Stephane Le Foll, the French Socialist government's spokesman and its agriculture minister, said on Tuesday he backs his party's official candidate Benoit Hamon but might vote for independent centrist Emmanuel Macron instead.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest national ruler, turns 93 on Tuesday, defiantly vowing to remain in power despite growing signs of frailty and failing health.
Italy's most important political party moved closer to fracturing after former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped down Sunday as the Democratic Party's general secretary, setting up a showdown between his allies and the party's old guard.
Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Party (PD) on Sunday, opening the way for a leadership fight in which he will take on rivals threatening to split the centre-left.
Ireland's minority government on Wednesday survived a parliamentary vote of no-confidence over its handling of a policing scandal, but Prime Minister Enda Kenny faced growing calls from members of his own party to step aside.
Cambodia's charismatic opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, says he will step down "for the sake of his party".
Former European Parliament president Martin Schulz has been nominated by Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) as the party's candidate for the chancellery in the coming national elections scheduled for September, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported on Sunday.
South Korea’s ruling party is to change its name for the second time in five years, it said on Monday, as it seeks to dissociate itself from the corruption scandal surrounding impeached President Park Geun-hye.
Left-wing outsider Benoit Hamon will fight former prime minister Manuel Valls for the French Socialist presidential nomination on Sunday after winning the first round of the party's primary.
Turkey's parliament approved key articles of a constitutional reform overnight which would allow the president to be a member of a political party and issue decrees, bringing a step closer the executive presidency sought by Tayyip Erdogan.
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are expected to choose their long-standing chairman Sigmar Gabriel to run against conservative Angela Merkel for chancellor in September's federal election, senior party sources said on Thursday (Jan 5).
A high-ranking city official in China burst into a government meeting on Wednesday (Jan 4) and shot the mayor and city party secretary before killing himself, state media reported.
A man has been killed in a horse race at a birthday party that hit the headlines after an invitation went viral on Facebook.
A political clock is rapidly changing in South Korea on the first division in almost three decades of the conservative bloc and the scheduled return of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is seen as one of powerful presidential contenders.
South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party is expected to be cut in half in the near future as scores of lawmakers with one of the two party factions agreed on Wednesday to defect next week after the presidential impeachment.
A group of South Korea's ruling party members supporting President Park Geun-hye are set to launch their alliance Tuesday to cope with challenges from increasingly vocal anti-Park rivals.
All members of South Korea's biggest opposition party will resign their parliamentary seats unless the bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye is passed through the National Assembly, the party's whip said Thursday.
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