Government, elections, parliament, legislative developments, and political policy.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from the Mamata Banerjee camp, Sanchita Pradhan De, withdrew her candidature from the upcoming crucial Nandigram poll, with barely a month to go, hours after she met the Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at the state secretariat in Nabanna.
South Africa has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world, and a spate of killings of nine women in the same area in recent weeks has led to renewed outrage.
Before several thousand sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln descended on Pattaya, Thailand, the Navy issued a reminder: paying for sex is against the rules.
The National Assembly’s presiding officers don't know what the impact of the new United States (US) visa restrictions will be, and how they will affect the country’s members of Parliament (MPs) who also serve in government.
COTABATO CITY — An elderly Moro man was wounded in the crossfire between policemen and supporters of a political party who clashed in Shariff Saydona Mustapha town in Maguindanao del Sur on Monday, September 14, as the Bangsamoro parliamentary polls were being held in the municip...
In early July, one of the Northlander trains ploughed into a vehicle at the rail crossing on High Falls Road when the lights were active to stop cars entering the track.
Voting got underway on Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first parliamentary election since Russia launched its full-scale war in Uk...
PRESS REVIEW – Friday, September 18: Russia holds its first parliamentary elections since the Ukraine war. Since only parties loyal to Vladimir Putin are running, the elections are seen as nothing but a veneer of democracy. In sports: Zinedine Zidane will unveil his first selecti...
Russian State Duma elections will be held in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia amid accusations of armed voter intimidation.
The Justice Department says 42 people vanished at sea after a Colombian smuggler guided them onto a boat from San Andrés Island to Nicaragua.
Bodies of nine women have been found in a Johannesburg neighbourhood in two months, as worries grow over women's safety.
Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities
Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 76 on Thursday, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin among the foreign leaders who sent birthday greetings, highlighting ties between their countries and Indi...
A China Coast Guard vessel rammed a Philippine boat on a resupply mission in the South China Sea on Friday, damaging its railings and deck structures but causing no injuries, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said, in the latest confrontation between the two countries in disputed ...
A Sri Lankan court on Friday deferred the bail hearing of opposition leader Namal Rajapaksa, who is in remand custody in a case over alleged corruption in the purchase of Airbus aircraft. Rajapaksa, 40, appeared before the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court, where his lawyers sought...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has floated the idea of making Canada the first “associate member” of the European Union, offering Prime Minister Mark Carney a political boost as he remains locked in a trade war with US President Donald Trump. But while the pro...
Russians began voting on Friday in the country’s first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in a contest with virtually no real opposition and one that is widely expected to strengthen the Kremlin’s hold on power.
Russia’s parliamentary election is under way, with voting beginning in the Far East on Friday, 18 September before spreading across the country for three days. Polls will remain open until Sunday evening, when voters will have chosen all 450 members of the State Duma.