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    Nicolás Maduro declared Venezuela election winner by thin margin

    Political heir to Hugo Chávez claims victory in presidential election but rival Henrique Capriles demands recount
     
    Photos: Venezuela’s interim president, Nicolás Maduro, greets supporters as he arrives to cast his ballot Photograph: Enric Marti/AP
     
    Venezuelans pose with their ink-stained fingers after voting for Chávez’s successor Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters
     
    Supporters celebrate after the official results of the presidential elections were announced at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP
     
    Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores celebrate after the official results gave him a victory Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters

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    “No doubt you have also noticed that, with less than 10 weeks to go until the November presidential election, our country is in the grip of an increasingly ugly political campaign. So, with this combination of bad economics and bad politics, we look to you for direction and leadership. It is that simple, and that important.

    “We need you to overcome a prolonged period of congressional paralysis and polarization in order to address the country’s malaise. We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.”

    A back-to-school letter for the US Congress

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    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo: Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
    Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo:
    Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

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    Marine Le Pen, candidate for the far-right National Front, votes in Henin-Beaumont Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters From our correspondent in Paris Angelique Chrisafis following last night’s first round election results: The surge by the extreme-right Marine Le Pen - the highest ever score by the Front National - complicates matters. The race will now be tight and awkward.
    Marine Le Pen, candidate for the far-right National Front, votes in Henin-Beaumont Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

    From our correspondent in Paris Angelique Chrisafis following last night’s first round election results:

    The surge by the extreme-right Marine Le Pen - the highest ever score by the Front National - complicates matters. The race will now be tight and awkward.

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    Mitt Romney ‘glitter-bombed’ by gay rights acivists in Minnesota

    Mitt Romney was subject to the latest in a series of ‘glitter bombings’ by gay rights activists from the Glitterati group at a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday in protest at the former Massachusetts governor’s anti-gay marriage stance. Previous targets have included Romney’s rival candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum

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