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Parliamentary elections kick off in Croatia

STORY: Parliamentary elections kick off in Croatia SHOOTING TIME: April 17, 2024 DATELINE: April 17, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Zagreb CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of billboard of the Croatian Democratic Union and Croatian Social Democratic Party 2. various of Croatian President Zoran Milanovic casting ballot 3. various of Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic casting ballot STORYLINE: Parliamentary elections in Croatia kicked off on Wednesday morning, with 2,302 candidates from 59 political parties and independent candidates competing for 151 seats in the parliament. According to the State Election Commission, over 3.73 million registered voters, both locally and overseas, are registered in Croatia this year. The first results are expected to be announced on Wednesday evening. The top two parties are the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, headed by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, and the alliance of parties led by the center-left Croatian Social Democratic Party. However

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CROATIA-ZAGREB-PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

(240417) -- ZAGREB, April 17, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Croatian President Zoran Milanovic casts his vote at a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia on April 17, 2024. Parliamentary elections in Croatia kicked off on Wednesday morning, with 2,302 candidates from 59 political parties and independent candidates competing for 151 seats in the parliament. (Matija Habljak/PIXSELL via Xinhua)

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CROATIA-ZAGREB-PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

(240417) -- ZAGREB, April 17, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic casts his vote at a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia on April 17, 2024. Parliamentary elections in Croatia kicked off on Wednesday morning, with 2,302 candidates from 59 political parties and independent candidates competing for 151 seats in the parliament. (Goran Stanzl/PIXSELL via Xinhua)

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CROATIA-ZAGREB-PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

(240417) -- ZAGREB, April 17, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia on April 17, 2024. Parliamentary elections in Croatia kicked off on Wednesday morning, with 2,302 candidates from 59 political parties and independent candidates competing for 151 seats in the parliament. (Slavko Midzor/PIXSELL via Xinhua)

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Pakistan's major parties agree to form coalition gov't

STORY: Pakistan's major parties agree to form coalition gov't SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 21, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of joint press conference 2. various of National Assembly of Pakistan STORYLINE: Pakistan's two major political parties, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), agreed to form a coalition government in center, leaders of the two parties said Tuesday night. "Both the parties have agreed on a power-sharing formula as we have the required number of seats in the National Assembly (NA) to form the government," PML-N president and former prime minister Shahbaz Sharif said during a joint press conference in Islamabad. Following days of negotiations between the two parties, it has been decided that Sharif will be the joint candidate for both parties for the slot of prime minister and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari will be the joint candidate for the president's slot. Sharif said that

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Voting begins for Pakistan's general elections

STORY: Voting begins for Pakistan's general elections SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 8, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2024 LENGTH: 0:03:41 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ALI JASWAL, Xinhua reporter 2. various shots of polling stations in Islamabad STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ALI JASWAL, Xinhua reporter "Polling for Pakistan's one-day general elections started all across the country right now Thursday morning. It has just started at 8 a.m. local time and according to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the voting process would continue uninterrupted till 5:00 p.m. local time. Polling for the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies are being held on the same day. According to the ECP, over 128 million Pakistani people, or more than half of the country's total population, are eligible to vote in the general elections. ECP announced that over 5,000 candidates would contest the 265 general seats in the National Assembly and over 12,000 candidates would be competing for the 59

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JR East sightseeing train Hinabi debuts in northeastern Japan

A ceremony marking the debut of East Japan Railway Co. sightseeing train Hinabi is held at JR Morioka Station in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 23, 2023. The two-car train with a total of 59 seats will initially run between Morioka and Kamaishi, also in Iwate Prefecture, mainly on weekends, with service planned to extend into the neighboring Aomori Prefecture in the future.

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JR East sightseeing train Hinabi debuts in northeastern Japan

A ceremony marking the debut of East Japan Railway Co. sightseeing train Hinabi is held at JR Morioka Station in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 23, 2023. The two-car train with a total of 59 seats will initially run between Morioka and Kamaishi, also in Iwate Prefecture, mainly on weekends, with service planned to extend into the neighboring Aomori Prefecture in the future.

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Bulgarians vote for local authorities

STORY: Bulgarians vote for local authorities DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:59 LOCATION: Sofia CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of polling stations 2. various of voters STORYLINE: Bulgarians went to polls on Sunday to elect mayors and municipal councilors. As many as 12,299 polling stations opened across the country at 7:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) for over six million eligible voters to cast their ballots. The elections are held every four years. In this year's elections, almost 39,000 candidates are competing for the posts of mayors of the 265 municipalities and 3,041 mayoralties in Bulgaria, and the 35 quarters in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, as well as 5,053 seats in the municipal councils. A candidate for mayor must gain more than half of the valid votes to win the position in the first round. If no one gains more than 50 percent of votes in the first round, the top two runners will compete in a run-off on Nov. 5. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sofia. (XHTV

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Lebanon's Hezbollah, allies lose majority in parliamentary elections

STORY: Lebanon's Hezbollah, allies lose majority in parliamentary elections DATELINE: May 18, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:49 LOCATION: Beirut CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi holding a press conference to announce results of parliamentary elections STORYLINE: Lebanon's Interior Ministry on Tuesday announced the final results of the 2022 parliamentary elections, which showed the loss of majority in the parliament by Hezbollah and its allies. Hezbollah and its allies secured 59 seats, down from 71 in the previous elections in 2018, which are fewer than the 65 seats needed to secure a majority in the 128-seat parliament. The Free Patriotic Movement, a major Hezbollah ally, is no longer the largest Christian parliamentary bloc in the country as it won 18 seats compared to its rival the Lebanese Forces, which won 20 seats. Moreover, Hezbollah lost key allies including Druze leader Talal Arslan and Sunni leader Faysal Karame in Tripoli. The results published by the Ministry o