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Silvio Berlusconi’s government won a confidence vote on a bill in parliament Tuesday, bringing temporary relief to the Italian premier after crushing defeats in...

Portugal’s centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) scored a convincing win over the Socialists in an election on Sunday, punishing the outgoing government for a 78...

Evidence of electronic eavesdropping on a political party just over a week before an election has given opposition leaders ammunition to question the state...

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan faces a rebellion in his party, media said on Wednesday, that while not enough to unseat him in a...

FIFA faced mounting calls to scrap its corruption-tainted presidential election on Tuesday as key sponsors formed a chorus of concern over the governing body’s...

Violence that erupted largely between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan won last month’s vote left at least 800 people dead,...

FIFA on Wednesday asked England’s Football Association and a newspaper to provide evidence of fresh allegations of corruption at the top of world football,...

KANO - The Muslim opposition candidate in Nigeria's presidential polls rejected the results Wednesday but urged calm after deadly post-election riots, amid a rush to help nearly 40,000 displaced. Authorities say many were killed the violence, which saw corpses burnt beyond recognition and bodies reportedly thrown into wells, but have refused to give a toll, saying it could spark reprisals and would be inaccurate.
There were reports of fresh clashes in the northern state of

KANO - A new outbreak of deadly post-poll riots hit northern Nigeria overnight as soldiers patrolled the streets Tuesday after President Goodluck Jonathan and his defeated rival called for calm. Authorities have not given a death toll for the rioting that began sporadically over the weekend over allegations of vote rigging and quickly spread to some 14 states on Monday. An estimated 15,000 have been displaced and more than 360 wounded, according to the Red Cross. Police said dozens of

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Monday passed the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2011 despite strong resistance from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which forced the party to stage a walkout in protest.
The amendments as introduced by the bill in Election Laws include production of national identity card by the voter issued by NADRA for casting vote, substitution of election commission in place of chief election commissioner where required, disclosure of secrete

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the Attorney General to appear before the court in a petition asking Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to seek a vote of confidence. The division bench headed by SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam heard the constitutional petition filed in the SHC by Maulvi Iqbal Haider, submitting that the prime minister should seek vote of confidence from the parliament, as he had lost majority after one of its partners withdrew from the ruling

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's ban on women voting or running as candidates is to remain in place for the conservative Muslim kingdom's municipal elections in April, the electoral committee head said on Monday. "We are not ready for the participation of women in these municipal elections," Abdulrahman al-Dahmash told reporters, renewing earlier promises that authorities would "allow (women's) participation in the next ballot.
"At a time of pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world,

PARIS - French polling booths opened on Sunday for another round of local elections that have caused alarm and disarray in President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party since the far-right National Front surged in first-round voting.
The polls gauge the national mood a year before presidential elections and will determine whether the anti-immigrant National Front gains a foothold in a handful of local councils, levers of grassroots political power.
Sarkozy's UMP party has

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued notices to the deputy attorney general and other respondents in a constitutional plea seeking a fresh vote of confidence from the National Assembly for Prime Minister (PM) Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Petitioner Rasheed Akhund, an advocate of the Supreme Court who had also moved the court against President Asif Ali Zardari holding dual offices, appeared before a division bench headed by Chief Justice Mushir Alam and submitted

LISBON - Portugal's parliament will vote on the government's latest austerity measures on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potential collapse of the minority Socialist administration a day before a European summit. Prime Minister Jose Socrates has threatened to resign if the opposition fails to approve the measures. The main opposition Social Democrats (PSD) are refusing to back them and have begun to talk about snap elections, complicating the country's drive to avoid following

LAHORE - Mobilink, Pakistan's market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) welcomes the positive vote expressed by the majority of VimpelCom shareholders in today's Special General Meeting.
Following this favourable outcome, the management teams of VimpelCom and Wind Telecom will proceed in satisfying the conditions precedent for the completion of the Transaction, which is expected to take place in the first half of 2011.
Commenting on the

BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva survived a no-confidence motion on Saturday brought by opposition lawmakers seeking to inflict damage ahead of upcoming elections. Abhisit won the vote following a four-day censure debate, in which the opposition Puea Thai party accused his administration of corruption, policy failures and human rights violations - charges the government denies. The victory - the third such censure motion that Abhisit has faced down since 2009 - means