Iceland elects Europe's first female majority parliament – but Katrín Jakobsdóttir's future as PM looks to be in doubt after her party lost several seats
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Stefan Löfven steps down as Sweden's prime minister after seven years – finance minister Magdalena Andersson widely tipped to be his successor as leader of Socialdemokraterna
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Sweden's Vänsterpartiet said it would seek to oust PM Stefan Löfven if the government didn't drop or change plans for the abolition of rent controls on new-build properties
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Samoa elected its first female leader. Parliament locked her out.
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‘Stories are chosen due to editorial merit’ and ‘newsworthy updates’ - BBC
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Mario Draghi forms new government in Italy, politicians and technocrats named as ministers
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Leading politicians in Finland have expressed outrage after former prime minister Juha Sipilä was assaulted outside the country's Parliament building
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Thai police crack down on protesters, PM refuses to resign
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Jacinda Ardern leads New Zealand Labour Party to historically high re-election, projected to win 49% of votes and 64/120 seats
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Ailing Abe quits as Japan PM as COVID-19 slams economy, key goals unmet
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Lebanon’s prime minister resigns in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut and the ensuing public outrage
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French PM Edouard Philippe resigns as President Macron plans new team
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australian organisations, including governments and businesses, are currently being targeted by a sophisticated foreign "state-based" hacker
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises for 'any hurt or harm' caused by robodebt scheme
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Boris Johnson says three million people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
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Boris Johnson's approval rating plunges twenty points in four days amid Dominic Cummings scandal
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New Zealand opposition leader ousted as PM Ardern's popularity soars
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has instructed civil servants to make plans to end UK's reliance on China for vital medical supplies and other strategic imports
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Boris Johnson leaves hospital, says 'things could have gone either way'
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Israel stunned as rivals Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz join forces in an "emergency government"
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of the Canadian Prime Minister, tests positive for COVID-19 coronavirus
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Norway's PM Erna Solberg named one of her top lieutenants to the key position of finance minister as her new minority government prepares to navigate a hostile parliament
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Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne resigned on Tuesday after a member of the ruling coalition said it had lost confidence in him following a series of disruptive strikes
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the European Union should be 'as flexible and positive as possible' in its negotiations over Brexit
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is open to a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence – should the visit be extended
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has announced that she will skip US Vice President Mike Pence's visit – opting instead to keep prior commitments
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Boris Johnson will be the UK's new prime minister
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Donald Trump says he called Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven to personally vouch for A$AP Rocky
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Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha declares end of five-year military rule
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Mette Frederiksen, Denmark's youngest prime minister, to lead new leftist government
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In the largest protests in decades, Czechs demand resignation of prime minister
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Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Hungary’s Orbán to lament their “growing Muslim populations”
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Denmark election: Social Democrats win as PM admits defeat
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Israel heads to new election after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form coalition
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Papua New Guinea prime minister quits after weeks of turmoil
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Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison secures seventy-six seats for majority
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied years of opinion polls and public expectation to lead the Coalition to a shock election victory
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Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister, dies aged 89
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Federal election: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison sets May 18 election date
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Brexit: Theresa May vows to stand down after deal is passed
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New Zealand prime minister on mosque shooter: “You will never hear me mention his name”
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Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes
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'Israel is the nation-state of Jews alone': Benjamin Netanyahu responds to TV star who said Arabs are equal citizens (Haaretz)
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Okinawa: Tokyo to overrule referendum on US base
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Profiles of a divided country - hostility to the prime minister’s Brexit deal is one thing that unites Britain
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Thai Princess Ubolratana Mahidol running to be Prime Minister against military candidate
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Brexit: MPs back May's bid to change deal. MPs have backed seeking "alternative arrangements" to replace the Irish backstop in Theresa May's Brexit plan
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