Iranians are flocking to stylish cafes in the capital, as they look for respite from soaring inflation and the specter of renewed war with the U.S. “Cafes offer a chance to unwind, to escape the stress of exorbitant prices, war and anxiety-inducing news,” said Mitra Alipour, celebrating her birthday at a coffee shop in Tehran….
Michigan’s closely contested Senate race and voter concerns over the economy are putting Donald Trump’s control of Washington to the test. Al Jazeera’s Mikail Malik spoke to voters in Brighton about the issues driving their vote and the stakes for control of Congress. Published On 3 Nov 20263 Nov 2026 Share Michigan voters face crucial…
Trump attacks Muslim politicians Abdul El-Sayed and Ilhan Omar in his two last rallies on the campaign trail. United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on Islamophobic rhetoric and conspiracy theories about the Democratic Party at campaign events in Iowa and Kansas, days before the US votes in crucial midterm elections that will decide…
A new court filing has cast further doubt on the accuracy of a list of “likely non-citizen” voters that the administration of United States President Donald Trump sent to the state of California ahead of the midterm elections. On Saturday, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), an advocacy group, submitted an analysis to the…
Vatican confirms the pope submitted a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of November 3 midterm elections Pope Leo XIV has become the first pontiff to vote in a United States general election after casting a mail-in ballot in Chicago, where he was born. The Vatican confirmed on Friday that the pope submitted a…
Nobel Peace Prize winner returns to Venezuela from exile, pressing for elections and criticising a controversial US oil deal with Caracas. Published On 30 Oct 202630 Oct 2026 Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has thanked US President Donald Trump’s administration for opening the “floodgate to freedom” by abducting President Nicolas Maduro in January. The…
IEC chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo. The Electoral Commission (IEC) has opened its hi-tech national operations centre ahead of the 4 November municipal elections. Housed at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, the National Results Operations Centre (ROC) serves as the primary management hub for electoral operations and the central hub for result dissemination via portals…
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian-Israeli voters of ‘stealing’ the election after their parties won a record 19 seats. With all votes now counted, the main opposition bloc could join forces with Palestinian-Israeli parties to unseat Netanyahu. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports. Published On 29 Oct 202629 Oct 2026 Share Netanyahu attacks Palestinian-Israeli parties as…
LUBBOCK, Texas — On the day a sitting president landed in their town for the first time in 34 years, people waited for hours in lines that stretched for blocks in this reliably red city. But this crowd on the east side of the city wasn’t waiting for President Donald Trump. They wanted to see…
Exit polls from Israel’s election show a neck-and-neck race between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, with neither likely to secure a clear path to a governing majority. Tuesday’s vote was largely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s leadership and response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and the…
