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Indonesia police fire teargas ahead of court verdict on election

(Reuters) – Indonesian police fired teargas to disperse thousands of protesters outside the country’s top court in Jakarta on Thursday, as judges started delivering their verdict into last month’s disputed presidential election. Losing candidate Prabowo Subianto has asked the Constitutional Court to overturn the election result, saying the vote in the world’s third largest democracy was tainted by mass fraud. Judges started reading through their findings – estimated to be hundreds of pages long – […]