Bomb blasts tore through two campaign events Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, authorities said, as attacks ahead of Saturday's national election continued against liberal politicians. About 100 people have been killed since April in violence against candidates and party supporters, according ...
Fringe independence party sends shivers down Tory spines
Landing on doormats across Somerset in recent weeks has been a Tory election leaflet the like of which locals have never seen before: "A vote for UKIP is a vote for the Lib Dems. UKIP has no plans or policies for Somerset. Only the ...
The most popular politician in Pakistan's largest party won't be staging any rallies or participating in debates as May's historic national election nears. The reason: She's dead. Yet Benazir Bhutto, assassinated more than five years ago, is still the standard bearer of the Pakistan People's Party ...
Enactment of a bill to allow candidates' campaigns to use the Internet is expected to increase people's interest in politics and voters' turnout at the polls.
Iran's political landscape has become increasingly divided during controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second and final term. But as a diverse array of candidates to replace him takes shape, nearly all the contenders seem united on one thing: attacking the president's legacy. The eventual winner of ...
In Venezuela's brief but raucous presidential campaign, the ruling party has let Hugo Chavez do the talking. On state television, he provides words of wisdom in frequent ads, and loudspeakers at campaign rallies belt out recordings of him singing the national anthem. And then there's ...
Cabinet OKs bill to pare gap in vote values
On the heels of a spate of court rulings that the general election was unconstitutional and even invalid, the Cabinet approves a bill to rectify vote-value disparities.
Can GOP governors save their ailing party?
The Republican National Committee (RNC) task force report painted a stark portrait of a party divided between its struggling federal wing and its thriving gubernatorial wing. The GOP's path to rehabilitation may indeed run through the states, but some of the report's assertions about ...
Election reform now key task for Abe & Co.
Prime Minister Abe may soon face a challenge over the issue of vote-value disparities as the opposition demands swifter, more comprehensive reforms to close the unconstitutional gaps.
Louis Giscard d'Estaing, a former two-term deputy representing Puy-de-Dome in the National Assembly, mayor of Chamalieres and son of former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing kicked off his latest campaign Tuesday afternoon — in Bethesda, Maryland. Flanked by two 20-year-old campaign volunteers in European knotted ...
If Indians were to vote against corruption, a slowing economy and weak leadership in the 2014 national elections — all that urban middle-class population is roiled by — controversial Hindu nationalist politician Narendra Modi could win the office of prime minister hands down. He has ...
