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Putin's, Xi's ruler-for-life moves pose challenges to West
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping have established themselves as the world’s most powerful authoritarian leaders in decades. Now it looks like they want to hang on to those roles indefinitely. Putin's sudden announcement this week of constitutional changes that...
Putin fast-tracks effort to extend his rule in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024 while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister. Speaking to a working group created to draft constitutional changes, Putin cast...
Right-wing parties in Israel unite, rejecting fringe list
JERUSALEM (AP) — Religious-nationalist parties in Israel joined forces late Wednesday ahead of the country's unprecedented third straight election in one year. The parties came together after weeks of jockeying and shut out the fringe Jewish Power party which said it would run independently. It did so in...
German lawmaker's office window riddled with bullet holes
BERLIN (AP) — A black German lawmaker said Wednesday that bullet holes were found in the window of his constituency office in the eastern city of Halle. Karamba Diaby said on Facebook that police are investigating. The Senegal-born chemist became one of Germany's first black lawmakers in when he and...
Iran disqualifies thousands from running for parliament
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s constitutional watchdog has barred thousands of people from running in next month's parliamentary elections, including 90 current lawmakers, most of whom are accused of corruption. The Guardian Council, a body of senior clerics and legal experts, vets candidates for office...
Emboldened Catalan leader Puigdemont mulling visit to Spain
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is considering going back to Spain if he gets assurances that he is immune from arrest through his new status as a European legislator. After his first plenary session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, he told The Associated...
Israel's weakened left-wing unites ahead of March election
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's main left-wing parties have announced they will run on a single ticket in the upcoming March 2 election. Both Labor and Meretz had been polling dangerously close to the electoral threshold and were under intense pressure to unite into a single bloc so as not to lose valuable...
Leader of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia resigns
MOSCOW (AP) — Legislators in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Monday accepted the resignation of the region's leader, who stepped down under pressure from the opposition. Opposition protesters seized the presidential office last week and demanded Raul Khadzhimba's resignation over alleged...
Lawmakers vote down Tunisia's new government amid opposition
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian lawmakers voted down the North African country's new government Friday, declaring no confidence in a Cabinet proposed by the moderate Islamist party that has the most parliament seats. The vote promises more political deadlock in Tunisia, after three months of trying to put...
Polish Senate speaker pushes back against bribe allegations
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A prominent transplant surgeon who serves as speaker of Poland's Senate defended himself from allegations that he took bribes from patients, claims that appeared in state-controlled media and which the doctor-politician's supporters said were an attempt to discredit a government...
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