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By ROD McGUIRK - Related Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians will go to the polls on Saturday following a six-week marketing campaign that has centered on pandemic-fueled inflation, local weather change and fears of a Chinese language army outpost being established lower than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) off Australia’s shore.Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition is in search of a uncommon fourth three-year ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Related Press ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Dr. Scott Jensen, a vaccine skeptic and former state senator, received the Minnesota GOP's endorsement on Saturday to problem Democratic Gov. Tim Walz within the November election, going excessive on the ninth poll with 65% of the vote.Jensen, who led on the primary two ballots, regained the lead on the seventh poll with 59%, ...

AP DENVER (AP) — On the final day of the 2022 session, Colorado’s Democratic-led Legislature scrambled Wednesday to go key payments to assault the fentanyl disaster and promote extra inexpensive housing after overcoming a stonewalling effort by Home minority Republicans that put dozens of payments in limbo earlier this week.Gov. Jared Polis and fellow Democrats had pledged firstly of the four-month session to sort ...

By JOHN LEICESTER - Related Press PARIS (AP) — From bucolic villages to buzzing cities, French voters had been choosing Sunday between two radically different sets of plans for the way forward for France, with President Emmanuel Macron providing continuity if he's reelected for a second time period and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen pledging seismic change for the nation and its outlook ...

By SCOTT BAUER - Related Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican district lawyer and candidate for lawyer normal on Tuesday filed a grievance with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers looking for the elimination of 5 members of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Fee.Fond du Lac County District Legal professional Eric Toney submitted a grievance with Evers asking him to take away two Republicans and three ...

By ROD McGUIRK - Related Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has known as for a Might 21 election that shall be fought on points together with Chinese language financial coercion, local weather change and the COVID-19 pandemic.Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday suggested Governor-Normal David Hurley as consultant of Australia’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, to set the election date.Morrison’s ...

AP ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan residents voted Saturday in an election that might mark the start of a political dynasty for the gas-rich Central Asian nation's sitting president.President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, 64, introduced the vote final month, setting stage for his 40-year outdated son Serdar to take over. Preliminary outcomes are anticipated Sunday, however few doubt that the president's son will win by landslide.Serdar ...

AP ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan residents voted Saturday in an election that would mark the start of a political dynasty for the gas-rich Central Asian nation's sitting president.President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, 64, introduced the vote final month, setting stage for his 40-year outdated son Serdar to take over. Preliminary outcomes are anticipated Sunday, however few doubt that the president's son will win by landslide.Serdar ...

AP ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan residents are voting Saturday in an election that might mark the start of a political dynasty for the gas-rich Central Asian nation's sitting president.President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, 64, introduced the vote final month, setting stage for his 40-year previous son Serdar to take over.Serdar Berdymukhamedov has risen by a sequence of more and more distinguished authorities posts and most ...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Related Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative former high prosecutor and overseas coverage neophyte, was elected South Korea’s president in a win anticipated to herald a drive to hunt a stronger alliance with the US and take a harder line on North Korea.With over 99% of the votes counted early Thursday, Yoon ...