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Polls open in Belarus with Lukashenko’s 30-year rule set to be extended | Belarus newsthirst.

Belarusians began voting on Sunday, with president Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko – a 70-year-old former collective farm boss – has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994. Polls opened at 08:00 am (0500 GMT) in Minsk’s first presidential vote…

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Starmer doing a ‘very good job’ says Trump ahead of planned call between the two leaders | Trump administration newsthirst.

President Donald Trump has praised British prime minister Keir Starmer’s leadership, telling reporters on Saturday his UK counterpart has “done a very good job” and the two leaders have a planned call in the next 24 hours. The newly inaugurated US president told reporters on board Air Force One that he and Starmer “get along…

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‘They did not come to destroy’: Sussan Ley praises First Fleet and likens it to Elon Musk’s Mars mission | Elon Musk newsthirst.

Deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX seeking to reach Mars, in an Australia Day address. Her comments come a day after opposition leader Peter Dutton announced a newly created role of shadow minister for government efficiency – replicating Musk’s idea of a Department of…

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