Federal courts have rejected the Justice Department’s request to set aside about 20,000 California ballots it links to suspected noncitizens. The department has also asked Washington state to hold back ballots from more than 400 people.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will leave her post on February 7, 2027, about nine months before her term ends. The ECB gave no reason; the timing lets EU leaders choose her successor before France's presidential election in April.
A leaderless, student-backed list has won Serbia's parliamentary election, held on Sunday, October 25, and Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat. The results are provisional.
The Nepali Congress's newly elected central working committee will meet for the first time on Friday, a day after its office bearers and members are sworn in at the party's Sanepa office.
As parties begin early work for local elections that may be held in Falgun (mid-February to mid-March 2027), former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has warned against moves to topple the government.
At least 68 people were killed when a high-speed train hit the back of a stopped train near Urda in central Spain on Wednesday, the regional government said.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll puts President Donald Trump's approval at 32% ahead of the November 3 midterms, which are on track to be the most expensive in US history.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been re-elected as Brazil's president, securing a narrow victory over Flávio Bolsonaro in a race marked by electoral disputes.
RSP lawmaker Ganesh Parajuli secured the chair of a 15-member parliamentary special committee investigating the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster and Himalayan climate change with cross-party backing.
Former lawmaker Ghanendra Basnet and Rastriya Janamorcha treasurer Madhu Kumar Chhetri passed away on Wednesday following prolonged battles with cancer.
The House Public Accounts Committee has set up a nine-member subcommittee led by Manish Jha to examine allegations of financial irregularities in procuring uniforms for election police.
Two Indian election commissioners objected 14 times to unilateral decisions by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar as a contentious drive purged over 130 million voter names.
Nepal's non-establishment parties are stepping up internal activities this weekend, with the RSP preparing election machinery, the AJP drafting protest plans, and the RPP completing conventions in 74 districts.
A deep factional split has pushed the Nepali Congress toward parallel general conventions, with rival groups led by Gagan Kumar Thapa and Sher Bahadur Deuba preparing separate assemblies.
Former Gandaki provincial minister Rajiv Gurung, known as Deepak Manange, has joined the Nepali Congress, while local units in Kaski witness sharp intra-party rivalries during regional convention voting.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi during a surprise trip ahead of Israel's parliamentary elections.
Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania cast ballots in regional elections that could jeopardize the leadership of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz following surging far-right support.
A massive Ukrainian drone and missile barrage struck the Moscow region on the final day of Russian parliamentary elections, hitting an oil refinery and killing at least two people amid retaliatory strikes in Ukraine.
