Netanyahu fails for the second time this year to win a mandate for a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister

With near final result, Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling rightwing Likud party won 31 seats in Tuesday’s…

Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ election victory brings an end to Alexis Tsipras’ four years in office

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party regained power with a sweeping general election victory on July…

Congo inaugurates Felix Tshisekedi as the country’s next president

Congo’s constitutional court upheld the results of the elections on Sunday, ruling that Felix Tshisekedi…

Andry Rajoelina wins Madagascar’s presidential election

Madagascar’s December 19 presidential runoff was won by Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey, who…

Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s most divisive election since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985

Jair Bolsonaro defeated Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party, or the PT, in Brazil’s…

Bavaria’s conservative CSU loses an absolute majority in a state election

Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic…

A far-right nationalist Jair Bolsonaro is set to win power in Latin America’s largest economy

Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing former army captain, is set to win power in Brazil after…

The election leaves Swedish politics in limbo

Sweden’s ruling centre-left bloc won 144 seats in the 349-seat parliament in last week’s election…