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http://ift.tt/2sCMxl6 Assistant electoral officer for the North Antrim and Mid Ulster constituency, Mandy Hassan, poses for a photograph with a ballot box bound for Rathlin Island, off the north east coast of Northern Ireland, on June 7, 2017, as she arrives to deliver it onto the ferry that will take it to its destination, for the island’s population of around 100 people to cast their votes into during the June 8 general election. Britain on Wednesday headed into the final day of campaigning for a general election darkened and dominated by jihadist attacks in two cities, leaving forecasters struggling to predict an outcome on polling day. / AFP PHOTO / Paul FAITH Britain on Wednesday headed into the final day of campaigning for a general election darkened and dominated by jihadist attacks in two cities, leaving forecasters struggling to predict an outcome on polling day. Police announced that a 30-year-old man had been arrested in east London following the attack in the capital o...

http://ift.tt/2sCMxl6 Assistant electoral officer for the North Antrim and Mid Ulster constituency, Mandy Hassan, poses for a photograph with a ballot box bound for Rathlin Island, off the north east coast of Northern Ireland, on June 7, 2017, as she arrives to deliver it onto the ferry that will take it to its destination, for the island's population of around 100 people to cast their votes into during the June 8 general election. Britain on Wednesday headed into the final day of campaigning for a general election darkened and dominated by jihadist attacks in two cities, leaving forecasters struggling to predict an outcome on polling day. / AFP PHOTO / Paul FAITH Britain on Wednesday headed into the final day of campaigning for a general election darkened and dominated by jihadist attacks in two cities, leaving forecasters struggling to predict an outcome on polling day. Police announced that a 30-year-old man had been arrested in east London following the attack in the capit...

http://ift.tt/2rBTkLw Lagos state chairman of AD, Mr Kola Ajayi The Alliance for Democracy (AD) on Saturday said it was confident of a good showing in the July 22 council poll in Lagos. The state chairman of the party, Mr Kola Ajayi disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that the party was stepping up preparations for the election and it was sure of causing upsets in some area councils. Ajayi described the AD as a popular party in the state, saying the party was strong and loved by Lagos people. “You see what some people don’t know is that our party is a strong party, and because they don’t know they tend to underrate us. “We will use the forthcoming council elections in the state to prove a point that we are not pushovers, we are a big project and we are contesting to win. “We are strong in almost all parts of the state and we will cause upsets and win some areas because we are a loved party,” he said. Ajayi said that the...

http://ift.tt/2qE9OTc (FILES) This file photo taken on February 5, 2016 shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media holding a printed report of the judgement of the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on his case from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London. Swedish prosecutors investigating rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must decide on May 19, 2017 if they will lift a European-wide arrest warrant against him in a seven-year case. / AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL Swedish prosecutors Friday dropped a seven-year rape investigation into Julian Assange, a legal victory for the WikiLeaks founder who has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since 2012. “Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, has today decided to discontinue the investigation regarding suspected rape by Julian Assange,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Friday was the deadline for the public prosecutor’s office to either renew or ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) on Monday ruled out the possibility of entering a grand coalition with their centre-left rivals in Schleswig-Holstein, one day after beating the Social Democrats (SPD) in the northern German state. Daniel Guenther, the CDU candidate in the strongly Protestant state, said that after such a crushing defeat, the SPD cannot be part of any future coalition because it would send the wrong signal to voters. Merkel’s CDU won 32.0 per cent of the vote, while the SPD which currently governs the state in a coalition with the Greens and Der Südschleswigsche Wählerverband., a regional party that represents the Danish and Frisian minorities, won just 27.2 per cent of the vote. It is a strategically important win for Merkel, who is running for a fourth term in office in September’s general election. The post Merkel’s party says it won’t partner with SPD after state victory appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Van...