Cool head in a rough region, Kenya faces test in election
In his final weeks as president, Uhuru Kenyatta has been busier than usual playing peacemaker in East Africa, thawing tensions ...
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Zubiri willing to postpone SK, brgy polls
Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri is willing to postpone for a year the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections scheduled this ...
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Comelec warns vs. stalling barangay polls
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday warned that postponement of the 2022 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections would ...
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No ‘transformation’ for UK’s Johnson despite vote drubbing
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday he would not undergo any "psychological transformation" despite this week's election drubbing and ...
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Trump pressure to flip election ‘upended’ lives, hearing told
By Frankie Taggart US state lawmakers and poll workers described Tuesday how their lives had been upended by threats of ...
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Jubilant Petro elected Colombia’s first leftist president
BOGOTA—Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first-ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in ...
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Spanish PM thrashed in Andalusia regional election
By Cristina Quicler with Alfons Luna in Madrid Spain's main opposition Popular Party secured a landslide win in a regional ...
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Powers of the Supreme Court
“The legal issues call for the high tribunal to either resolve the (disqualification) cases (against president-elect Bongbong Marcos) on the ...
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SC junks suit vs. reelection of termed-out lawmakers
The Supreme Court has junked a petition seeking to compel the Commission on Elections to strictly enforce the term limits ...
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Last campaign push ahead of poll test for France’s Macron
French opposition forces and allies of centrist President Emmanuel Macron were Friday to make a final push for votes ahead ...
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