Thomson Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) party moved swiftly on Friday to deny it planned to dissolve its decades-old alliance with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, after a report to that effect appeared on a hoax Twitter account. Hans Michelbach, deputy head of the CSU faction in the federal parliament, said […]
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Japan parliament dissolved, snap election expected next month
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house was dissolved on Thursday ahead of an expected snap Oct. 22 election being called by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as he seeks to confirm his mandate in the face a rising challenge from a popular new conservative party. Abe, a conservative who returned to power in 2012, […]
