October 24, 2010 (2010-10-24) (Sunday)
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Politics and elections
- David Cameron bans Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, Britain's first female Muslim cabinet minister, from attending Global Peace and Unity, Europe's largest multicultural gathering. Nick Clegg takes the side of Baroness Warsi. (The Observer)
- Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman becomes Mayor of Piran (Slovenia), the first black mayor of a town in the so-called former Eastern Bloc of Europe. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The Supreme Court of Iraq orders the country's parliament back to work, ruling that the self-declared absence of politicians is unconstitutional. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Bahrain's elections officials say voter turnout was 67 per cent in the parliamentary election. The main Shia opposition group, Al Wefaq, kept its 18 seats in the 40-member legislature. (AP) (Tehran Times)
- Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is reported to be a "lot brighter" following her hospitalisation with the influenza that disrupted her 85th birthday reception. (Press Association)
- Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé, the two candidates in the second round of the Guinean presidential election, call for calm after the election is delayed. (BBC)
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