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Ohio abortion vote this week may ripple to 2024 US election
AFP, Published on 06/11/2023
» COLUMBUS - As the clock ticks down on a high-stakes vote in the US state of Ohio, activists are out in force urging voters to decide whether to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
UK opposition hails Scottish by-election win
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour party on Friday welcomed a big local election win in Scotland as a sign its electoral fortunes were changing head of a UK general election.
Divorce is party time in Mauritania
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» The henna artist bent over her client's hand, glancing at the smartphone to get the precise details of the pattern chosen by her customer, a young woman living in an ancient desert city in the West African nation of Mauritania.
Swiss vote on net-zero climate law
AFP, Published on 18/06/2023
» GENEVA - The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality by 2050.
Amid melting glaciers, Swiss vote on new climate law
AFP, Published on 18/06/2023
» GENEVA: The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality.
Spanish right surges in local polls, dealing blow to PM
AFP, Published on 29/05/2023
» MADRID - With six months left until Spain's general elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists suffered a major setback in Sunday's local and regional elections, initial results and media projections showed.
Israel's Netanyahu vows unity as thousands decry justice reforms
AFP, Published on 24/03/2023
» TEL AVIV - Israeli divisions over the government's judicial reform programme widened Thursday as police fired water cannon at protesters blocking a highway in Tel Aviv and right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to restore unity.
Peru Congress again rejects snap poll despite protests
AFP, Published on 02/02/2023
» LIMA - Peru's congress on Wednesday voted down another bid to advance elections from April 2024 to this year, a move sought by President Dina Boluarte to calm unrest that has left dozens dead in seven weeks of anti-government protests.
Spain approves trans rights bill that has split the left
AFP, Published on 22/12/2022
» MADRID - Lawmakers on Thursday passed a transgender rights bill allowing anyone 16 and over to change gender on their ID card, putting Spain on track to becoming one of the few countries to allow the change with a simple declaration.
Trump planned 2020 victory speech 'no matter what': Capitol riot probe
AFP, Published on 14/10/2022
» WASHINGTON - Lawmakers investigating Donald Trump's involvement in last year's US Capitol insurrection offered fresh evidence Thursday that the defeated president had planned to declare victory in the 2020 election -- regardless of the outcome.