The Kazakhstan president proposed to eliminate one of the two chambers. The country will hold a referendum on it in 2027.
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Kazakhstan to change its parliamentary system
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Video. Flash floods and landslides leave dozens dead or missing in Indonesia
Authorities said torrential rains since Monday caused rivers to overflow, sweeping mud, rocks and trees into neighbourhoods and triggering landslides. At least 112 neighbourhoods were flooded, with widespread damage reported across…
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Who’s leading Nepal after Oli resignation, what’s next for Gen Z protests? | Civil Rights News
Nepal’s military has taken over the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, in a bid to end two days of protests against corruption that rapidly escalated into a full-blown public revolt against the country’s political elite, culminating in Prime…
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Protesters block roads and set blazes in France amid police tear gas
PARIS (AP) — Protesters blocked roads, lit blazes and were met with volleys of tear gas on Wednesday in Paris and elsewhere in France, heaping pressure on President Emmanuel Macron and making new Prime…
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British swimmer Ross Edgley is first to swim around Iceland
British swimmer Ross Edgley on Tuesday became the first person to swim around the entire island of Iceland, completing a four-month challenge in freezing seas.
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EU proposes regional hub on Cyprus to better tackle wildfires, von der Leyen says
Cypriot officials proposed setting up such a hub on the Mediterranean island as early as 2022, with additional firefighting aircraft that could quickly respond to wildfires.
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‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption | Nepal
The whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each name is written their ages; 18, 22, 20, 18, 23. The list goes on.
By Wednesday morning there were still…
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