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Israel swerved back to the centre

Reality Check: Israeli elections, Jordanian elections, Cameron's EU speech, 20 years Lichtermeer, Cold a Long Time

Despite the views of many commentators last week that the Israeli elections were likely to see a swing to the far right, that has not been the case. The winners are the centre parties - most notably, the newly formed Yesh Atid party, led by TV presenter Yair Lapid and representing a centre left, secular platform. In a quite astonishing turn of events, they came second with 19 seats.

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Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to stay in power, but will have to re-think his coalition

The big loser was Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-Beitenu alliance which lost around 25% of its seats, but still remains the latest party on 31 seats.

To put this in context - there are 120 seats in total. That mean's Netanyahu is going to have to do some serious coalition building, and there is no guarantee he will succeed. He is promising a broad coalition - but when you look at the figures, he doesn't really have any choice.

Our Jerusalem correspondent, Irris Makler, gives her analysis of the election results and what is likely to happen next.

Jordanian elections

Jordan is holding its first elections since reforms were made in the wake of the Arab Spring. Rosemary Hollis explains why, despite the reforms, many Jordanians are still not happy.

David Cameron's EU speech

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, finally makes his long awaited speech on the EU. Olly Barratt reports from London.

20th anniversary of the Lichtermeer

APA-Ulrich Schnarr

Up to 250.000 people took part in the "Lichtermeer" on January 23rd 1993, in protest against the FPÖ's Volksbegehren, "Österreich Zuerst"

What has been achieved 20 years on from the Lichtermeer. Joachim Stern, a lecturer at the institute for public law at Vienna university, looks at the changes that have been made in immigration law.

Cold a Long Time

Chris Cummins looks at a new book by John Leake on the story of a young Canadian called Duncan Macpherson who disappeared 20 years ago after a snowboarding lesson on the Stubai Glacier. Read more here.

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