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Senegal elections: official results confirm run-off

Senegal is to hold a second round of presidential elections after incumbent Abdoulaye Wade failed to win outright, election officials confirmed late Wednesday.

Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld running for German presidency

Beate Klarsfeld, who spent decades fighting fascism and tracking down Nazis, will run against favorite Joachim Gauck in the race for the German presidency.

French presidential candidate Francois Hollande vows 75% tax rate

Hollande said the tax was “sending out a message of social cohesion,” adding that it was simply a case of “patriotism to accept to pay extra tax to get the country back on its feet again.”

New Israeli ambassador to Egypt takes office, solidifying ties

Yaacov Amitai replaces Yitzhak Levanon, who was evacuated from Cairo in September along with the rest of the mission’s staff and their families after rioters stormed the Israeli embassy following the shooting of an Egyptian policeman on the Israel/Egypt border.

Senegalese opposition leader says run-off vote 'inevitable’

With 10 percent of the ballots counted, Wade is estimated to have secured just 24 percent of the vote, with his nearest challenger out of a total of 13 candidates winning 21 percent.

Thousands form anti-Putin human chain around Moscow

Protesters braved freezing snowy weather and linked hands around the capital, bearing white balloons and flowers and wearing white scarves and ribbons to symbolize the biggest opposition demonstrations since Putin took power 12 years ago

Silvio Berlusconi bribery case thrown out

The case, which dates back to the 1990s, centers on allegations that the ex-premier, 75, paid his former British tax lawyer, David Mills, $600,000 to lie in court about Berlusconi’s business interests.

Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard set for showdown over leadership of Australia

“I want to finish the job the Australian people elected me to do when they elected me to become prime minister,” Rudd told reporters in Brisbane just hours after returning from the US.
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