TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s Liberal Democratic Party has won 64 seats out of 150 in Uzbekistan’s parliament with 42.7% of the vote in Sunday’s election, the Central Election Commission said on Monday. The National Revival Democratic Party got 29 seats, Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party won 21 seats, People’s Democratic Party 20 seats, and the …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s new leader Prabowo Subianto wants to complete key government and parliamentary buildings in the country’s $32 billion new capital city in the next four years, according to a cabinet minister. The capital project, an initiative of former President Joko Widodo, seeks to move Indonesia’s seat of power about 1,200 km (745 …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai police patrolled the downtown streets over the weekend to crack down on Halloween celebrations in China’s most international city. Local authorities appeared to be trying to prevent a repeat of last year, when Halloween revellers thronged central Shanghai, with some dressed in costumes that poked fun of the Chinese stock market, youth …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its ruling coalition partner lost their majority in a general election on Sunday, throwing the make-up of the next government into flux. The LDP has governed for almost all of Japan’s postwar period, but here are examples of times it has lost power or needed to rely …
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s coalition looks set to lose its parliamentary majority, exit polls from Sunday’s general election suggest, meaning a possible scramble by parties to form a government. Following are the main players in any post-election jockeying for power: LDP Having ruled for almost all of Japan’s …
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By Sakura Murakami, John Geddie and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a drubbing at Sunday’s national election, raising uncertainty over the make-up of the next government and the outlook for the world’s fourth-largest economy. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan for almost …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese state-affiliated hackers intercepted audio from the phone calls of U.S. political figures including an unnamed campaign adviser of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on Friday they were investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by people …
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A high-level delegation from South Korea will brief the North Atlantic Council about North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia on Monday, NATO said on Sunday, after the U.S. expressed grave concern over the possible use of the troops against Ukraine. “Ambassadors from NATO’s Indo-Pacific partners – including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and …
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(Refiles to remove extraneous words in first paragraph) SEOUL (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of members of South Korea’s Christian groups held a service in Seoul on Sunday to protest against a landmark court ruling that acknowledged the rights of partners in same-sex couples to receive state health insurance. The supreme court in July upheld …
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TASHKENT (Reuters) -Uzbekistan votes in a parliamentary election on Sunday that, in the absence of opposition parties, is certain to produce a legislature loyal to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev despite constitutional reforms bringing some procedural changes. Mirziyoyev has run Central Asia’s most populous nation, since 2016, winning broad popularity through liberal economic reforms and an easing …
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