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A lot of women are rising up: Harris hopes hinge on female vote
In battleground states like Arizona and Michigan, young women are lining up to vote early. Kamala Harris is hoping they are the tide that turns the election for her. On an abnormally warm fall morning on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus, dozens of students stood in line to vote at the university’s early voting centre. Among them was…
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Botswana’s new President sworn in after historic election upset
Botswana’s new president took office Friday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed to the party that had governed the diamond-rich country for nearly 60 years. Human rights lawyer Duma Boko, 54, was sworn in during a closed session at the office of the chief justice three days after elections which booted the…
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Botswana’s peaceful election must be emulated by other African countries- Jonathan
With results of Botswana’s Presidential election expected on Friday, Nigeria’s former President and Africa Union Chief Observer, Goodluck Jonathan says that Botswana’s peaceful approach must be emulated by many other African countries. Jonathan told Journalists in Gaborrone, after visiting several polling units in the capital city as well as the headquarters of the central electoral body. “Botswana is a country…
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AUDIO: Botswana President concedes election defeat, BDP loses power after 58 years
Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat on Friday as preliminary results showed his governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) had lost its parliamentary majority after nearly six decades in power. Masisi’s concession came before the final results were announced, with the BDP trailing in fourth place, according to tallies by the electoral commission. “We got it wrong in the eyes of…
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Three Washington Post editorial board members step down
The ripple effect of Jeff Bezos’s decision to block The Washington Post from endorsing a presidential candidate continues to reverberate through the newspaper, as a tidal wave of readers cancel their subscriptions and nearly one-third of the Post’s editorial board step down in protest. The resignations came Monday as David Shipley, the Post’s editorial page editor, met with staffers in…
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Hezbollah announces Naim Qassem as new leader
Hezbollah has announced the group’s deputy secretary general will become its new head. Naim Qassem replaces long-term leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut last month. He is one of the few senior Hezbollah leaders who remains alive, after Israel killed most of the group’s leadership in a series of attacks. The appointment comes…
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Israel’s open strikes on Iran spark Tehran’s debate on deterrence
Iran rushed to downplay the impact of Israel’s strikes on its territory this weekend, suggesting that it has taken an off-ramp to avoid a wider war, but the attack set a precedent the Islamic Republic has tried to avoid since its inception 40 years ago. The adversaries had spent decades avoiding direct confrontation, instead choosing to exchange punches in a…
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Hezbollah names deputy chief Naim Qassem to succeed slain leader
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday that it has chosen its deputy head, Naim Qassem, to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as leader following Nasrallah’s death in an Israeli strike on southern Beirut last month. “Hezbollah’s Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of Hezbollah,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement, over a month after Nasrallah’s killing. Hezbollah pledged…
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Attack on Chad military base kills at least 40 soldiers
At least 40 Chadian soldiers have been killed after their base was attacked on Sunday evening, the presidency says. President Mahamat Déby has ordered a counter-mission to track down the culprits, according to a statement from his office. The attack reportedly happened on an island called Barkaram, in a vast marshy region that was once covered by the waters of…
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World’s most indebted oil firm is headache for new Mexico leader
After handing the reins of power to Claudia Sheinbaum on 1 October, Mexico’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hoisted her arm aloft in a joint show of victory. López Obrador – a hugely popular but controversial figure in Mexico – bequeathed more than just the presidential sash to his political protégé. She inherits a nation, and an economy, that…
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