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Austrians vote with conservatives in lead

29 Sep 2019

Austrians vote Sunday in snap elections, in which the conservatives look set to triumph but will have difficulties finding a partner to govern after a corruption scandal brought down their...

Taliban cut off his finger for voting, he defied them again

29 Sep 2019

The Taliban cut off Safiullah Safi’s right forefinger for voting in 2014. That did not stop the businessman from doing it again. Safi’s act of defiance in Afghanistan’s 2019...

Taliban attacks, fraud charges mar Afghan presidential election

28 Sep 2019

Afghanistan's presidential polls closed on Saturday amid fears that accusations of fraud and misconduct could overwhelm any election results, while insurgent attacks aimed at disrupting voting in the country's north...

Taliban attack northern city to stop voting

28 Sep 2019

A provincial official in Afghanistan's north says insurgents firing mortars on the city of Kunduz are attempting to stop voting in national elections. Ghulam Rabani Rabani, a council member for...

Trudeau ‘deeply sorry’ for brownface photo taken at Arabian Nights-themed party

19 Sep 2019

Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign moved to contain a growing scandal on Thursday, following the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a 2001 costume party....

Israel’s Arabs poised to gain new voice after tight election

18 Sep 2019

Israel’s Arab coalition appears poised to emerge as the main opposition bloc following Tuesday’s election, a historic first that would grant a new platform to a long-marginalised minority. With...

Swearing as a campaign strategy has limitations

18 Sep 2019

Benjamin Bergen, Tribune News Service Politicians have a long history of swearing. Surreptitious recordings of the White House during the Johnson and Nixon administrations in the 1960s and...

Saied and Karoui to contest Tunisia presidential runoff vote

17 Sep 2019

Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Tuesday law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won the most votes in Sunday’s presidential election, beating veteran political leaders to advance...

Video: With over half Tunisian votes counted, law professor leads

16 Sep 2019

Political outsider Kais Saied was leading Tunisia's elections with just over a quarter of votes counted, the electoral commission said on Monday, in the country's second free presidential vote since...

UAE offers remarkable tolerance model

13 Sep 2019

At a time when the world is increasingly witnessing divisions between nations and peoples and an unbridled spike in hate speech and hate crimes, the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)...

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