…
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