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ROME AP 鈥?Italy referendums aimed at relaxing citizenship laws and improving job protections failed on Monday bec stanley cup ause of low turnout.But organizers said that it contributed to restarting the public debate in the country over high-stakes issues.The result was a clear defeat for the center-left opposition and a victory for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her ruling right-wing coalition, which openly supported abstention.Final data showed that turnout stood at 30.6% of eligible voters after two days of polling, well below the 50% plus one required to make the vote valid.Meloni far-right Brothers of Italy party celebrated stanley es the referendum failure. The only real goal of this referendum was to bring down the Meloni government, the party said on social media, posting a picture of the main opposition leaders. In the end, it was the Italians who brought you down stanley spain . Maurizio Landini, leader of the CGIL trade union that was behind the initiative, acknowledged the defeat, but stressed it could be a starting point to revive key social battles focusing on workers ; rights. We knew it wouldnt be a walk in the park, he said. There is an obvious crisis of democracy and participation.Landini noted that more than 14 million Italians cast their ballots in the two-days referendum, with more than 80% voting in favor of the proposed measures aimed at strengthening job protections.The five proposals wanted to make it easier for immigrants a Ghiu Chesterville teen in critical condition after near drowning
BAGHDAD 鈥?President Barack Obama on Thursday threatened U.S. military strikes in Iraq against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want stanley trinkflaschen to establish their own state in Iraq and Syria.Iraqi Kurdish forces took advantage of the chaos to take control of the oil hub of Kirkuk as the troops of the Shiite-led government abandoned posts, alarming Baghdads allies both in the West and in neighboring Shiite regional power Iran. I dont rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria, Obama said at the White House whe stanley thermo n asked whether he was contemplating airstrikes. Officials later stressed that ground troops would not be sent in.Obama was looking at all options to help Iraqs leaders, who took full control when the U.S. occupation ended in 2011. In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militaril stanley quencher uk y, he said.But he also referred to long-standing U.S. complaints that Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had failed to do enough to heal a sectarian rift that has left many in the big Sunni minority, shut out of power when U.S. troops overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, nursing grievances and keen for revenge. This should be also a wakeup call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this, Obama said.Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington |
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