Thursday, 15 December 2016 ALMATY – Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s Democratic Party has nominated him as a candidate in the February 2017 election. He is widely expected to secure a third term in office. Berdymukhamedov has run the gas-rich nation of 5 million people since 2006, succeeding president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov …
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Monday, 17 July 2017 ROME – Italy’s government will not try to push through a law that would grant citizenship to the children of immigrants in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Sunday. The draft law faced opposition from politicians including members of a small centrist …
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