Tag: Election
Honduran forces battle protesters as election chaos lingers
TEGUCIGALPA: Honduran soldiers and police clashed with protesters blocking roads across the Central American country on Saturday, as discontent continues to fester nearly two...
667,775 Americans engaged with Russian ‘troll’ tweets in 2016 election: Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter said it has found Russian efforts to influence the US presidential election in 2016 were more extensive than it originally thought,...
Sisi to run for second term in upcoming election
CAIRO: Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday he will run for a second term in office in an election in March, which...
Costa Rica presidential election likely to go without clear frontrunner: poll
SAN JOSE: Three conservative candidates lead the race to win Costa Rica’s presidential election next month, but none of them is likely to garner...
Russian court denies Navalny election complaint
KREMLIN: Russia's Constitutional Court has refused to review a complaint from opposition leader and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny about election laws used by authorities...
Iraq PM say he will lead diverse coalition in May election
BAGHDAD: Iraq's prime minister says he will lead a "cross-sectarian" list in national elections proposed for May, hoping to build off last year's victory...
Trump says beating Oprah will be ‘lots of fun’
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said that he does not think that Oprah Winfrey will run for president in 2020, but even if she does.. he...
Trump meets Republicans to discuss strategy for 2018 congress election
WASHINGTON: Following a disruptive start to 2018, President Donald Trump will huddle with top Republicans on a two-day retreat starting on Friday to lay...
Merkel starts over with coalition talks
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, weakened by an election setback in September, launches a second bid to build a coalition government on Sunday when...
7.3m CNIC holders to be registered for upcoming elections: report
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is about to launch a drive to register the 7.3 million computerised national identity card (CNIC) holders,...
ECP bars 314 political parties from contesting general elections
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has barred at least 314 political parties from contesting general elections 2018 under the provisions of Election...
APML kicks off election campaign, to hold meeting in Karachi in...
ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) has started its election campaign and announced the schedule for its public meetings ahead of the 2018...
India’s Modi in final phase of campaigning to retain home base
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the final phase of campaigning on Thursday to retain power in his home state and stave...
Turnout of 34.5 percent in Kenya vote re-run: election commission head
NAIROBI: An estimated 6.55 million Kenyans voted in Thursday’s presidential election re-run, just 34.5 percent of registered voters, Wafula Chebukati, election commission chairman, said...
Shinzo to push for reform of Japanese pacifist constitution
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc scored a big win in Sunday’s election, bolstering his chance of becoming the nation’s longest-serving premier...
Hillary Clinton blames election loss on sexism during UK book tour
CHELTENHAM: Former US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton blamed her 2016 election loss to Donald Trump on sexism and the “double standards” women are held...
Facebook beefing up team to thwart election manipulation
SAN FRANSISCO: Facebook on Monday said it will hire more than 1,000 people to thwart deceptive ads crafted to knock elections off course.
The announcement came...
