The outgoing president has called for protests as he continues to dispute the results of last month’s election. Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026 Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro is set to deliver a public farewell address on Monday after calling for nationwide protests, as tensions continue over lastContinue Reading
It was a Capitol Hill mystery. For nearly a month, United States Senator Mitch McConnell was not seen or heard from in public. Little was known about the 84-year-old’s condition, other than that he was hospitalized on June 14. Conspiracy theories began to bubble online. One prominent right-wing influencer, LauraContinue Reading
The leader of the far-right, anti-immigration Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, has resigned from his seat in parliament and plans to stand again for his constituency amid allegations that he received and failed to declare millions of dollars in donations. The surprise announcement came on Tuesday as Farage faced theContinue Reading
Prolonged crisis has negatively affected Kosovo’s economy, already hit hard by the global energy crisis and rising fuel prices. Published On 7 Jun 20267 Jun 2026 Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls for an early parliamentary election, the third in 18 months, in an attempt to unlock a politicalContinue Reading
Rebecca Bennett has won a high-stakes Democratic Party primary in the US state of New Jersey, setting up a contest against Republican Tom Kean Jr, backed by President Donald Trump, for one of the most competitive seats in the upcoming midterm elections. Bennett, a former US Navy helicopter pilot, defeatedContinue Reading
Ethiopia will head to the polls on June 1 for its first nationwide elections since the formal end of the Tigray war, a devastating two-year conflict from 2020 to 2022 that concluded with a peace agreement between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). With aContinue Reading
Waving a big Catla fish in his hands, Sharadwat Mukherjee went door to door canvassing for votes before Thursday’s election to the state legislature in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Mukherjee is a candidate from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules nationally but hasContinue Reading
Ruling is latest loss for Trump administration, which has sought access to state voter data ahead of the US midterms. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 A federal judge in the United States has dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to access voter data from Rhode Island. TheContinue Reading
Benin will elect a new president on Sunday in a race that is shaping up to favor the chosen successor of the governing party, which has been in power for the past decade. Outgoing President Patrice Talon, 67, is swept under the constitution from running again after two terms inContinue Reading
As the small East African coastal nation of Djibouti prepares for presidential elections on Friday, longtime leader President Ismail Omar Guelleh is expected to win the polls with little to no challenge. Djibouti, a country of just about one million people that neighbors Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, is politically relevantContinue Reading
