Guterres, also the former UN high commissioner for refugees, garnered 11 "encourage" votes, two "discourage" votes and two "no opinion" from the 15-nation council in its second secret straw poll on candidate selection, diplomatic sources said.
Donald Trump was officially named as the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday after having rebuffed attempts from anti-Trump delegates to change party rules at the beginning of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Two groups of lawyers on Monday mounted legal challenges to the results of Sunday’s elections in Japan, claiming that the disparity in the value of votes in different parts of the country made the poll unconstitutional.
Legal teams in Japan will file lawsuits across the country on Monday seeking the nullification of the results of an upper house election, which saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition win a landslide victory.
As we enter the final nine percent of election results to be transmitted, Camarines Sur representative and Liberal Party bet Leni Robredo has increased her lead over Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by 185,173 votes in the vice presidential race.
Davao city mayor Rodrigo Duterte has won the 2016 Philippine presidential election, according to an unofficial and partial tally of votes cast as of 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.
K Muralidharan Pillai, the candidate for Singapore's ruling party People's Action Party (PAP), won the by-election for Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency (SMC) with 61.2 percent of the votes, according to results of the polls by Elections Department of Singapore (ELD).
The latest poll showed far-right Freedom Party (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer has won the first round of the Austrian presidential election on Sunday.
Myanmar's President-elect U Htin Kyaw has said that his election as new president of Myanmar is a victory of the people, local media reported Wednesday.
FIFA's member associations Friday elected Gianni Infantino to succeed Sepp Blatter as the new President of FIFA since 1998.
Portuguese Social Democratic Party candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa garnered more than 50 percent of the votes in the Portuguese Presidential elections on Sunday, local TV channels reported, citing preliminary results of the elections.
The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs authority has reiterated the importance of adhering to the 1992 Consensus after Tsai Ing-wen, candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was elected Taiwan leader on Saturday.
Myanmar's general election ended peacefully in the whole country in overall Sunday afternoon.
Greece's Radical Left SYRIZA party celebrated its second victory in general polls in eight months on Sunday night, and was set to return in office with its Right-wing former junior coalition partner, the Independent Greeks (ANEL), promising to "continue the battle for Greek people's rights in Greece and abroad."
The Myanmar government will make all its efforts to ensure that the Nov. 8 general election will be free and fair, Myanmar President U Thein Sein said on Tuesday.
Spurs forward Tim Duncan was honored as the 2014-15 Teammate of the Year Award on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka's ruling United National Front (UNF) secured a clean win over the opposition United People' s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the parliamentary polls held in the island nation on Monday.
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