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By Barbara Erling

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO) was set to win European elections on Sunday, an exit poll showed, taking a step towards establishing itself as the dominant force in the country after a campaign dominated by security concerns.

With war raging in Ukraine and a migrant crisis on the Belarus border, Tusk framed the vote in Poland as a choice between a safe future in a country at... (continue reading...)

By James Mackenzie

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In the traumatic aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, as hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists rushed to join the ranks to fight Hamas, Benny Gantz said he felt it was his duty to join the war effort.

"This is not a political partnership I am in," the centrist former general told a group of reporters, shortly after agreeing to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an emergency... (continue reading...)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's ruling Morena party and its allies have won a super-majority in the lower house of Congress but not the Senate, the party's president said on Sunday, falling just short of the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to change the constitution.

Preliminary results from the June 2 vote, which elected Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico's first woman president in a landslide, had showed her party, Morena, and its allies coming close... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The far-right was on course to score big gains in Sunday's European Parliament elections, exit polls showed, as France and Germany joined the Netherlands in offering the first signs that a rightwards shift in the balance of power is under way.

Here are some quotes from across the bloc:

JORDAN BARDELLA, LEAD CANDIDATE, FRANCE'S FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY PARTY

"Emmanuel Macron is a weakened president, already... (continue reading...)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced on Sunday that he was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency unity government formed shortly after the Hamas Oct 7. attack on Israel.

His departure still leaves Netanyahu's nationalist-religious coalition in control of parliament with a 64-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset.

Gantz, a former armed forces chief and defence minister, heads the... (continue reading...)