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Austria's Van der Bellen re-elected president: projections

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen has been re-elected, projections showed Sunday, on promises of stability.The projections showed the 78-year-old incumbent sw

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Republicans strip $35 insulin price cap from Democrats' bill -- but insist Senate rules are to blame

Nearly uniform Republican opposition in the Senate on Sunday stripped a proposed cap on insulin prices in private insurance from Democrats' party-line climate, health a

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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wins Somali presidential election

Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was re-elected as the 10th president of Somalia, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Farmajo in the third round of vote

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Voting begins in Philippine elections

Filipinos began voting on Monday morning to elect their next president and some 18,000 other officials at all levels of government.A total of 37,211 polling centers acr

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EU chief Von der Leyen in India to talk climate, trade and Ukraine

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in India on Sunday for a two-day trade, security and climate visit, during which she is also expected to disc

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Second round of presidential election starts in East Timor

East Timor on Tuesday holds the second and final round of its presidential election as voters choose between Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and incumbent p

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Macron holds first rally of France election campaign

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday held his first rally of the French election campaign.The first round of elections will be held on April 10, followed by a run-off

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Gabriel Boric inaugurated as youngest president of Chile

Gabriel Boric Font, 36, was inaugurated on Friday as Chile's youngest president.The leftist former student leader and legal and social sciences graduate from the Univer

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UN adopts resolution on emergency General Assembly session on Ukraine

The United Nations Security Council voted Sunday to hold a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to discuss Russia's military action in Ukraine.The mee

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Pelosi announces she is running for reelection

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday she is running for reelection."While we have made progress much more needs to be done to improve people’s lives. This elect

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Biden signs bill raising U.S. debt limit, averting default

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation temporarily raising the government's borrowing limit to $28.9 trillion, pushing off the deadline for debt defaul

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Biden signs bill raising U.S. debt limit, averting default

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation temporarily raising the government's borrowing limit to $28.9 trillion, pushing off the deadline for debt defaul

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Romanian government collapses in censure motion

Romania's coalition government led by Prime Minister Florin Citu collapsed on Tuesday after it lost a no-confidence vote initiated by the main opposition Social Democra

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Germany's SPD wins most votes in federal election

Germany's center-left Social Democrats narrowly defeated the Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union bloc to win the most votes, 25.7 percent, in the country'

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Newsom's team confident he'll beat recall attempt

Governor Gavin Newsom's team is supremely confident it has enough "No on recall" votes to keep Newsom in the statehouse."There's no scenario where we lose tomorrow," sa

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UN Security Council adopts resolution on Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution on Afghanistan after the Taliban's return to power, focusing on counter-terrorism and humanitari

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Watchdog sues FEC for closing investigation into Rick Scott, allied super PAC

A watchdog group on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for dismissing a complaint alleging that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) unlawfully used a super PAC to s