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The fake letter historians believe tipped a presidential election

Messenger-Inquirer 24 Jun 2018

Unbeknownst to the ambassador, "Murchison" was a non de plume used by George Osgoodby, a California political junkie who initially claimed all he wanted to do was prank the British ambassador ... Republicans seized on the correspondence to maximize its political impact ... But the uncertain provenance of the Murchison letter did little to reduce the political repercussions caused by the correspondence....

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Life in Gaza

Information Clearing House 24 Jun 2018

Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years....

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Kazakhstan detains dozens gathering for oppo rally

The News International 24 Jun 2018

Police detained dozens of opposition protesters in Kazakhstan’s largest city on Saturday after the exiled nemesis of long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev called for rallies across the country.An AFP correspondent saw a mixture of plainclothes police wearing black and officers in uniform detain at least 30 protesters, some of whom were ......

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Kazakhstan detains dozens gathering for opposition rally

The News International 24 Jun 2018

Police detained dozens of opposition protesters in Kazakhstan´s largest city on Saturday after the exiled nemesis of long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev called for rallies across the country.An AFP correspondent saw a mixture of plainclothes police wearing black and officers in uniform detain at least 30 protesters, some of whom were ......

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Extended edition: Face the Nation immigration focus group

CBS News 24 Jun 2018

CBS News Political Correspondent Ed O'Keefe sits down with a focus group of Arizona voters to see how immigration issues may impact their decisions in the November elections ... ....

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Battleground Tracker: How will immigration weigh on voters' minds in November?

CBS News 24 Jun 2018

CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto and CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe discuss the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll and what Arizona voters think of immigration ... ....

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Christians missing from parties’ priority lists for reserved seats

Dawn 24 Jun 2018

Major political parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have ignored Christians, the largest minority community in the province, in selection of their candidates for the reserved seats of national and provincial assemblies, as most of them preferred Hindus or Sikhs in their priority lists submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan....

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Turkey elections 2018: Erdoğan faces challenge from Ince – live updates

The Guardian 24 Jun 2018

The Guardian’s Istanbul correspondent, Kareem Shaheen, is at one of the polling stations in Kasimpasa, the Istanbul neighborhood where President Erdoğan grew up ... Erdogan is the longest-serving leader in modern Turkish political history pic.twitter.com/8Jh4wEGcjr June 24, 2018 ... an election – could find his political ambitions significantly curtailed....

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Turkey election: Erdogan seeks second term in hard-fought contest

BBC News 24 Jun 2018

"If Erdogan wins, your phones will continue to be listened to... By Mark Lowen, BBC Turkey Correspondent ... However, our correspondent says the country tends to vote along its big divides ... These include. ... If both elections go against the current president, Turkey's political landscape will change significantly. But if the presidency goes one way and parliament another, it could trigger a period of political instability in the years to come....

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Don't let corporations control our farms, by Sarah Wilton

The Keene Sentinel 24 Jun 2018

Bipartisan support among officials for both of these issues illustrates the fossil-fuel and agro-business influence over New Hampshire’s political process and state weaknesses in regulating corporations. Further, it reveals corporate and political elites’ inabilities to solve the apocalyptic socioeconomic and ecological crises that demand immediate action....

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The road from Singapore

Korea Times 24 Jun 2018

Despite the political afterglow of the meeting, the U.N ... political divide was very critical and decidedly uncomfortable with the intermixing of the flags of both the U.S ... Despite genuine political concerns and cumbersome details over the denuclearization process, the key success in Singapore was that the ticking nuclear countdown clock has now at least temporarily stopped....

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Zimbabwe President says he was 'inches' from Bulawayo explosion

Joy Online 24 Jun 2018

"People started running in all directions and then immediately the president's motorcade left at a very high speed," an AFP news agency correspondent at the scene reported ... "Political violence of any nature from any quarter is totally unacceptable," he said. "In the past 38 years political violence has been a permanent feature and an anticipated ritualwhich we must expunge."....

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No PML-N ticket for Hashmi

The News International 24 Jun 2018

MULTAN ... The PML-N has also issued ticket to Punjab Governor Malik Rafique Rajwana's son for the Punjab Assembly seat ... When the correspondent called Hashmi to know his version, his cell-phone was not responding ... One of close friends of Hashmi told The News that he fell victim to politics between Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif ... ....

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