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The 49-year-old center-left candidate, who is openly gay, won the local election with 35.2 percent of the vote ahead of liberal Carlos Fernando Galan.

To win outright, Fernandez required 45 percent, or 40 percent with a 10 point margin over his nearest rival.

Boris Johnson was forced to abandon his promise to leave the European Union on October 31.

Two girls in the US survive after a tree crashes through the roof of their home.

Kim criticised the appearance of the buildings constructed by Southern companies.

TikTok collects substantial personal data from users, making it a security risk.

Lee Jae-yong is vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics -- where profits have been falling for months -- and was jailed for five years in 2017.

A permanent ban on scaling Uluru -- also known as Ayers Rock -- comes into place Saturday.

The blaze burned several homes, structures and forced the closure of a major highway and a number of roads, as some 500 firefighters battled the flames.

MPs will decide Monday on whether to agree to the election, just as the EU is due to announce a three-month extension to the deadline.

Anna Campbell had died fighting ISIS in Syria, her father wants to bring her body back to the UK.

A row between a customer and the manager at McDonald's ended in violence when the manager threw a blender at the customer.

Seven years after the model's last revamp, the new Golf 8 is hitting the road in a vastly changed landscape.

More than two dozen lawmakers barged into a secure US Capitol meeting room, delaying the testimony of a Pentagon official.

A SIAC hearing has been arranged as Shamima Begum claims that her revoked citizenship puts her at risk of being attacked and killed in Syria.

Details of a final report on the Lion Air crash -- expected to be made public this week -- were shown to grieving relatives at a closed-door meeting in the Indonesian capital.

Democrats said the congressional testimony by Bill Taylor was a stunning confirmation of their allegations that Trump abused his office.

MPs finally backed an EU divorce deal, only to reject Johnson's rushed timetable to turn it into law.

Tusk advised the bloc's 27 member states to accept a postponement request from the UK government, which Johnson was forced to submit Saturday.

The new mini-deal includes a surge in Chinese purchases of American farm exports.

Trudeau will have to form an alliance with one or more smaller parties in order to govern a fractured nation.

His father Akihito abdicated earlier this year, and Tuesday's rituals witnessed royalty and political leaders from around the world.

House of Commons speaker John Bercow shot down Johnson's second attempt Monday to get MPs to sign off on his revised EU withdrawal terms.

Lawmakers voted to force Johnson to ask the European Union for another Brexit delay.

Witnesses said the roof of the mosque had fallen through after the "loud" explosion.

Naruhito officially assumed his duties as emperor on May 1, a day after his father became the first Japanese monarch to abdicate in 200 years.

Boris Johnson told in a Brussels press conference that he was "very confident" of getting the Brexit deal through.

The marches were organised by ANC and Omnium, the region's two biggest grassroots pro-independence groups.

Stock markets elsewhere were mixed, while the pound rose following a topsy-turvy session on shifting Brexit sentiment.