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New DUP leader calls for unity in fight for Brexit protocol

Bloomberg Edwin Poots, the newly elected leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), called on his supporters to fight against a Brexit deal that has angered unionists and given fresh impetus to calls for a united Ireland. Poots’s victory over rival Jeffrey Donaldson by 19 votes to 17 comes ahead of an expected summer of heightened tension in Northern ...

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Chile votes for ‘who will rewrite constitution after mass unrest’

Bloomberg Chileans were heading to the polls in an unprecedented election to decide who would write the new constitution following a period of mass unrest, a vote that will shape the future of one of Latin America’s richest nations. Citizens will select the 155 members of the Constitutional Assembly that will draft a new charter over a year. Elections will ...

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Court sinks bid for biggest Kenyan politics overhaul in a decade

Bloomberg Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ambitions of reshaping the nation’s political system as his final term draws to a close were dealt a body blow by a court ruling that he acted illegally in initiating the reforms. The High Court’s declaration may derail a planned referendum on sweeping proposals championed by Kenyatta and one-time foe and opposition leader Raila Odinga ...

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