Jacinda Ardern has postponed September’s election until October following new coronavirus cases.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuses President Donald Trump of a “campaign to sabotage the election”.
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State officials made “serious mistakes” in letting 2,650 ship passengers disembark, an inquiry found.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been an extraordinary outlier in the monumental change that has swept through the former Soviet Union — for 26 years, he’s remained the pre-eminent figure in his impoverished country. Meanwhile, aging central Asian dictators have died or stepped aside, Russian President Vladimir Putin has weathered …
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The agreement, signed in Warsaw, will see some US troops redeployed from Germany to Poland.
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