In 2017, after far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her allies won only a handful of seats in parliamentary elections, she blamed France’s two-round voting system for shutting her party out of Parliament despite getting more than 1 million…
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Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a long-time legislator, won Colombia’s presidential election Sunday (19), galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders, with promises to expand social…
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Israel’s governing coalition will vote to dissolve Parliament within the next week, bringing down the government and sending the country to a fifth election in three years, the prime minister’s office and two coalition officials said Monday…
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The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol opened a landmark set of hearings Thursday (9) by showing video of aide after aide to former President Donald Trump testifying that his claims of a…
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Like 9/11, Jan. 6 needs no year attached to convey its dark place in American history. On that Wednesday afternoon, 64 days after Election Day 2020, a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump assaulted the Capitol, resulting in what Vice…
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A decade ago, before Australia launched its boat turnback policy, as many as 120 boats a year ventured from Sri Lanka towards Australia, as people tried to escape civil war between the military and Tamil separatists, and the continued…
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Two anti-establishment candidates, Gustavo Petro, a leftist, and Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing populist, captured the top two spots in Colombia’s presidential election Sunday (29), delivering a stunning blow to Colombia’s dominant…
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World Health Organization (WHO) Member States on Tuesday (24) re-elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the world’s leading public health agency. Dr Tedros was first elected in 2017
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A second lawmaker has quit Israel’s governing coalition, giving the opposition a narrow two-seat majority in parliament and raising the possibility of a fifth election in three years that would deepen the country’s political stasis
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2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote
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