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Political centrist Luis Guillermo Solis was elected president of Costa Rica in a runoff vote Sunday, becoming the first third-party candidate to win in decades.

• 07 апреля 2014, 13:37

Japan's parliament on Friday adopted a law on protecting state secrets despite a public outcry, with strong opposition from the media and academics who fear it will infringe on the right to information and free expression.

• 07 декабря 2013, 13:25

The White House warned Congress Tuesday that passing new sanctions on Iran -- even with a delayed launch date -- would give Tehran an excuse to undermine an interim nuclear deal.

• 04 декабря 2013, 16:41

The far-right Sweden Democrats party on Wednesday proposed forbidding foreigners from begging in the country under penalty of jail time or expulsion.

• 07 ноября 2013, 15:44

Voters in New York picked Bill de Blasio to be the city's first Democratic mayor in a generation, in one of a handful of elections seen as having considerable national importance.

• 06 ноября 2013, 12:35

A new political party was formed for the first time in Turkmenistan since the isolated ex-Soviet state won independence in 1991.

• 22 августа 2012, 11:11