The Far Right, Mainstreamed

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In Belgrade, Aleksandar Vučić said he will resign within weeks and call early elections after 18 months of student-led protests, hinting he could return as prime minister, the clearest people-power concession in the region this year. In the Indian Ocean, Modi closed a three-day Seychelles state visit with nine agreements, a patrol vessel and a Rs 1,250cr credit line, becoming the first Indian leader to address the island's parliament as Delhi races Beijing's port footprint. In London, Keir Starmer resigned June 22, giving Britain its seventh prime minister in a decade; Andy Burnham leads the Labour succession race with nominations opening July 9. The Iran MoU places Pezeshkian in the position of defending a deal his own IRGC is actively undermining, a test of whether civilian government can hold against the Guards on a live issue. Delcy Rodriguez's interim government is managing a catastrophic earthquake response with degraded infrastructure and US sanctions in the background, Trump's aid pledge notwithstanding. In the Indo-Pacific, Tarique Rahman's 13 MoUs with Beijing mark the clearest pivot away from India Dhaka has signalled in years. Xi's Pyongyang visit and his Myanmar engagement continue Beijing's dual-track of shoring up buffer states while managing two troubled dependencies. The NATO Ankara summit July 7-8 arrives with the 5% GDP defence pledge pre-agreed by the E5.

Netanyahu pinned between the Iran ceasefire and his far-right partners

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Peru's eighth president in a decade to be picked in a Fujimori–Sánchez runoff

Months after Congress ousted Boluarte, a fragmented 35-candidate field narrows to far-right Keiko Fujimori versus the left's Roberto Sánchez

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Costa Rica elects hardliner Laura Fernández in a first-round security landslide

A Chaves-aligned conservative wins outright with 48.5% and a single-party legislative majority, the first since 1990

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