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Mother Of Colombian Leader Shot In Head Was Kidnapped By Pablo Escobar
Diana Turbay was a journalist and was kidnapped in 1990 by a group working under drug lord Pablo Escobar. She died in a failed rescue attempt.
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Video: Colombian Presidential Candidate Shot In Head During Rally
A Colombian right-wing opposition senator and candidate to next year's presidential election was in intensive care Saturday after being shot during a campaign event in Bogota, authorities said.
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South Korean President Takes Over A Country Deeply Split By Gender Politics
Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea's snap presidential election with a clear lead. With all of the ballots counted, Lee won almost 50% of the vote, ahead of his conservative rival Kim Moon-soo on 41%.
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South Korea's Liberal Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election
South Korea's liberal party candidate, Lee Jae-myung, was elected president in Tuesday's snap election, six months to the day after he evaded military cordons to vote against a shock martial law decree imposed by his ousted predecessor.
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Polish PM To Call For Vote Of Confidence In Government
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk will call for a parliamentary vote of confidence in his coalition government, after his candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, lost the presidential election on Sunday.
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Right-Wing Karol Nawrocki Wins Poland Presidential Election
Polish nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki won the second round of the country's presidential election with 50.89% of the votes, the electoral commission said early on Monday, in a blow to the reform agenda of the pro-European government.
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South Korea's Presidential Candidate Lee Jae-myung Leads In Opinion Polls
South Korea's liberal frontrunner for president Lee Jae-myung was leading his main conservative rival Kim Moon-soo by more than 10 percentage points in an opinion poll issued on Tuesday, though the race had tightened a week ahead of the election.
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Elon Musk Says He'll Resume Working '24/7' at His Companies, X Outage Mostly Restored
Elon Musk's X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users in the US on Saturday. Musk has now decided that he is shifting his attention back to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.
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How Starbucks Is Keeping Politics Out Of Coffee In South Korea
This move is a response to the growing trend of customers using politicians' names as nicknames when ordering drinks, often accompanied by messages of support or opposition.
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RFK Jr Slammed For Swimming In Sewage-Filled Rock Creek With Grandchildren
For a day out with grandchildren, the former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr chose Washington's Rock Creek, despite enormous evidence of its water being contaminated with harmful bacteria.
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South Korea's Conservatives Move To Switch Presidential Candidates
South Korea's conservatives dropped their presidential candidate on Saturday and reopened the nomination process, after the former prime minister decided to join the party to challenge the liberal frontrunner in an election just four weeks away.
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Trump Says Conviction Of France's Far Right Leader Is "Big Deal", Similar to His Case
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's conviction and resulting prohibition from running in the 2027 presidential election was a "very big deal."
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Jailed Istanbul Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, Declared Opposition Presidential Candidate
Istanbul's embattled Ekrem Imamoglu was officially nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party for the 2028 elections.
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Explained: Turkey Tense As President's Main Rival Jailed, Protests Flare Up
Turkey is witnessing the worst street unrest in more than a decade following the arrest of Istanbul's embattled mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential opposition candidate in the upcoming Turkish presidential election against incumbent President Erdogan.
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"Immoral, Baseless": Istanbul Mayor As Thousands Protest His Arrest
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest -- for "terrorism" and "corruption" -- came just days before he was to have been formally named as the main opposition candidate in the 2028 presidential race.
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Mother Of Colombian Leader Shot In Head Was Kidnapped By Pablo Escobar
Diana Turbay was a journalist and was kidnapped in 1990 by a group working under drug lord Pablo Escobar. She died in a failed rescue attempt.
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Video: Colombian Presidential Candidate Shot In Head During Rally
A Colombian right-wing opposition senator and candidate to next year's presidential election was in intensive care Saturday after being shot during a campaign event in Bogota, authorities said.
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South Korean President Takes Over A Country Deeply Split By Gender Politics
Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea's snap presidential election with a clear lead. With all of the ballots counted, Lee won almost 50% of the vote, ahead of his conservative rival Kim Moon-soo on 41%.
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South Korea's Liberal Opposition Candidate Wins Presidential Election
South Korea's liberal party candidate, Lee Jae-myung, was elected president in Tuesday's snap election, six months to the day after he evaded military cordons to vote against a shock martial law decree imposed by his ousted predecessor.
-
Polish PM To Call For Vote Of Confidence In Government
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk will call for a parliamentary vote of confidence in his coalition government, after his candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, lost the presidential election on Sunday.
-
Right-Wing Karol Nawrocki Wins Poland Presidential Election
Polish nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki won the second round of the country's presidential election with 50.89% of the votes, the electoral commission said early on Monday, in a blow to the reform agenda of the pro-European government.
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South Korea's Presidential Candidate Lee Jae-myung Leads In Opinion Polls
South Korea's liberal frontrunner for president Lee Jae-myung was leading his main conservative rival Kim Moon-soo by more than 10 percentage points in an opinion poll issued on Tuesday, though the race had tightened a week ahead of the election.
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Elon Musk Says He'll Resume Working '24/7' at His Companies, X Outage Mostly Restored
Elon Musk's X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users in the US on Saturday. Musk has now decided that he is shifting his attention back to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.
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How Starbucks Is Keeping Politics Out Of Coffee In South Korea
This move is a response to the growing trend of customers using politicians' names as nicknames when ordering drinks, often accompanied by messages of support or opposition.
-
RFK Jr Slammed For Swimming In Sewage-Filled Rock Creek With Grandchildren
For a day out with grandchildren, the former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr chose Washington's Rock Creek, despite enormous evidence of its water being contaminated with harmful bacteria.
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South Korea's Conservatives Move To Switch Presidential Candidates
South Korea's conservatives dropped their presidential candidate on Saturday and reopened the nomination process, after the former prime minister decided to join the party to challenge the liberal frontrunner in an election just four weeks away.
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Trump Says Conviction Of France's Far Right Leader Is "Big Deal", Similar to His Case
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's conviction and resulting prohibition from running in the 2027 presidential election was a "very big deal."
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Jailed Istanbul Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, Declared Opposition Presidential Candidate
Istanbul's embattled Ekrem Imamoglu was officially nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party for the 2028 elections.
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Explained: Turkey Tense As President's Main Rival Jailed, Protests Flare Up
Turkey is witnessing the worst street unrest in more than a decade following the arrest of Istanbul's embattled mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential opposition candidate in the upcoming Turkish presidential election against incumbent President Erdogan.
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"Immoral, Baseless": Istanbul Mayor As Thousands Protest His Arrest
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest -- for "terrorism" and "corruption" -- came just days before he was to have been formally named as the main opposition candidate in the 2028 presidential race.
