The President Will Start Meeting The Parties For Caretaker Cabinet Immediately
The Bulgarian president begins talks with potential caretaker prime ministers immediately
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Almost 19 million Venezuelans are voting Sunday to elect a successor to Hugo Chavez.
Polls open at 06:30 local time (10:30 GMT) and close 10 hours later, although they will stay open until all those in line by closing time have the chance to cast their ballot.
Voting is electronic - one machine will identify voters' fingerprints, and a second will recognize his or her identity card numbers and register the vote anonymously.
President Hugo Chavez died on March 5, after a two-year long battle against an undisclosed type of cancer.
The winner is to be sworn in on April 19 and will serve until January 2019, to complete the six-year term that Chavez would have begun in January.
Chavez's handpicked candidate, his deputy and interim president, Nicolas Maduro is seen as the front-runner, but recent polls show the gap between him and his top rival, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, is narrowing.
Venezuelan state television showed Maduro visiting the tomb of the late leader, accompanied by the Argentine football star Diego Maradona, who also took part in Maduro's final rally Thursday.
On Friday, members of the opposition campaign said they had lodged an official complaint with the Electoral Commission, insisting VTV was "shamelessly breaking the electoral rules," BBC reports.
For his part, Nicolas Maduro claims an alleged "dirty war" is being plotted against him from Colombia's capital, Bogota.
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In a sobering assessment of the current geopolitical landscape, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has sounded the alarm, cautioning that Europe is entering a "pre-war era"
Israeli airstrikes have resulted in the deaths of thirty-eight individuals in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo
Russian forces have carried out targeted attacks on critical infrastructure sites in central Ukraine, causing widespread alarm and disruption
Ukrainian military intelligence has accused Russian intelligence services of having prior knowledge about the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow
Israeli military operations against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City's Shifa Hospital and Khan Yunis continued, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
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