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Kuwait
30 candidates submit applications for “23” parliament election
Kuwait: At least 30 Kuwaitis including a single female citizen submitted on Friday their candidacy documents to the election affairs…
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Medical clinic offers services to Kuwaiti parliament hopefuls, elections registration staff
Kuwait: A medical clinic was set up near the headquarters of the Interior Ministry’s elections affairs department in Shuwaikh residential…
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Kyrgyzstan holds parliamentary vote as tensions rise
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan went to parliamentary polls yesterday as tensions simmer after claims of a plot to unseat populist President Sadyr…
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Kyrgyzstan detains 15 in ‘coup plot’ before vote
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Security services in Kyrgyzstan said Friday they had arrested 15 people in connection with an alleged coup plot…
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Le Pen facing biggest test as French far-right splinters
MARSEILLE: On a tour of a fine-food trade show, surrounded by cheese and truffles, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen…
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Ortega under fire for Nicaragua vote ‘farce’
MANAGUA: Nicaragua’s longtime leader Daniel Ortega faced a torrent of international criticism Monday after he won a fourth straight presidential…
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Glitches hit Nigeria southeast election
ANAMBRA: Technical problems hit a governorship election in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Anambra on Saturday during a vote seen as…
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Uzbek leader set to win with no real opposition
TASHKENT: Voters across Uzbekistan in Central Asia took to the polls yesterday in a presidential election where incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev…
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Pro-Iran Hashed punished in Iraq vote
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s election was a disaster for the pro-Iranian former paramilitary force Hashed Al-Shaabi, with voters desperate for an economic…
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Pro-Iran groups denounce Iraq’s election as scam
BAGHDAD: Two days after Iraq’s legislative election, pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim parties and armed groups yesterday denounced early poll results suggesting…
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Iraqis vote with little hope for change
BAGHDAD: Iraqis voted yesterday in a parliamentary election a year early as a concession to an anti-government protest movement but…
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In Iraq vote, big blocs lurk behind ‘independents’
BAGHDAD: When Iraqis go to the polls Sunday, they will vote for individual candidates rather than parties for the first…
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