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Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir, leader of the Samfylking, Social Democratic party, right, celebrates with a supporter at the celebration party following the closure of the polling stations in Reykjavik, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Iceland’s centre-left Social Democratic Alliance became the biggest party in a snap election that unseated the ruling coalition of […]
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a media briefing at the Chancellery after sacking Finance Minister Christian Lindner following a meeting with the heads of the so-called “Traffic Light Coalition” of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (FDP), in Berlin, Germany, November 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Germany entered […]
Continue ReadingJapanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition lost a majority in the 465-seat lower house in a key parliamentary election on Sunday (October 27, 2024), a punishment by voters’ outrage over the governing party’s extensive financial scandals. Mr. Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party remains the top party in Japan’s parliament, and a change of government is […]
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Bjarni Benediktsson | Photo Credit: AFP Iceland’s three-party coalition government collapsed on Sunday over disagreements on policy issues, Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson said, with new elections to be held in November. Mr. Benediktsson, head of the conservative Independence Party, told presspersons that tensions had mounted within the left-right coalition on issues ranging from foreign policy […]
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