World Politics

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The other candidates

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Context

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Unsurprisingly utterly dominated by right-wingers.

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Well she is a very hard right person herself.

But you know what the right are like, just as with Macron in France, whatever the election results actually are, we will spin it to “we need to appease right wing extremists by lurching ever further to the right to make sure their, and only their, fee fees are adequately appeased”.

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[North Korea to discuss revising Constitution at key parliamentary meeting | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News]

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So Israel invented exploding pagers and somehow I doubt this will end up being the weirdest story of the week

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[Rise of BRICS Currency: Shift Away from Dollar as Default | Fortune Europe]

[Emerging economies are pushing to end the dollar’s dominance. But what’s the alternative? | AP News]

[US dollar’s dominance secure, BRICS see no progress on de-dollarization -report | Reuters]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/us-dollars-dominance-secure-brics-see-no-progress-de-dollarization-report-2024-06-25/

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Finns Party MP and party vice-president Mauri Peltokangas on social media. In it, Peltokangas lauded an Ostrobothnian retailer for the lack of ‘Mogadishu dialects’ to be heard there, and said he had seen no ‘camels or flying carpets’ in the car park.

The post was almost identical to one he had made before, and was prosecuted for incitement over. Prosecutors argued that his comments were intended to portray asylum seekers as backward, and denigrated their cultures.

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