Lower House Elections

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Democratic Republic of Congo used tear gas to break up clashes between supporters of the...

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz wants to wrap up the negotiations that should make him Germany's next...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan dissolved its parliament on Thursday, setting the stage for an...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's largest opposition, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), said on Thursday it would try to...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Hadi al-Amiri, one of the most powerful pro-Iranian figures in Iraq, has rejected the results of Iraq's...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq is counting the results of a parliamentary election held on Sunday, its fifth since the U.S.-led invasion...

By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech President Milos Zeman was receiving treatment in an intensive care unit on Sunday, creating...

By John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Soldiers, prisoners and displaced people voted in special early polls in...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czechs began voting on Friday in a tight election in which Prime Minister Andrej Babis hopes to...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Ailing Czech President Milos Zeman has cancelled a live TV interview planned for Sunday after weekend elections...

By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, this week set Oct. 31 as the date...

By Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government has ditched a long tradition of frugality over the last few...

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Whether the Social Democrats' Olaf Scholz or a conservative becomes the next German chancellor, they...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that tweaking the country's financial...

By Andrew Mills and Lisa Barrington DOHA (Reuters) -Qataris voted on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state's first legislative elections...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Newly retired boxing icon Manny Pacquiao was the first to file his candidacy to...

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France's Armed Forces minister defended her country's counterterrorism role in Mali and accused the military...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Olaf Scholz, the leader of the Social Democrats, on his election success,...