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14 Mar 2018

Angela Merkel elected for 4th term as German chancellor

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was Wednesday elected by parliament to her fourth and likely final term.

20 Nov 2017

German coalition talks collapse as pro-business FDP quits

With the Social Democratic Party already ruling out returning to a coalition with Merkel, and the veteran leader herself refusing a minority government, Germany would likely be forced to hold new elections.

03 Jul 2017

Angela Merkel overshadows party ahead of September election

Challenger Martin Schulz of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is leading his campaign with "more social justice", promising reforms to tax, unemployment benefits and childcare after having just succeeded with a push to legalise same-sex marriage.

28 Jun 2017

Tamil Nadu: Five injured in group clash in tiff over transporting cattle in Palani

Five persons were injured in a clash between two groups here on Wednesday over transporting cattle in a lorry, allegedly in violation of norms, police said.

25 Jun 2017

Martin Schulz hits out at 'arrogant' Angela Merkel

The SPD's call for gay marriage comes just a week after the Greens set a similar condition, while Merkel's CDU has so far refused to allow same gender couples to wed.

23 Jun 2017

German SPD wants gay marriage after September election

Germany`s Social Democratic Party (SPD) is making legalisation of gay marriage a condition for its participation in any coalition government after September`s national election, party Secretary General Hubertus Heil said.

21 Jun 2017

Cut Le Pen link if you want to join government, Austrian leader tells far right

Austria`s Chancellor Christian Kern said the Freedom Party (FPO) must leave the far-right faction in the European Parliament if it wants to enter a coalition government with his centre-left party.

14 May 2017

Merkel's party seeks key victory in bellwether state vote

But surveys ahead of the vote showed the centre-left party running neck-and-neck with Merkel`s Christian Democratic Union, with some even placing the CDU ahead.

11 Dec 2016

Amid concerns over corruption, Romanians begin vote for re-election in bicameral Parliament

Romania's biggest party, the Social Democratic Party, is expected to come first and will likely try to form a majority with smaller parties.

29 Mar 2016

Brazil`s Dilma Rousseff faces coalition collapse

Brazil`s largest political party, the PMDB, looks set to quit the government of leftist President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday.

04 Oct 2015

Portugal votes in test for austerity policies

Portugal voted on Sunday in an election seen as a test of four years of austerity, with the centre- right coalition that pushed through the punishing bailout seen as the favourite - but unlikely to win a clear mandate.

04 Oct 2015

Kyrgyzstan elects parliament with eye on Moscow

Kyrgyzstan went to the polls on Sunday for a hotly-contested parliamentary vote, but the results are unlikely to change the ex-Soviet country's firmly pro-Russian trajectory.

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