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Meaning Freshly printed. Origin This term is applied especially to newspapers.<br>Newsprint presses generate heat when printing, by a process called, for obvious reasons, 'hot metal printing'. Although the term only really makes complete sense for things like newspapers which are pressed and hot, it is by extension now also used to refer to anything that is fresh and newly made.<br>Hot off (or from) the press (or presses) didn't originate as a phrase until the middle of the 20th century. For example, [https://WWW.Tumblr.com/adspablo/781045895906082816/ceramica-di-sassuolo-il-centro-di-produzione-di?source=share Gres porcellanato sassuolo] The Times August 1955: "But it is for novelties, hot from the press or the copyist's desk, that discontent is calling." The hotness is a clear allusion to the hot metal process, but may also allude to an earlier usage of hot news , i.e.<br><br>to mean striking or sensational news. This is used in a Daily Express story in September 1914: 'Hot news' ... must be provided for the people, and thus we learn from the Vienna 'Abendblatt' that General French is a [https://stract.com/ prisoner].<br><br>Nevertheless, voting did not go ahead in around one-fifth of the country's 547 constituencies because of ethnic violence or logistical problems. If you liked this article and you would like to get more info pertaining to [https://WWW.Tumblr.com/adspablo/781045895906082816/ceramica-di-sassuolo-il-centro-di-produzione-di?source=share Vendita diretta piastrelle] generously visit our own website. A second batch of polling is due to take place on September 6 in many of those left out.<br><br>In Abiy's native Oromia region, Ethiopia's largest, two of the most prominent opposition parties -- the Oromo Federalist Congress and the Oromo Liberation Front -- pulled out entirely, saying their candidates had been arrested and offices vandalised.<br><br>The Prosperity Party "should focus on stabilising the country, stopping intercommunal conflicts, managing inflation, engaging the opposition and initiating an all-inclusive national dialogue," Tegbaru wrote. "This could earn it popular legitimacy."<br><br>Ethiopia's ruling party won a landslide in a landmark parliamentary poll, results showed Saturday, ensuring a new five-year term for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed despite a brutal war in the northern region of Tigray.<br><br>"He is the one who saved Ethiopia from the internal and external forces that tried to destabilise it," he said, referring to the Tigray People's Liberation Front and countries pressuring Ethiopia over its mega-dam project on the Nile.<br><br>"People, especially the youth, they need to be heard, so they should have a voice in the political process," Addisu said. "Even if it may not be always successful in influencing political decisions, the fact that they are heard itself is important."<br><br>But there is no election date set for Tigray, where fighting marked by myriad atrocities raged for eight months before federal troops withdrew at the end of June in the face of rebel advances and Abiy's government declared a unilateral ceasefire.<br><br>His Prosperity Party won 410 seats in the federal parliament out of 436 where elections were held, according to results issued by the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), which said there would be a rerun in 10 constituencies.<br><br>But it also noted some constituencies experienced "improper arrests", voter intimidation and "harassment" of observers and journalists; and said it had observed several killings in the days leading up the vote in Oromia.<br><br>The situation remains precarious in Tigray, with analysts warning of potential further fighting and some world leaders denouncing a "siege" blocking desperately-needed aid for a region where hundreds of thousands face famine.
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