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Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting. Complete Story...
Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it will require uncontested candidates for its board of directors to win a majority among shareholder votes cast to be elected, instead of just a plurality.
Kosovo's first independent elections have ended peacefully, with the prime minister claiming his party won convincingly and some minority Serbs ignoring a call to boycott and casting ballots alongside ethnic Albanians.
The White House says that Republican wins in two governors' races were not referendums on the president.
Permit delays, lack of funds and security intimidation are obstructing international and local observers from monitoring registration for Sudan's first ever nationwide elections, former President Jimmy Carter's foundation said on Tuesday.
A long-delayed presidential election in Ivory Coast is being pushed back again.
Three incumbents and a former member were elected Thursday to the governing board of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association by the group's membership.
Did you hear the one about the best way to identify public officials in New Jersey? Check for the handcuff marks on their wrists.
Incumbent President Armando Guebuza leads in Mozambique's elections by a wide margin, with more than 80 percent of votes counted.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia was re-elected for a fifth term with 89 percent of the vote — his weakest performance yet, but more than enough to show his solid grip on the nation.
Russia's president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin's grip on power.
A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday, and his conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov. 29 runoff.
Ousted Philippines leader Joseph Estrada, convicted of plunder and later pardoned, publicly declared Wednesday his intention to run in next year's presidential elections despite legal challenges and immediate objections to the idea of his political comeback.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday his government would hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 24, regardless of whether it reaches a power-sharing deal with the rival militant Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip.
Niger's electoral commission says the ruling party has won a majority of votes in parliamentary elections.
Botswana's governing party, which has been in power for more than four decades, once again swept parliamentary elections that regional observers deemed free and fair, the country's independent electoral commission announced Sunday.
The pro-Kremlin party dominated an election for Moscow city council and other local votes across Russia, results released Monday showed.
An Armenian-American congressional challenger made false campaign statements with reckless disregard for the truth when he said an Ohio congresswoman took money from the Turkish government and Turkish government-sponsored interests, the Ohio Elections Commission found Thursday.
An Ohio congressional candidate defended statements he made about a state congresswoman, telling an election panel Thursday he had reason to believe she took money from Turkish government-sponsored interests in return for a denial that the country committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.
Germany's Social Democrats thought their election result would be bad — but not this bad.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to have a new center-right German government in place by the time Germany marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9. She said tax cuts were possible in 2011, but rejected spending cutbacks that might strangle an incipient economic recovery.
Socialist leader Jose Socrates, set for another four years as Portugal's prime minister after elections Sunday, has antagonized many — even inside his own party — with his determination to reform and modernize Portugal.
Socialist opposition leader George Papandreou, who is widely expected to win Greece's national election next weekend, says fighting endemic corruption and creating a stimulus package are essential if Greece is to emerge from a deep financial crisis.
Final results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a second term and a majority for a new center-right government in Germany's parliamentary election.
German political parties held their final campaign rallies before Sunday's national election, mindful of new warnings by Islamic militants that they would exact retribution for the country's presence in Afghanistan.
D.C. Hypocrisy Should Be A Four-letter Word In regard to the latest brouhaha over President Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan, former Vice President Richard Cheney now says that; "No leader of the United States should ever bow to another world leader". How quickly and conveniently he forgets?
The Consequences of "No"In the next few weeks, Congress will determine the fate of health care reform. An early and important objective of the Obama administration, reform once carried an air of inevitability.
What a Difference a Year MakesThe Democrats have more political power than they have had at any time since the presidency of LBJ.
Iran sentences 5 to death for post-election protestsIran said Tuesday that it has sentenced five people to death and another 81 to prison terms of 6 months to 15 years for their roles in the protests that followed the country's disputed presidential elections.
Dems alarmed as independents boltMounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage.
With no room for moderates, GOP's 'big tent' turning into a political coffinPoll numbers suggest Olympia Snowe's days are numbered. But if history is any guide, it might be the Republican Party -- not the Maine senator -- that is on its death bed.
