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JOHANNESBURG(Reuters) - The vote share of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) after this week's parliamentary election slipped further to just over 40% with results in from almost all polling stations, the electoral commission's website showed on Saturday.

With results from 97% of voting centres, the ANC stood at 40.14%, a precipitous drop from the 57.5% it secured in the last national election in 2019.

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McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record holder in the 400 hurdles, last competed in the event in August 2022.

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By Lizbeth Diaz

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday's vote.

Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a candidate who was running for a council seat in the town of Izucar de Matamoros, was gunned down in the attack, according to the... (continue reading...)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) had 40.98% of the vote after the election commission released results from 91.62% of polling stations late on Friday.

(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Chris Reese)