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Stabbed Brazil election front-runner leaves intensive care: hospital
Brazil's far-right presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro was released from intensive care Sunday after undergoing surgery for complications from a stab wound he suffered while campaigning. The candidate, who had surgery to remove an intestinal blockage on Wednesday, has been moved to a "semi-intensive care unit," ...
Iraqis pick parliament speaker, opening way to new government four months after election
Amid escalating political wrangling, Iraqi lawmakers elected an Iran-backed Sunni Arab as speaker of parliament on Saturday, the first step in forming a new government four months after national elections. The 37-year old speaker was supported by the pro-Iran bloc inside parliament, the Building coalition, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a 20-point lead over former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election next week, a Kyodo News poll showed Saturday. Abe, who is seeking another three-year term in the Sept. 20 leadership election, was ...
LDP election rivals Abe and Ishiba campaign on disaster resilience during visit to Kyoto
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba focused on the importance of building resilience to disasters as they campaigned in Kyoto on Saturday, dueling on the last weekend before the ruling party selects its leader for the next three years. It was ...
Taiwan's midterm elections, biggest ever, key test for ruling, opposition parties
In November, Taiwan will hold its largest election ever, with about 19 million voters, or 83 percent of the population, casting ballots for more than 11,000 officials, including the mayors of Taipei and five other special municipal districts. In addition to mayors of the six ...
U.S. base issue in focus as campaigning begins for Okinawa governor race
The post was left vacant by the death last month of Takeshi Onaga, a staunch opponent of the plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within the prefecture.
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U.S. base relocation top issue in Okinawa gubernatorial election
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's death last month at age 67 from pancreatic cancer came just over three months before the originally scheduled gubernatorial election and just days after he announced the prefectural government would take steps toward retracting permission for landfill work related to ...
Jailed Lula to bow out of Brazil's presidential race: sources
Jailed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will throw in the towel Tuesday in his legal battle to run in the Oct. 7 election and allow his Workers Party to announce running mate Fernando Haddad as its candidate, party sources said. Lula had ...
Sweden faces political impasse after far-right election gains
Sweden faces a political impasse after its mainstream center-left and center-right blocs virtually tied in an election Sunday, while the far-right — which neither wants to deal with — made gains on a hard-line anti-immigration platform. With nearly all votes counted Monday, the ruling center-left ...
LDP contenders Abe, Ishiba joust over policy in first pre-election face-off
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe repeated on Monday that he wants to revise war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of Japan's military if re-elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 20. Abe's proclamation set him apart from his ...
Fate of U.S. base remains unresolved after Okinawa assembly elections
Voters in 25 Okinawan cities, towns and villages went to the polls Sunday to elect assembly members ahead of the Sept. 30 gubernatorial race, including the closely watched match in Nago, where the results failed to deliver a clear verdict on a controversial U.S. ...
