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Estonian PM, majority party start coalition talks

Estonia’s center-right Reform Party started talks with two smaller parties Wednesday about forming a new liberal-minded coalition government. The party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas won the Baltic nation’s general election on Sunday with 31.2% of the vote. Kallas hosted a meeting of delegates from the Reform Party, the centrist …

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Egyptian authorities detain engineer over deadly train crash

Egyptian prosecutors Wednesday ordered the detention of an engineer pending an investigation into a train crash a day earlier that killed four people near Cairo. The passenger train slammed into a concrete barrier at a station in Qalyub city while traveling Tuesday to the Nile Delta city of Menouf, prosecutors …

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Turkish police tear gas protestors of Women’s Day march ban

Women in Turkey braved an official ban on an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, demonstrating for about two hours before police used tear gas to disperse remaining protesters and detained several people. Thousands converged on a central neighborhood Wednesday for a protest that combined women’s rights with the staggering …

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Brazil’s Lula uses Women’s Day to tout new spending plans

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced measures Wednesday seeking to promote and protect women after years of setbacks in their causes blamed in part on a rise in far-right forces. At a ceremony in the capital, Brasilia, Lula presented a package of over 25 measures, the most significant …

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