Wheels have been set in motion to make history in Sri Lanka after incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa called for snap presidential elections on Jan. 8 and sought a third term.
A breakaway faction of Nepal's CPN- Maoist, which is led by youth leader Netra Bikram Chand, has announced the formation of a new party, the faction leader said on Monday.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday won the race to the leadership of crisis-hit conservative party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a step crucial to bid for the presidency in 2017.
Zambia's governing party, the Patriotic Front (PF), faces internal rifts following the death of its founder, President Michael Sata.
Botswana people will go to the polls on Oct. 24 in the country's 11th general elections, during which they will vote for 57 members of National Assembly (parliament) and 490 council members for local government.
Germany's anti-euro party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has taken big strides forward in Sunday's regional parliament elections in German states of Thuringia and Brandenburg, according to predictions of German television ARD.
Pakistan's main opposition, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has formally protested to the United States ambassador in Islamabad over media reports that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on the party in 2010 when it was ruling the country, the party's spokesman said Sunday.
Following the split of the country's second-largest opposition party, the Japan Restoration Party (JRP), with the two splinter factions led by former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto set to go their separate ways, concerns are rife among some opposition party contingents about their diminishing voice in the national government.
Japan's second-largest opposition party the Japan Restoration Party (JRP) formally decided to dissolve after an extraordinary party meeting in Osaka, local media reported Sunday.
A proposal has been approved by Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) for appointing Wu Den-yih as vice chairman of the party.
Japan's second-largest opposition party the Japan Restoration Party will split in two as its two leaders are at odds about the party's merger with the Unity Party (Yui no To), a top spokesperson said Wednesday.
British Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg said Monday his party suffered a "huge setback" in the European elections, as the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP) has wiped out most of its seats in the European legislature.
India's Congress party Monday set up a united front behind its leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, rejecting their offer of resignation in the wake of the devastating election defeat suffered by the party in its history.
President hopefuls in Indonesia's election finally announced on Monday their running mates shortly before the expiration of registration period slated for May 20 with some of them going through weary talks to nominate the vice president candidates.
Voting for India's general elections in northern state of Punjab began Wednesday morning, officials said.
India's ruling Congress party Monday launched a scathing attack on the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, linking him to a businessman allegedly involved in money laundering.
The Indian Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said if Narendra Modi comes to power, he would annihilate Muslims of India.
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