Elections / Voting

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office before parliament on Thursday, with...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on the members of the top electoral court to...

By Tatiana Bautzer and Lisandra Paraguassu SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Hundreds of business leaders representing large Brazilian banks and other companies...

By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov has registered as a candidate for next month's...

By Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny stayed with him in a Russian...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong judge cleared on Thursday singer and pro-democracy activist Anthony Wong...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin does not have a majority as he has asserted, the main...

By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday raged against a Supreme Court investigation...

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan authorities have detained a former beauty queen bidding to contest the November presidential elections, her party said,...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's incoming presidential chief of staff Ciro Nogueira said on Wednesday the government will relaunch an ambitious social...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces an unusual challenge as he prepares to call...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will not send observers to Russia's parliamentary elections...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's lawyers against a decision...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Electoral Commission will on Wednesday apply to the Constitutional Court for municipal elections to be...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday ordered a review of the risks to Belarusians in Ukraine following...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress passed a land bill on Tuesday that is backed by the country's...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian prime minister-designate Plamen Nikolov of anti-elite There Is Such a People (ITN) party said on Tuesday...

By Holger Hansen and Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's Greens presented an "emergency climate protection programme" on Tuesday, aiming to...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's hardline incoming president Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday he would take steps to lift...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Lyubov Sobol, a close ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, to 1-1/2...