PRAGUE -- The Czech Republic's opposition ANO party, led by former Prime Minister Andrej Babis, held a lead in the country's parliamentary election, which ended on Saturday as official results continued to be tallied.
Official results showed that, with over half of the voting districts counted, ANO had garnered 37.92 percent of the vote. (Czech-Republic-Politics)
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GAZA -- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group on Saturday backed Hamas's response to U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan for Gaza.
"The response provided by Hamas to the Trump plan expresses the position of the Palestinian resistance forces," Islamic Jihad said in a statement, adding that it had "responsibly participated in the consultations that led to this decision." (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)
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CARACAS -- A Latin American regional bloc of 10 member states on Friday condemned "the recent illegal incursion of U.S. combat aircraft" detected near the Venezuelan coast.
The incursion, detected only 75 km off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, has drawn criticism from Venezuela. (LatAm-US-Incursion)
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TOKYO -- Japan's former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi won Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election on Saturday, making her likely to become Japan's first female prime minister.
LDP parliamentarians cast 295 votes in the first round of voting, while another 295 votes were allotted to rank-and-file members. Takaichi, who took the lead with 183 votes in the first round, entered the runoff with Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who won 164 votes. (Japan-LDP-Election) Enditem
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