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Kurdish PKK disbands and ends insurgency against Turkish state
12 May 2025
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New Pope, new Chancellor, same old Trump
12 May 2025
The Catholic Church has a new leader. Robert Prevost was not discussed by the media before being announced as the new Pope on Friday. He will follow the Church’s mantra, that has served it well over two thousand years, to be as flexible as necessary and as rigid as possible Europe has fresh energy in the person of the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Despite the wobbly start in the German Parliament, Merz in the four days after his swearing-in met key European leaders, and laid the basis for his Chancellorship. Meanwhile, Donald Trump statements continue to hanker for the past. His call for the re-opening of the prison on Alcatraz is a case in point. Trump marks the end of the “American era”. The US will remain a rich and powerful country, but its global role will be much diminished.
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German parties seal coalition deal and are set to form a new government
24 November 2021
Three German parties are this morning putting the finishing touches to a coalition deal that will see the SPD's Olaf Scholz taking over as the new Chancellor in early December. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), who won the September 26 elections and will team up with the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) to form a three-party government.
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Libyan elections: key figures announce bid for presidency
17 November 2021
Key figures, from both Libya’s past and present including leaders of some of the current political parties, announced their bid for the Libyan presidency. Saif al-Islam and Khalifa Haftar are among the major candidates while current PM Dbeibah is yet to announce.
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Kuwait's Emir accepts PM's resignation
14 November 2021
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah accepted on Sunday (14 November) the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah The Emir asked the cabinet to stay as a caretaker government until a new cabinet is formed.
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Mirziyoyev outlines seven-point strategy for future of Uzbekistan at swearing-in ceremony
7 November 2021
Mirziyoyev used the occasion to unveil a seven point strategy for the future of Uzbekistan which encompasses many points he had made during his election campaign, and also re-enforces the policy of reforms that he initiated when he became president in 2016.