Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged early Wednesday as the decisive winner of Israel's parliamentary election, showed official results after 99 percent of the ballots having been counted.
Ruling party lawmakers in South Korea has put forward views that it would be necessary to adopt the U.S.-developed missile defense system to enhance defense capabilities against what they called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear and missile threats.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott may have survived the party vote to keep him as leader on Monday but the underwhelming show of support has dealt him a serious blow.
Tony Abbott has reiterated that he is "very confident" he will remain as Australia's prime minister, despite increasing pressure to call for a leadership spill in the near future.
The co-leader of New Zealand's third biggest parliamentary political party, the Green Party, announced Friday he was standing down from the post.
The Italian government's arduous process of picking a successor to departed President Giorgio Napolitano is exposing cracks in the unlikely alliance between Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the supporters of controversial billionaire, former prime minister, and one-time Renzi rival Silvio Berlusconi.
The ongoing tussle between Nepal' s ruling and opposition parties is likely to deepen as both sides remain firm in their respective positions on drafting the new constitution and there are no signs of thaw, cross-party leaders said Saturday.
Nearly three dozen Nepal's opposition party activists were arrested and released in the strike on Tuesday afternoon around the country for vandalizing private and government vehicles.
The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Sunday threw its support behind deputy president Katsuya Okada, who is becoming its new leader in a party presidential election.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that he has no intention to establish a political party, which has been reassuring to politicians in Egypt, especially at a time months ahead of the parliamentary elections.
Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, will return to lead the royalist Funcinpec Party after a request from the current party's leaders, according to his statement on Thursday.
A New Year's Eve house party in Calgary in west Canada turned violent in the early hours of Thursday in a shooting that wounded seven people, according to the police.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday delivered a keynote speech at a new year celebration tea party of the country's top political advisory body.
South Korea's constitutional court ruled Friday that a minor political party, which has been considered as a blind follower of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), should be dismissed.
The Dutch government got into a sudden and unexpected crisis on Wednesday after three senators from PvdA party blocked a health care law by Edith Schippers, minister of Health, Welfare and Sport from the VVD party.
Indian Congress party President Sonia Gandhi Wednesday praised Kashmiri people for participating in huge numbers in the ongoing local elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Taiwan's leader Ma Ying-jeou announced Tuesday he will step down as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, taking responsibility for the party's poor showing in recent local elections.
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