Tag: Elections

It has taken Germany a frustratingly long six months from the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to a snap election to Tuesday’s swearing-in of Friedrich Merz as Scholz’s successor. ...

It took longer than expected, but South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally pushed the flaming wreckage of Yoon Suk-yeol’s presidency overboard. His illegal declaration of martial law in December, apparently intended ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at liberal parliamentary wins in Australia and Canada, Israel expanding its operations in Gaza, and a proposed U.S. tariff on movies filmed ...

In the end, it was not even close. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s People’s Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore uninterrupted since 1959, improved its vote share by more than ...

Anthony Albanese, who this weekend became the first Australian prime minister to win reelection since 2004, never once mentioned U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Nonetheless, the consensus ...

Virginia Republicans are splintering over GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s call for the party’s lieutenant-governor nominee to step aside — after the hopeful was accused of posting gay porn on Tumblr. ...

Vice President JD Vance argued Friday that President Trump is the leader of the Democratic Party — and quipped that the thought of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in the Oval ...

As it prepares to hold a rerun of its presidential election on May 4, Romania is improbably at ground zero of a new global struggle. A first effort at balloting ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the results of Canada’s election, hearings on Israel’s aid obligations in Gaza, and a befuddling blackout in Spain and Portugal. ‘Trump ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver her most extensive public remarks since losing to President Trump later this week – but social media users are already roasting ...