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Denmark's 'selfie' prime minister fights for second term Like the protagonist of Denmark's hit TV show "Borgen", Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is a pragmatic centrist who learned her political lines the hard way.

16 June 2015

Jeb Bush: 'I will run to win' Jeb Bush jumped headlong into the presidential race, insisting "America deserves better" after eight years of Barack Obama.

16 June 2015

Bush ready to jump into presidential campaign The campaign logo is ready, so is the big speech, and his message is taking shape: Jeb Bush is about to join the crowded Republican field running for president in 2016.

15 June 2015

Clinton to launch formal campaign with New York rally Hillary Clinton formally launches her bid to become America's first woman president, holding in New York her first big campaign rallyю

13 June 2015

Turkey PM says to seek coalition after majority loss Turkey's ruling party will talk to the opposition on forming a coalition government after it lost its overall parliamentary majority in legislative elections.

11 June 2015

Turkey's noisy Erdogan in uncharacteristic post-poll silence Turkey's usually highly loquacious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no spoken comment since his party lost its parliamentary majority.

10 June 2015

Jeb Bush announces June 15, Rick Perry all in for 2016 Jeb Bush appeared all but certain to launch his White House bid on June 15, as fellow Republican and former Texas governor Rick Perry plunged into a crowded presidential pool.

05 June 2015

Latvia elects Green party's Vejonis as president Latvia's parliament elected Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis as the Baltic state's new president, giving the 28th member of the European Union a Green party head of state.

04 June 2015

Republican-turned-Democrat Lincoln Chafee joins 2016 US race Lincoln Chafee, a former US senator and Rhode Island governor who was a longtime Republican before switching to the Democratic Party, launched his 2016 presidential campaign.

04 June 2015

Macedonia to hold polls in 2016 to end political crisis: EU Macedonian political leaders agreed to hold elections in early 2016 in order to overcome a deep political crisis, EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn said.

03 June 2015

Latvia to choose president in controversial 'black box' vote Latvia's parliament votes for a new president on Wednesday as the small Baltic NATO and eurozone member weighs security concerns amid heightened tensions with Soviet-era master Russia.

02 June 2015

Clinton's debut campaign rally set for June 13 in New York Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been a US presidential candidate for seven weeks, but her campaign officially launches June 13 with a rally on a New York City island.

02 June 2015

Counting begins in key polls testing Italian premier Renzi The centre-left party of Italian premier Matteo Renzi faced battles in regional elections, exit polls showed, after balloting which is also seen as a measure of the fading fortunes of ex-leader Silvio Berlusconi.

01 June 2015

Nazarbayev congratulates Duda on winning Polish presidential elections President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated the winner of the presidential elections in Poland Andrzej Duda.

31 May 2015

FIFA marathon man Blatter comes through a new storm A new election triumph in the midst of a corruption scandal established FIFA president Sepp Blatter as the politician who can come through any storm.

30 May 2015

O'Malley: Clinton foil or formidable Democrat contender? Maryland ex-governor Martin O'Malley is all but certain to unveil his White House campaign, amid debate about whether he is a viable contender or merely a foil for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

29 May 2015

Queen to outline Cameron's plans after poll win British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives unveil their programme for government after a surprise clear win at this month's general election.

27 May 2015

New Polish president may spell eurosceptics' return to power Polish voters have opted for change and chosen the conservative and relatively unknown lawyer Andrzej Duda as their next president, spelling a possible return to power of his eurosceptic mentor.

26 May 2015

Andrzej Duda: heir apparent to Poland's conservative Kaczynski twins Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old conservative MEP and lawyer who won Poland's cliffhanger presidential election on Sunday, has strong ties to the powerful Kaczynski twins.

25 May 2015

Ireland awaits count in historic gay marriage vote Ireland waited Saturday to learn the outcome of a historic referendum on same-sex marriage, with crowds of anxiously optimistic "Yes" supporters expected at Dublin Castle to hear the result.

23 May 2015

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