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Singapore -
Startling number of Singaporeans choose to renounce their citizenship annually; reasons vary depending on individual, says Tan Wen Hui.
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Scott Walker cares about keeping his job, and he seems certain he will get recalled. Apparently his pastor father didn't teach him not to sue, because that is what Scott Walker is doing to make it harder to recall him.
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Madison -
Liberal advocacy group Moveon.org spearheaded rallies all over America on Saturday in support of protests staged by public employees in Wisconsin against the newly passed budget-cutting bill.
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The political battle to grant voting representation in Congress for Washington DC continues to rage on. This time, the Justice Department is being thrown into the mix. It could complicate things further.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday in a key case, Bartlett v. Strickland, in which they rejected the application of the Voting Rights Act in districts in which minorities make up at least half of the voting age population.
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The move to grant Washington D.C. full representation in the US House of Representatives has slowed down. It has turned into a fight between voting rights and gun rights.
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Being a resident of Washington, can easily be compared to being a sharecropper, forced to pay tribute to the landowner but having no rights in return. In this, a cruel joke is played daily on Americans living in our nation’s capital.
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South Africa's Constitutional Court reserved judgment on Wednesday in the case brought forward by seven parties to challenge sections of the Electoral Act barring the vast majority of South Africans working abroad from voting there.
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Washington D.C. is on the verge of getting full representation in the United House of Representatives by a vote of 61-37. However, there is an attached amendment to scrap most of the District’s local gun-control laws.
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The South African interim-government has appealed against the country's highest court 's ruling ordering it to provide voting facilities for all of the country's 2-million expats. The Constitutional Court still must ratify the ruling on March 4.
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France's far right looks west for new voters
The High Court in Malaysia rejects an attempt by citizens overseas to obtain voting rights by taking the Election Commission to court.
The European Court of Human Rights says individual governments can decide how to implement a ban on convicted prisoners voting.
French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande suggests that some leftists voted in the first round for the far right out of "social anger".
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen vows to cast a blank vote in Sunday's presidential run-off, in a further setback for President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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