Tag: elections

DAKAR, Senegal (news agencies) — Senegal inaugurated Africa’s youngest elected leader as president on Tuesday, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison ...

ISTANBUL (news agencies) — The huge gains made by the opposition in Turkey’s local elections are raising the possibility that the long-serving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party ...

NEW DELHI (news agencies) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 ...

CAIRO (news agencies) — The U.S. military said Sunday its forces destroyed one unmanned aerial vehicle in a Houthi rebel-held area of war-ravaged Yemen and another over a crucial shipping ...

NEW DELHI (news agencies) — An alliance of India’s opposition parties launched its election campaign with a massive rally Sunday that criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of stifling opponents ...

ANKARA, Turkey (news agencies) — Turkey is holding local elections Sunday that will decide who gets to control Istanbul and other key cities. The vote is also a barometer of ...

BRUSSELS (news agencies) — The European Union intends to fast-track some of its aid money to Egypt using an urgent funding procedure that bypasses parliamentary oversight and other safeguards, according ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (news agencies) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition said Tuesday afternoon that the country’s government allowed them to register a provisional candidate for the upcoming presidential election, amid a ...

NEW YORK (news agencies) — A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (news agencies) — It’s a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns.On Monday, throngs of supporters of President Nicolás Maduro rallied at a giant stage draped in the ...