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General elections will be conducted in Bangladesh on January 7, 2024. The country has emerged as one of the rapidly developing economies in the region under the incumbent Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. She has inaugurated numerous new projects including the Bangabandhu tunnel, the new elevated Dhaka expressway, the 2400 MW Rooppur nuclear power plant, Terminal 3 of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), Khulna-Mongla Port Railway line, the Akhaura-Agartala broad-gauge line, Unit 2 of the Maitri Power plant, and MRT Line 6. The rationale behind the…

The head of the National Elections Authority (NEA), Judge Hazem Badawy, announced that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was re-elected to a new six-year term with 89.6 percent of the vote in a landslide election victory. He said turnout was 66.8 percent of more than 67.3 million registered voters and President El-Sisi received 39,702,451 valid votes. The runner-up, Hazem Omar, received 1,986,352 votes, representing 4.5 percent of the valid ballots recorded by the authority. Farid Zahran finished third with 1,776,952 or 4 percent of the votes. Abdel-Sanad Yamama came fourth with 822,606 votes, or 1.9 percent, Badawy said…

More and more Israeli newspapers are printing articles accusing Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of failing to ensure the security of Israel and its people. Israel’s main opposition leader, Yair Lapid, regularly makes headlines with his harsh criticism. In calling for the resignation of Israel’s prime minister over the colossal intelligence failure of 7 October, Yair Lapid echoed the growing mood of right-wing extremist discontent among the Israeli population and even within his own government over the actions of the current president. “One who failed in this way cannot continue his activities…