‘You cannot survive’: Inflation bites as Thai election looms
Sheltering from rain near Bangkok's Grand Palace, scores of unemployed Thais queue alongside homeless people waiting for free meals as ...
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Sweden right wing poised for poll win
STOCKHOLM—Sweden’s right wing looked set to oust Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s left-wing bloc in Sunday’s general election on strong gains ...
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‘Reduce costs of SK, brgy. polls’
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) should find a way to cut the costs of ...
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TikTok girds for US election misinformation threat
TikTok on Wednesday rolled out its battle plan against the deluge of misinformation expected to accompany the upcoming US midterm ...
Read moreCool head in a rough region, Kenya faces test in election
In his final weeks as president, Uhuru Kenyatta has been busier than usual playing peacemaker in East Africa, thawing tensions ...
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Zubiri willing to postpone SK, brgy polls
Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri is willing to postpone for a year the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections scheduled this ...
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Comelec warns vs. stalling barangay polls
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday warned that postponement of the 2022 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections would ...
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No ‘transformation’ for UK’s Johnson despite vote drubbing
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday he would not undergo any "psychological transformation" despite this week's election drubbing and ...
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Trump pressure to flip election ‘upended’ lives, hearing told
By Frankie Taggart US state lawmakers and poll workers described Tuesday how their lives had been upended by threats of ...
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Jubilant Petro elected Colombia’s first leftist president
BOGOTA—Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first-ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.