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March 17, 2019
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2019-03-17
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Disasters and accidents
2019 Jayapura flood and landslide
At least 73 people have been killed in flash floods in the province of
Papua
,
Indonesia
.
(BBC News)
President of
Mozambique
Filipe Nyusi
suggests the death toll of
Cyclone Idai
could reach over one thousand. The current official toll stands at 84.
(BBC News)
Politics and elections
2019 Slovak presidential election
Progressive Slovakia
candidate
Zuzana Čaputová
, who ran on an
anti-corruption
campaign against the backdrop of
Ján Kuciak's murder
, wins the first round of
Slovakia's presidential election
with 40.5% of the vote while the ruling
Direction – Social Democracy Party
's candidate
Maroš Šefčovič
receives 18.6% of the vote. As no candidate reached 50%+1 votes in the first round, Čaputová and Šefčovič will take part in a second round on March 30, 2019. The ruling Direction – Social Democracy Party suffers its worst result since its founding in 1999.
(Reuters)
(
The Guardian
)
(BBC News)
(Slovakia's Election Commission)
2020 United States presidential election
,
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Kirsten Gillibrand 2020 presidential campaign
U.S. Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand
of
New York
formally announces she is officially running for the
Democratic Party
's nomination for
President of the United States
in the 2020 election.
(
The New York Times
)
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