Russia’s beleaguered civil society suffered another setback on July 8 as the country’s leading independent election-monitoring group, Golos, announced it is shutting down after 25 years of operations.

Hungarians were shocked last week to learn that the chief of police in the southern city of Hodmezövasarhely had taken his own life. In the preceding days, he had been the target of personal attacks ...

MEXICO CITY, May 26 (Reuters) - Mexico's electoral authority is investigating complaints that political groups, including ruling party Morena, are trying to sway voters in the upcoming judicial ...

Curtis Sliwa, the beret-clad founder of the Guardian Angels, has been a fixture—if a bit of a sideshow act—in New York City politics for decades. Now he is wearing a different hat of sorts: potential ...

Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.” Now Japan’s ...

A controversial campaign to prematurely unseat dozens of opposition members of parliament has polarised Taiwan, triggering competing rallies and fierce debate over the future of its democracy.

PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - France's President Emmanuel Macron faced growing pressure on Tuesday to resign or hold a snap parliamentary election to end political chaos that has forced the resignation of ...

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson’s pronouncement this week that he wouldn’t pursue a new congressional map has set off a round of infighting in the state Democratic Party. But even in the face ...

Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister. In a country that ...