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Mexican candidate assassinations hit grim record ahead of Sunday’s election
By Lizbeth DiazMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered...
Voting begins in the last round of India’s election, a referendum on Modi’s decade in power
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade...
We have no Plan B if Ukraine falls, says Estonia
Estonia considers itself a front-line state, a Nato member where its border guards stare across the Narva River at the Russian fortress of Ivangorod.This tiny Baltic state, once a...
Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before
COTIJA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000...
ANC looks set to share power after historic election loss
With most of the results now in from South Africa's election, the long-ruling African National Congress (ANC), will have to contend with sharing power after a historic loss of...
Russia declares a former presidential hopeful and others as ‘foreign agents’ as it presses crackdown
The Russian authorities on Friday declared a former presidential hopeful, a prominent human rights advocate and several others to be “foreign agents,” the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown...
Kiev, Moscow exchange fire and prisoners as Zelensky signs new pacts
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners for the first time in months on Friday, but any hopes of de-escalation in the war were dashed by attacks from both sides and...
Incendiary device thrown at front doors of Vancouver synagogue, says Jewish federation
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver said Friday an “incendiary device” was thrown at the front doors of a synagogue in what Canadian Prime...
India’s GDP tops 8% as mammoth election wraps up
Insights from The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and India Development ReviewThe NewsIndia’s GDP grew by 8.2% in the fiscal year that ended in March, according to data published Friday,...
Pakistan with help from Interpol arrest a Pakistani woman convicted of murder in Italy, police say
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police working closely with Interpol have raided a home in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and arrested a Pakistani woman convicted in Italy of...
