Election

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing the loss of his parliamentary majority in this week's election, traded attacks with his main rival Saturday as a bad-tempered campaign entered its final days. Trudeau came to power in 2015 promising "sunny ways" and a new way of ...

Protesters clashed with police in the Spanish region of Catalonia on Wednesday, with some setting cars ablaze on the third day of disturbances caused by convictions handed down to leaders of a failed bid to declare an independent state. Divisions over the secession drive that ...

A court on Wednesday ruled July's Upper House election was in a "state of unconstitutionality" due to disparities in the weight of a single vote between urban and rural constituencies. But the high court in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, turned down the plaintiffs' demand to nullify ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who looks set to lose his parliamentary majority after an Oct. 21 election, said on Monday he needed a strong government to keep standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. Trudeau's remarks were unusually forceful, especially since the two leaders ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards failed to garner more than half of the votes in Saturday's primary election, forcing him into a run-off with Republican candidate Eddie Rispone to be held Nov. 16. Edwards won 47 percent of the vote, while Rispone, a Baton Rouge ...

Official campaigning began Thursday for the Upper House by-election in Saitama Prefecture, where a former governor is pitted against the head of a minor opposition party critical of public broadcaster NHK. Independent Kiyoshi Ueda, 71, is an established figure after serving as Saitama governor for ...

Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer pledged on Wednesday that if elected his party would take steps to limit illegal border crossings by migrants who first travel to the United States and then proceed to Canada. The Conservatives would "prioritize newcomers from violent and dangerous countries, ...

Kremlin-directed operatives opened champagne when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, according to a communication disclosed in a new Senate Intelligence Committee report outlining Russia's sweeping social media efforts to help him win. "We uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne ... took one gulp ...

Andrew Scheer, the head of Canada's opposition Conservatives, on Friday dropped one of his candidates for the Oct. 21 election and faced repeated questions about why he had not revealed that he also has U.S. citizenship. Polls show the Conservatives have a chance to beat ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be renowned internationally for his youthful persona and social media savvy, but even before the embarrassment of his recent black-face makeup scandal there were concerns about the support he needs from younger voters to win re-election. Young Canadians wanting ...

Two days after rallying 7 million protesters across the world by invoking the threat of climate change, Greta Thunberg got credit for motivating voters to re-draw the political landscape in Austria. After being frozen out of Parliament just two years ago, the Alpine country's Greens ...