Iraq said Tuesday that it will hold long-awaited provincial elections on Jan. 31, a step forward for U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation even though...

Iraq says it will hold long awaited provincial elections on Jan. 31. They will be the first provincial elections since 2005, when Iraq’s insurgency was far...

Large crowds voted in some towns in Indian Kashmir on Monday while protesters clashed with police in others as state elections began amid boycott calls by Muslim...

Nicaragua’s opposition party is promising to block debate on the national budget until the government reviews all disputed local elections.

Gone are the days when political parties in India fielded candidates who were perceived as people who would work selflessly for the welfare of the country and its...

Government opponents rejected a vote recount that on Thursday confirmed the ruling party’s candidate won a disputed race to become mayor of Nicaragua’s...

The Nicaraguan opposition is vowing to fight what it says are fraudulent election results.

Nicaragua’s main opposition party said local elections swept by President Daniel Ortega’s leftist Sandinistas were fraudulent and on Tuesday demanded an...

Voters in Nicaragua’s capital chose between a former world boxing champion and a Harvard-educated ex-finance minister Sunday in a mayoral election considered a...

World reaction to Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president:

European Union officials hailed Barack Obama’s election victory Wednesday as an opportunity to renew a tenuous trans-Atlantic relationship and join forces in...

Football’s Heath Shuler and Sam Wyche scored victories of a different sort Tuesday while basketball’s Kevin Johnson and boxing’s Joe Mesi were looking...

A world weary of eight years of George W. Bush was riveted Tuesday by the drama unfolding in the United States. Many were inspired by Barack Obama’s focus on...

The apparent master stroke by the maverick master politician Shri Lalu Prasad asking all the Bihar, MOS, MLAs to resign en mass in protest against the attack on...

When Sri Murtiningsi asked her third grade class what they wanted to be when they grew up, the answers ranged from doctors to a pilot. One curly haired boy raised his...

A veteran ruling party member was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday promising to continue the free-market policies of a government that greatly expanded...

Veteran diplomat Rupiah Banda was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an election forced by...

From Florida to California, they’re working hard on the upcoming election _ knocking on doors in ethnic neighborhoods, manning the phones in myriad languages and...

Early voting sites in North Carolina can stay open an extra four hours Saturday to help deal with record turnout, the state Board of Elections ruled Thursday.

Algeria’s president has announced plans for constitutional changes that will allow him to seek a third term in office.