Some Africanist inside baseball

1 December 2015

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Zelenskiy's party in spotlight as Ukraine holds snap parliament election July 21, 2019
Ukrainians vote in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday that could consolidate the power of new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and hand the novice politician a stronger mandate for driving change in the war-scarred nation.
Pacifist constitution reform at stake as Japan goes to polls July 21, 2019
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc was forecast to win a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday that could determine whether his dream of revising the post-war, U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution can be kept alive.
Suspected Japan arsonist a reclusive, quarrelsome gamer, neighbor says July 21, 2019
The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometers from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and had "terrified" his neighbor just days earlier.

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