Russia’s election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month’s presidential vote. Mr Nadezhdin has been relatively critical of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine when few dissenting voices have been tolerated in Russia. Election … Read More
WARSAW, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Poles vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday which the opposition says will determine the country’s democratic standing and place in the European Union, after a bitterly contested campaign dominated by issues of sovereignty and … Read More
Twitter’s decision to block certain content in Turkey the day before its presidential election was wrong, says the founder of Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales told the BBC his organisation had spent two and a half years in court to avoid similar … Read More
TUNIS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The ultra-low turnout of 8.8% in Tunisia’s parliamentary election on Saturday may prove a defining moment in the struggle between President Kais Saied and a fragmented but increasingly confident opposition that accuses him of a … Read More
On Wednesday night, Meretz was placed just below the threshold of 3.25%, and the Likud led with 32 seats. Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu will with near certainty be Israel’s next prime minister after approximately 90% of the votes counted, … Read More
Israelis are voting on Tuesday, in the fifth election since 2019, and hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the country for the past three and a half years. Although the cost of living is surging, Israeli-Palestinian tensions … Read More