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Women voters expected to play significant role in India’s general election

May 2, 2024Politics

A multiweek general election is underway in India and more women are taking part in it than ever before. Nearly half of the electorate is expected to be female. The country’s political parties are now running campaign ads targeted toward women to win over this crucial voting bloc.

Supporters cheer at a Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore campaign rally in Midland City, Alabama.

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Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi says his country's politicians must heal the country's ethnic divide.

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Youth in Istanbul, Turkey protest the results of a referendum on their president's powers.

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Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London,

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