Icelanders will elect a new parliament Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced PM Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government
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Haiti’s presidential council fires prime minister, names businessman in controversial move
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Japan's government in flux after election gives no party majority
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Iceland on track for snap election as government falls – disagreements on issues including foreign policy and asylum seekers, says Bjarni Benediktsson
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Doctors have urged Finland's rightwing government to change “problematic and damaging” plans to ban undocumented people from accessing non-emergency healthcare
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Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand’s next PM, youngest ever
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to resign, paving way for new leader
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Bangladesh’s leader resigns and flees country after protests
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Tony Blair wants us to stop worrying and embrace AI
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Five killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota
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French government resigns, stays on for now in caretaker role
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Finland's PM Petteri Orpo urged parliament not to weaken a deportation bill that would allow Finnish border authorities to refuse to accept asylum applications in certain circumstances
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Danish government makes new pact with youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models
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Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran
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Haiti forms new government as gang violence persists
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Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen is said to have been left "shocked" after being struck by a man while walking in the centre of Copenhagen
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Iceland is voting to elect its seventh president on Saturday, with a tight race expected between three women
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches mandatory national service at eighteen
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces a 4th July general election
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Robert Fico: Slovakia’s prime minister in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times
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Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's domestically popular tough immigration stance could prove to be a weakness with European Social Democrat colleagues in the upcoming EU elections
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Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will be the country's next prime minister, replacing Katrín Jakobsdóttir who resigned from the post last week
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Icelandic PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir announced her resignation – said that she will run for president, a ceremonial post that is mostly above the daily political fray
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YouTube blocks access to CBC's The Fifth Estate story on killing of British Columbia Sikh activist at India's demand
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Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time
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Haiti’s leader to resign as gangs run rampant through country engulfed in crisis
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Sardinia elects leftwing president, in blow to Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
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Hungarian MPs have overwhelmingly ratified Sweden's bid to join NATO in a long-delayed vote which paves the way for the Nordic nation's membership
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Geert Wilders’ hopes of becoming Dutch PM dim after centrist party quits talks
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EU leaders approve €50 billion deal for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifts his veto
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Denmark's Frederik X becomes king after Queen Margrethe abdicates, with big crowds gathered in Copenhagen to witness history
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Israel’s Supreme Court overturns a key component of Benjamin Netanyahu’s polarizing judicial overhaul
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Falkland's sovereignty 'not up for discussion' UK leader warns after new Argentinian president vows to 'get them back'
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Centrist Donald Tusk is elected prime minister in Poland
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Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago
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Geert Wilders’ coalition negotiator steps down over alleged fraud
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Christopher Luxon sworn in as New Zealand prime minister, says priority is to improve economy
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Pedro Sánchez prepares for fraught second term as Spanish PM after Catalan amnesty
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Ex-leader David Cameron makes shock return to UK government as foreign secretary
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Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 8,000 opposition figures including party leader in a nationwide crackdown since officers broke up a major rally in the capital a week ago
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Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu appoints new head of subcommittee related to the West Bank - from the Religious Zionist Party
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Norway's foreign minister ousted after weapons-maker shares scandal – husband had been making financial deals that could have affected her ministerial duties
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India ‘weaponising global anti-terror fund’ to crack down on civil society groups, Amnesty says
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Witnesses and security camera footage viewed by The Washington Post reveal a more complex operation to kill Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian Sikh leader, than authorities have previously described
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'Shared intelligence' from Five Eyes informed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's India allegation: US ambassador
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Justin Trudeau claims Canadian authorities have intelligence Indian government was behind slaying of Canadian Sikh leader in British Columbia
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Norway's former prime minister Erna Solberg said she should have recused herself from several matters when in government due to her husband's trading activities
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Norway wealth tax pushes the rich to move to Switzerland – millionaire prime minister has embarked on a push to tax the wealthiest for social justice
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Sanna Marin joins Tony Blair Institute – former Finnish PM will advise political leaders in her new role
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Finnish government unveils new plan to try and shake off the stigma of racism that has marred the first months of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's right-wing coalition
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