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Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was barred Friday from running for office again until 2030 after a panel of judges concluded that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.…

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister. With 91 percent of votes counted, center-right…

Abdel-Sanad Yamama, the leader of Egypt’s opposition Wafd Party, has been nominated to run in the upcoming presidential elections. The polls are scheduled for 2024 and Wafd is participating for the first time since 2011. Ninety…

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar called Friday for a unified government of technocrats to organize long-delayed elections, in place of the rival administrations currently vying for control. Libya has been torn by more than a…

Protesters vandalized the facades of several banks and set tires alight in a suburb about 8 km east of Beirut on Thursday, frustrated at being denied access to their money. The attacks targeted branches of Bank Audi, Bank of Beirut and…

Kuwait’s crown prince re-appointed Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah as prime minister and asked him to name a new Cabinet, Kuwait News Agency reported on Tuesday. The prime minister’s previous government resigned following parliamentary…

Lebanon’s MPs will try on Wednesday for the 12th time to elect a successor to Michel Aoun whose presidential term ended in October. Former ministers Suleiman Frangieh and Jihad Azour officially announced their candidacy for the…

The United Nations said Thursday it would work toward helping Libya’s rival factions agree on contested points preventing long-delayed presidential and legislative elections being held in the conflict-scarred nation. Early Wednesday,…

Former US vice president Mike Pence launched his presidential campaign Wednesday by framing the Republican nomination as a choice between “reckless” Donald Trump and the Constitution — arguing that his old boss’s bid to overturn the last…

Envoys of rival Libyan factions have agreed on the legal steps to hold much delayed presidential and legislative elections in the conflict-scarred nation, both sides said early on Wednesday. Election were due to be held in December 2021…