Noynoy Aquino's Video: Not Another Murky Yellow Solidarity of the Bourgeoisie[Manila, Philippines] Hindi Ka Nag-Iisa Artist: Regine Velasquez Director: Onat Diaz Cast: Sharon Cuneta, Kris Aquino, Boy Abunda, Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid, Bea Alonzo, Dingdong Dantes, Marian Rivera, Ai-Ai delas Alas, Mariel Rodriguez, Bianca Gonzales, Erik Santos, J …
There is not a high priced ticket for this show. No high-priced special effects wowing us or touting "We've Been Warned." Instead, it has been handed to us under the presumption that we are a mindless bunch of Neanderthalers who have already been rendered instinct.
Iran condemns Oxford University over Neda scholarship - CNN.comIran condemns Oxford University over Neda scholarship
Islam Bashers RepentWhat does it take to make Islam bashers mend their ways? Why don't these folks come to their senses and see Islam as a religion of peace and praise the God of Abraham for continuing his beneficence on humanity by sending Muhammad to guide and humanize us? Well, just a few probl …
End the GOP's filibuster folly - Michael A. Cohen - POLITICO.comA year ago, Barack Obama was elected to bring change to America. But his efforts to transform Washington are being stymied by one of the capital's oldest of political traditions: the Senate filibuster.
A Birther Senator in California?The Washington Independent's David Weigel has a good profile today of Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who's running as the conservative candidate in the Republican primary next year, providing the right with an alternative to Carly Fiorina, who's seen as too moderate.
Phantom democracy in Afghanistan needs more victimsThe international coalition forces suffered new losses in Afghanistan. This time, the losses were caused by a NATO airstrike, not the Taliban.
We get it, really. There is only so much money the U.S. government has to spend, without either printing enough to devalue our currency horribly or cutting the supply too quickly and causing runaway inflation. Without taking down our economy pretty much permanently.
The Passion of the Right - GOP Resurgence in the Cards?In 354 days, the dead will rise. Or so believe Republicans. They believe that their suffering and forbearance in the face of an overzealous, hyperliberal left will culminate in a 2010 resurrection of the battered Republican brand. Case in point: After G.O.P.
Rand Paul, Are You Really a Republican? KY Wants to Know.Trey Grayson, Dr. Paul's main opponent in the G.O.P. primary is fond of saying that Paul's allegiance is more to his "libertarian donor base" than it is to the people of Kentucky and the G.O.P.
Teabagger DeMint to challenge McConnell for Senate GOP leadership?The sniping between the two Republican camps is less interesting than what they're sniping about: the possibility of a DeMint challenge to McConnell as Senate Republican leader. What, McConnell isn't crazy enough?
A strategy for getting health care through Congress by GARRISON KEILLORThere are some things we will never understand. Death, for one. I overheard a woman in the drugstore say, "He went in to the hospital yesterday and he was eating his supper and then he fell asleep and then he died. I don't get it."
FACT CHECK - Palin's Book Goes Rogue on Some FactsSarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.
Indian eunuchs given separate IDsIndia's Election Commission has given eunuchs an independent identity by letting them choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms.
Does Islam Breed Violence?There is a division of the house. On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us that the mass murderers such as Maj.
Although Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded to Democratic opponent Bill Owens on election night, and even though Owens has been sworn in by the House, the rumor is that this election may yet become contested.
Will Nader challenge Dodd?Nader's entry as a third party candidate would be terrible news for Dodd, who is hoping to energize his liberal base in possible match-ups against GOP challengers Rob Simmons and Linda McMahon, who lead him in public polls.
Connecticut Voters Down on DoddDodd's job approval has lagged behind his disapproval for more than a year, and polls since last spring have shown more people rating him unfavorably than favorably. "Dodd is sliding back down again on job approval.
Palestinian January elections cancelled Bowing to the inevitable, electoral officials conceded that presidential and parliamentary polls, meant to take place on Jan 24, could not be held until objections by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, are overcome.
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