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Former Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has defended his decision to lend his vehicle to Peter Obi during the presidential candidate’s recent visit to the state, describing the gesture as a simple courtesy that should not be interpreted as political collaboration.
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New polling suggests voters are starting to favour smaller parties rather than rallying behind the DA as the ANC loses ground across the metros ahead of November’s local government elections.
By the time you read this, delegates at the South African Football Association (Safa) congress would have chosen between sleepy Danny Jordaan and Durban tycoon Sandile Zungu for president.
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to "pretend that I'm on the ballot," as vulnerable GOP incumbents rallied at the first-ever midterm convention.
Gun violence, asylum policy and welfare reform dominate Sweden's election as Ulf Kristersson's coalition battles Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats.
T.W. Shannon says Donald Trump transformed the GOP into a working party, pointing to job creation and lower crime as keys to winning Black voters.
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‘BASIC DECENCY,’ PLEASE Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. points to the handwritten note suddenly handed to him as he was talking at a security forum in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday. The note reiterated Beijing’s rejection of the 2016 arbitral ruling on the West Philippine...
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The stakes are high in Sweden's general election, with the far right poised to enter government for the first time. TV4 News journalist Markus Karlsson-Bourrioux explains how opinion polls shifted from a comfortable centre-left lead to a tight race over the summer, and how far-ri...
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Caught in the crossfire of an increasingly violent internal war are the civilians living around Colombia’s primary cocaine trafficking routes in northern and western areas of the country. Alex Croft reports
The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt has sent shockwaves through Germany and Europe as far-right parties continue to rise across the continent. Intense hostility has left migrants and minorities in fear of attacks and abuse, Alex Croft reports
Candidates to be announced on September 15. According to Mr. Veerapandian, the upcoming bypolls in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram constituencies are not normal byelections, but what he termed as byelections imposed on people.
Opposition leaders described the Prime Minister's reference to individuals with a “Naxal mentality" as an attempt to target the Opposition.
On reports that headmasters of government and government-aided schools having been asked to bear the expenses of the launch of expansion of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme on September 17, the AMMK leader urged the government to drop the move.