Nigeria’s president has gone home after lengthy medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, officials say, but his condition is unknown. Read More Nigerian president returns home
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s governing party candidate swept to an election victory Sunday night that will make her the first woman president in this Central American nation. Laura Chinchilla had 47 percent of the vote with nearly all the votes counted. The closest contender, Otton Solis of the Citizens Action Party, had [...]
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MONTEVIDEO, (AP) — A plain-talking former leftist guerrilla is heavily favored to win Uruguay’s presidential run-off election Sunday and keep the country’s popular center-left coalition in power for another five years. Jose Mujica’s opponents claimed he would transform the South American country into a radical socialist state, but he campaigned as a consensus builder, and [...]
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Polish president Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union’s reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document. Kaczynski, a eurosceptical conservative, signed the Lisbon Treaty at a ceremony in the presidential palace attended by senior EU officials,…
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