Belarus has announced that the next presidential election will be held on August 9 as the country’s authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka sought to play down the risks of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Peter Mutharika, whose win in last year's vote was challenged, had appealed the re-run, which is now to be held July 2

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The carrier strike group is expected to be deployed in the US Central Command region, where the US Navy currently has no aircraft carrier stationed.

The landslide reelection of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen was in many ways a referendum on how Taiwan manages its relationship with China. Brookings Senior Fellow Richard Bush explains why Taiwan's electorate preferred President Tsai's cautious approach, how other domestic political and economic factors weighed in her favor, and possible lessons from this election on combating…

On April 17, Indonesians will go to the polls to vote in the country’s fifth general election since 1998 when their country’s transition to democratic rule began. Once again, the upcoming election will be a match-up between the two men who ran against each other five years ago: incumbent President Joko Widodo (commonly called Jokowi)…

My thanks for the hosts and organizers of this conference. Many of you have heard other American speakers talk about our election this morning—Vice President Cheney, Wendy Sherman, and David Rubenstein. As we open our afternoon session, let me offer some historical perspective. American presidential campaigns are, in a sense, like the Olympics: they happen […]

As the nation’s economy continues a slow and difficult recovery, climate change has so far received little attention on the presidential campaign trail. With the world’s carbon footprint soaring and America approaching an energy crossroads, however, the next president will be forced to make critical decisions regarding clean energy and the future of fossil fuels…

For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event

As the coronavirus dominates the news, it's easy to forget that a presidential election is six months away. Since 1990, here is how stocks have done in election run-up periods.

Poland's governing parties said on Wednesday they had agreed to postpone the country's May 10 presidential election after a failed attempt to hold it via a postal vote due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Poland's parliament on Thursday passed legislation paving the way for a presidential election delayed by the coronavirus pandemic to go ahead via a postal ballot, a move the opposition said jeopardised democracy.

But the probability is unlikely despite the devastating effect superstorm Sandy had on 60 million people across the north-east, or one-sixth of the population.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied interfering in the U.S. elections, and he did it by using the famous 'Read my lips' quote by George H.W. Bush, although saying it was Reagan's.

Watch Marco Rubio as a robot, Hillary Clinton become an assassin for Goldman-Sachs and Donald Trump be a tricky fighter in 'The Debateful Eight,' a short animated Simpsons skit.

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to expanded absentee balloting and a rethink of how Americans vote in November to avoid delaying the contest due to coronavirus concerns.

A police officer and several election officials were struck and three are in a critical condition at a hospital in Kandahar. The upsurge in violence began after Taliban talks with the US broke down.

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