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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Irish PM urged to call early election after surge in support at polls

        Ireland's prime minister Simon Harris was being urged Monday to call an early general election to capitalise on a surge in support for the government and a slump for the main opposition in European and local polls. An election has to be held by March next year and Harris, who succeeded Leo Varadkar in the top job in April, said on Sunday he intends to lead […]

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Bulgaria’s nuclear plant starts to replace Russian fuel

      Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant began to use atomic fuel produced by US group Westinghouse in one of its reactors Monday, in the latest effort to reduce its dependence on Russian energy. The state-owned Kozloduy plant on the Danube river supplies more than a third of the country's electricity and has so far relied on Russian fuel for its two operational Soviet-built 1,000-megawatt reactors. The oldest reactor […]

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Green parties suffer EU poll drubbing

      By Sam Reeves   Green parties suffered major losses in the EU elections, particularly in France and Germany, hit by growing discontent at the bloc's environmental push and by voters' shifting priorities. They had notched up their best ever results at the last European Parliament polls five years ago, which were accompanied by mass rallies over climate change. But the parties appeared to be the biggest losers […]

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Macron urges French to make ‘right choice’ in poll gamble

      By Alice Hackman and Stuart Williams   President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he was confident the French would make the "right choice" in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot. His surprise move came after mainstream centrist parties kept an overall majority in the European Parliament in Sunday's poll, but the far right notched up a string of […]

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Pakistan’s PM offers delayed congratulations to India’s Modi

          Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday offered a brief congratulations to his counterpart Narendra Modi on his re-election in rival India, almost a week after the results came in. Born out of the partition of British-ruled India in 1947, the neighbours have fought two wars over the disputed territory of Kashmir. "Felicitations to @narendramodi (Modi) on taking oath as the Prime Minister of India," […]

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Trump’s post-conviction windfall shows democracy is increasingly a pay-to-play game

        By Daniel Drache, York University, Canada and Marc D. Froese, Burman University     In the hours immediately following Donald Trump’s recent hush-money conviction in a Manhattan courtroom, his presidential campaign raked in US$53 million from small donors. Why are regular people without deep pockets throwing so much money at a convicted felon? In the United States today, as in many other countries with a populism […]

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EU parliament election sees shaken centre hold – but far right now has chances to show its strength

        By Amelia Hadfield, University of Surrey     After the four-day, 27-state democratic marathon that is the European parliamentary election, a picture has emerged of a fragile centre just holding amid a shift to the right that carries a significant potential to shape the near future of the EU, despite having fallen short of producing the earthquake some predicted. The big shock came in France, with […]

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Michael Mosley used science communication to advance health and wellbeing. We can learn a lot from his approach

        By Lauren Ball, The University of Queensland and Kirsten Adlard, The University of Queensland     Overnight, we learned of the tragic passing of Michael Mosley, who went missing last week while on holiday on the Greek island of Symi. The British celebrity doctor was a household name in many countries, including Australia. Mosley was well known for his television shows, documentaries, books and columns on […]

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