ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria’s Constitutional Council has announced that Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won a second five-year term as president. Constitutional Council President Omar Belhadj announced the final results on national television, confirming Tebboune’s decisive victory with an absolute majority, securing 84.30% of the vot...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump has said that “getting along” with North Korea and Russia is “a good thing.” At a Pennsylvania rally, he referred to remarks by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris that, unlike Trump, she would not “cozy up to ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Senator Peter Welch on Wednesday became the first Democratic senator to call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race after his poor performance in his first debate with Donald Trump last month. “We cannot unsee President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. We cannot ignore or dismiss the...
Washington, United States — AFP Democrats shocked by Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance have urged the US president to be transparent about his mental fitness as he faced the first call from his own side to drop out of the election. Some supporters have expressed growing doubts about the 81-year-old over last week’s televi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for high participation in the forthcoming snap presidential election, saying it “silences enemies.” Speaking to a gathering from different provinces in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said public participation in the election “brings...
KAGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad’s Constitutional Council has confirmed transitional President Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby as the winner of the May 6 presidential election. Deby garnered 61% of the vote compared to his main challenger, Prime Minister Succes Masra, who won 18.54%, according to final results announced by Constitutional Counci...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP Eighteen men and one woman are in the running on Sunday to become Senegal’s fifth president and replace Macky Sall, who has held the top job since 2012. Sall is not seeking a third term, making this the first time the West African nation will head to the polls without an […]
Jakarta, Indonesia — AFP In an upscale area of the capital Jakarta, Ganjar Pranowo says he can win Indonesia’s upcoming election against the odds by focusing on bread-and-butter issues, a lesson learned from his upbringing in a mountainside village. “Siding with the small… the poor. Why do I say that? Because I myself e...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt’s incumbent President Retired General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was reelected to a third, six-year term in office till 2023, the country’s electoral commission announced on Monday. Commission chief Hazem Badawy said 44.7 million Egyptians cast ballots during last week’s presidential elections, out of 67.3 million elig...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will seek reelection in March 2024, a move that could win him an unprecedented fifth term in office. “I won’t hide how at different times I had different thoughts. But now is the time when you need to make a decision. I will run […]