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2 days agoStarmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount
Keir Starmer will promise bolder action and closer EU ties while facing growing Labour MP pressure to step down.
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4 days agoDanish rightwing leader asked to form government after Frederiksen fails to form coalition
The king of Denmark has asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has failed to put together a ruling coalition. The announcement on Friday night shook the political establishment as Frederiksen has been a staple of Danish politics for decades. Her left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, won the plurality of votes in parliamentary elections in March. But despite winning the most votes, it was the Social Democrats' worst electoral showing since 1903 and no party won a majority.
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1 month agoKosovo faces third legislative election in just over a year
Kosovo faces a constitutional crisis as opposition parties boycott the presidential election, refusing to allow Prime Minister Kurti's party to control both government and presidency, triggering mandatory new parliamentary elections.
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2 months agoA Sweeping Victory for Gen Z in Nepal-but Not Yet a "Revolution"
Nepal's Gen Z uprising in September resulted in 77 deaths, the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, and parliamentary dissolution, leading to special elections that swept legacy parties from power in March.
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2 months agoNepal elections: Gen Z hopes for genuine political reforms
I wasn't pelting stones. I was arranging water for people around me, and blinded by tear gas when the police opened fire. The youth-led demonstrations, fueled by popular anger against Nepal's ruling class over rampant corruption and unemployment, forced then Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign.
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2 months agoBalen Shah: Rapper, mayor, Nepal's next prime minister?
Balen Shah, a 35-year-old former Kathmandu mayor and rap sensation, is positioning himself as a prime ministerial candidate by contesting parliamentary elections against former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in a Communist Party stronghold.
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5 months agoEgypt's all-important parliamentary elections aren't elections at all
The vote is carefully managed from start to finish so that only one outcome is possible: a longer lease on power for el-Sisi. It is difficult to overstate the importance of Egypt's ongoing House of Representatives elections. The voting results will not only decide the composition of the next parliament but will also determine whether, and for how long, the rule of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be extended.
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8 months agoWho is Thailand's new PM Anutin Charnivirakul? DW 09/08/2025
Anutin, 58, is heir to Sino-Thai, one of Thailand's largest construction firms, where he served as president before entering politics in the 1990s. His political career has spanned nearly 30 years. Anutin has served in a variety of high-profile positions, including as deputy prime minister for the past six years, health minister from 2019 to 2023, and then as interior minister until this year. His time as health minister coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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