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In this week’s podcast we’ve got a G7 meeting in Japan, possible flooding in northern Italy, voters heading to the polls in Timor-Leste, an important deadline for elections in Ecuador and a look at Turkey’s upcoming presidential runoff.
In this week’s forecast we’ve got a presidential election in the Czech Republic, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, North Korea’s parliament holding a session, nurses striking in the UK and a look at the storms wreaking havoc in California.
In this week’s forecast we’ve got the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt, bird flu in the United Kingdom, the US midterm elections, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Cambodia and a look at the Black Sea grain deal.
In this week’s forecast we’ve got Russia’s parliament holding an extraordinary session, an extreme heat warning for the UK, presidents from Russia, Turkey and Iran meeting in Tehran, Sri Lanka’s parliament voting for a new president and a look at the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Factal’s weekly look at the news coming up. This week the Forecast looks at Anti-government protests breaking out in Sri Lanka, Russia-backed South Ossetia holding elections, Somalia swearing in parliament, and more.
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