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New Italy election law puts fragile opposition unity to the test
By Crispian Balmer ROME, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A new electoral law approved by Italy's parliament on Thursday was conceived by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition as a way to cement its grip on powe...
Oct 8, 2026
Genre-defying Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
By Simon Johnson, Marie Mannes and Justyna Pawlak STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson, whose work often blends verse, prose, dialogue and translation in a genre-defying m...
Oct 8, 2026
Cuban actors insist the show must go on despite blackouts
By Anett Rios and Alien Fernandez HAVANA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - When blackouts in an upscale neighborhood of Havana began approaching 24 hours a day, morale plummeted at one of the Cuban capital's many ni...
Oct 8, 2026
Factbox-Key points in Italy's new electoral law
ROME, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Italy's lower house of parliament on Thursday gave final approval to new voting rules ahead of a general election due next year, completing a reform championed by Prime Ministe...
Oct 8, 2026
Italy's Meloni forces through new electoral law ahead of vote, opposition cries foul
By Giuseppe Fonte ROME, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Italy's lower house of parliament gave final approval on Thursday to a fiercely contested electoral reform championed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni which p...
Oct 8, 2026
Analysis-As Munir's military takes on Gulf role, Pakistan's parliament is not involved
By Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Eleven years after Pakistan's parliament voted to keep the country out of a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in 2015, Islamabad has agreed to rapidly deploy...
Oct 8, 2026
Indian opposition protest police action against lawmakers, push for poll chief's resignation
By Praveen Paramasivam and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Indian opposition groups demonstrated for a third day on Thursday, protesting police action against Congress party leaders and ...
Oct 8, 2026
Latest suspect in RAF Fairford airbase plot released on bail
LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - British police said on Thursday a 22-year-old British man, the seventh person to be arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts as part of an investigation into a suspe...
Oct 8, 2026
Cilia Flores, wife of Venezuela's Maduro, to press for release from US jail
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Cilia Flores, the wife of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is expected to appear in a US court on Thursday to urge a federal judge to release her fr...
Oct 8, 2026
Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold
KYIV, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said on Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on civilians in th...
Oct 8, 2026
