Djibouti's president wins unprecedented sixth term with 97.8% of vote
Ismail Omar Guelleh, 78, has extended his already 27-year rule in a poll boycotted by the main opposition candidates.
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Vance heads to Budapest to shore up Orban’s support before Sunday vote | Politics News
United States Vice President JD Vance is travelling to Budapest to bolster support for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose Fidesz Party faces its most difficult election in over a decade. The White House announced last week that Vance would arrive in Hungary on Tuesday and hold two days of bilateral meetings. Recommended Stories list…
US House to vote on DHS funding as travel chaos deepens
The planned vote is unlikely to end the funding impasse as long security lines at US airports continue.
Africa: UN to Vote On Resolution Calling Slave Trade ‘Gravest Crime Against Humanity’
The United Nations General Assembly is due to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would designate the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move that supporters describe as both historic and essential to global healing. Backed strongly by African nations, the initiative at the UN seeks not only to…
Democrats plan to force Iran war powers vote next week
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffires (D-NY) speaks at a press conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Congressional Democrats will force a vote on a war powers resolution relating to Iran next week, Democratic leadership announced Thursday, as President Donald…
Nahid Islam and the uneasy alliance that could shape Bangladesh’s vote | Bangladesh Election 2026
Nahid Islam was just 26 when he stepped up to a microphone at Dhaka’s Shaheed Minar, a national monument, on August 3, 2024, and uttered a single rallying cry: “Hasina must go.” Student-led demonstrations had begun weeks earlier over a government job quota system that reserved a large share of coveted civil-service posts for special…
Clintons agree to testify on Epstein as vote looms to hold them in contempt of Congress
The couple bows to the House Oversight Committee’s demands after arguing for months that its subpoenas were invalid.
Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in House Epstein probe ahead of contempt vote
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Angel Ureña, a spokesperson for Bill Clinton, responded in a post Monday to a letter from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., saying the Clintons had “negotiated in good faith”…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she will vote against DHS funding
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that she will not vote for Department of Homeland Security funding after the latest fatal shooting of an American by a federal agent in Minneapolis. “When they’re killing two constituents in my state, and they’re taking two-year-olds out of…
Trump-backed candidate declared winner of Honduras’ presidential vote
Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, the country’s electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count. The election result has continued a swing to the right in parts of Latin America, just a week after Chile chose the far-right politician José Antonio Kast as its next president. Asfura, of the conservative National…