The Daily Populous

Monday April 1st, 2024 evening edition

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suffered a setback as the country's largest opposition prevailed over his ruling party in local elections nationwide.

Turkey held local elections across 81 provinces on Sunday.

Over 98 percent of ballot boxes had been opened across the country as of 3:30 a.m. on Monday, local time.

The main opposition Republican People's Party led with more than 37 percent of the vote in mayoral elections, compared with over 35 percent for the governing Justice and Development Party.

In the capital Ankara and the country's largest city of Istanbul, the incumbent mayors of the main opposition party declared victory.

Erdogan spoke to supporters at the headquarters of the governing party on Monday.

He said his party did not achieve the desired result, and he vowed to carry out self-criticism and address shortcomings. »

Scientists toss 350,757 coins to prove theory that coin tosses aren't 50/50

Authored by unilad.com

The revelation comes from a preregistered study which recorded the results of 350,757 coin tosses, and suggested that there is in fact a tiny bias involved in the flipping of any coin.

This is down to a theory called the Diaconis Model, which the researchers used to claim that coins are more likely to land facing the same way they were when the coin toss began.

So, with this knowledge on your side, why not challenge someone to a coin toss and see if the odds are in your favor?. »

Helldivers 2 director's "childhood dream" is for the co-op shooter to join the pantheon of PlayStation's biggest IP: "It's crazy that it might be in the future"

Authored by gamesradar.com

Helldivers 2, of course, is a PlayStation console exclusive and will likely stay that way for the foreseeable future, but its developer, Arrowhead Studios, remains independent.

Even so, Pilestedt hopes one day for Helldivers to be considered in the same pantheon of PlayStation brand icons as Uncharted, God of War, and Horizon.

Pilestedt said he agrees with the fan's assessment, but added, "It's crazy that it might be in the future.... Like... »

Belarus threatens to attack Lithuania and Poland

Authored by ukrainianworldcongress.org
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Self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has threatened a possible attack on the Suwałki Gap – the territory that connects Poland with the Baltic States and separates the territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast from Belarus.

The dictator discussed plans to seize parts of Lithuania and Poland with the commander of the Northwest Operational Command, Alexander Naumenko.

Lukashenko asked the military commander whether Belarus could retain this territory “with its own troops,” to which he received an affirmative response. »