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Alliance will stay but keep the pressure on BJP, Naidu tells his men

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Although TDP cadres have been putting pressure on the party leaders to ask TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu to come out of the alliance over denial of special status, the chief minister has reportedly told the party members to maintain status quo on the issue. However, at the same time, the chief minister wants the party cadre to keep up the pressure on its alliance partner....

Cong may be DMK's Achilles' heel

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
The DMK-Congress alliance may yield dividends for the Dravidian party in some pockets, but the national party is nowhere near making a mark ... In fact, the seats given to the alliance partners are turning out to be the weak spots for the DMK. In the absence of any perceivable wave in the election so far, DMK's chances of wresting power now hinges on its alliance partners' performance....

Assembly election count enters final stretch

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 May 2016
The DUP had 37, Sinn Fein 22, the Ulster Unionists 15, the SDLP 11, Alliance seven, People Before Profit Alliance two, Green Party two and Traditional Unionist Voice one. Alliance is also set to return to the Assembly with the same number of seats it had last time round - eight ... Alliance leader David Ford has said he was happy with his party's performance ... Mr Ford denied that Alliance has stalled in 2016....

Japan Ambassador Takes Veiled Swipe at Trump's 'America First' Stance

Edit Voa News 07 May 2016
presidential election debate Friday by arguing against the "America first" stance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and stressing the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Without mentioning Trump by name, Kenichiro Sasae told a Washington forum that Japan had come up unexpectedly in the election debate, showing that nothing could be taken for granted in terms of the long-standing U.S.-Japan alliance....

Belfast East: Former soldier Andy Allen wins UUP’s only seat in Belfast

Edit The Irish Times 07 May 2016
NI Assembly. Strong showing by DUP as halfway stage passed Results Hub ... Following Ms Bunting in on the first round of votes was high-profile Alliance party deputy leader Naomi Long ... “Today has been a good day in east Belfast for Alliance. There are no easy votes for Alliance – they are all hard fought and won.” ... Sammy Douglas and Robin Newton took two more seats for the DUP, with Alliance’s Chris Lyttle also securing an Assembly return ... ....

TN polls: Rahul Gandhi to share dais with Stalin in Madurai

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Ahead of Tamil Nadu assembly elections, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will hold a public rally on Saturday to campaign for candidates of the DMK-Congress alliance ... The DMK had walked out of the UPA alliance in 2013, after joining ......

Belfast East: Joanne Bunting and Naomi Long elected

Edit The Irish Times 07 May 2016
So far only two of the six seats have been filled - by Joanne Bunting (DUP) and Naomi Long (Alliance) ... She and two of her Alliance colleagues, Chris Lyttle and Tim Morrow, are in a grudge match against the DUP in the constituency....

Who is Jayalalithaa to target us on 2G when she is convicted in the Tansi case: Kanimozhi

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
In the 2014 election the spectre of the 2G scam not only broke the Congress-DMK alliance in Tamil Nadu but also became a noose around the Congress's neck at the national level ... She says she's confident that the alliance with the Congress will work in spite of the earlier split. "In politics everybody does not stay with the same alliances always. I am confident the alliance will work," she says....

The Next US Coup in Latin America: Obama Takes Aim at Venezuela’s Maduro

Edit Information Clearing House 07 May 2016
May 07, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Sputnik" -   On Monday, the US began a two-day energy summit in Washington, attended by several Caribbean countries, in an attempt to undermine the Petrocaribe oil alliance between Venezuela and Caribbean nations, in what some see as a bid to break the back of the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro....

Cong., Left have secret tie-up: Ananth Kumar

Edit The Hindu 07 May 2016
“Whereas the alliance is open in Bengal, it is secret in Kerala ... “Evidence of such an alliance is visible in Harippad where the Congress has chosen the LDF ......

DUP and Sinn Fein to keep reins of power after Stormont seats filled

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 May 2016
Of the candidates elected to the Assembly, the DUP has 38, Sinn Fein 28, the Ulster Unionists 16, the SDLP ......

NI Assembly election: Second day of counting nears conclusion

Edit BBC News 07 May 2016
The DUP has 37 seats so far, while Sinn Féin has 22, the Ulster Unionists 15, SDLP 11 and Alliance Party eight ... Alliance is expected to return with eight MLAs; the Greens and People Before Profit will have two each ... Alliance Party leader David Ford said his party had had a "safe ... The left-wing People Before Profit Alliance won two seats on Friday....

Belfast East: Bunting, Long, Allen and Douglas all elected

Edit The Irish Times 07 May 2016
In the 2011 Assembly election, the DUP won three seats, the Alliance two - those of Mr Lyttle and Judith Cochrane - with the UUP winning the remaining seat....
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