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Maduro wins as rivals call for new Venezuela elections

President Nicolas Maduro was unsurprisingly declared winner of Venezuela's election Sunday in a poll rejected as invalid by his rivals, who immediately called for fresh elections to be held later this year. Reeling under a devastating economic crisis, only 46 percent of voters turned out to cast ballots in an election boycotted by the opposition [...]

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Mexican rivals attack leftist in second debate, Trump hovers over exchanges

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The chasing pack of Mexican presidential candidates attacked front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a second televised debate on Sunday without landing major blows in exchanges that often returned to fraught relations with the United States. Source: Reuters World News

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Thai police declare no-go zones for anti-junta march

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police declared Bangkok's Government House and surrounding streets a no-go zone for Tuesday's planned opposition march marking four years since a May 22, 2014, coup, warning protesters not to defy a junta ban on public gatherings. Source: Reuters World News

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Venezuela's Maduro re-elected amid outcry over vote

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship. Source: Reuters World News

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Philippines expresses 'serious concern' over Chinese bombers in disputed South China Sea

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines expressed "serious concerns" over the presence of China's strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its foreign ministry has taken "appropriate diplomatic action", the spokesman of President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday Source: Reuters World News

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Venezuela's re-elected Maduro faces foreign backlash

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolas Maduro faced fresh international censure on Monday after re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation. Source: Reuters World News

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Abuses pushed Malaysia's debt over 1 trillion ringgit says Mahathir

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is saddled with over 1 trillion ringgit ($251.70 billion) in debt, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday, blaming the previous government led by former protege Najib Razak who now faces domestic graft investigations. Source: Reuters World News

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