Malawians are voting in presidential and parliamentary elections, following a turbulent five years that has seen the economic crisis worsening in the southern African nation. President Lazarus Chakwera…
Read more Malawi votes for next president as cost-of-living bitesSALEM — On Sunday, Solidarity Rising and Salem artist Krystle Brown will host an afternoon of “art, community, and connection” at Forest River Park. The event is expected…
Read more ‘On The House!’ event explores housing, community impacts from Salem’s 1914 Great FireBERLIN — Germany’s socially liberal government is moving ahead with plans to ease the rules for obtaining citizenship in the European Union’s most populous country, a drive that…
Read more German government seeks to ease rules for naturalizationKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s election uncertainty deepened Tuesday after a political bloc refused to support either reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim or rival Malay nationalist Muhyiddin Yassin as…
Read more Spotlight on Malaysia’s king to resolve election stalemateKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysians began casting ballots Saturday in a tightly contested national election that will determine whether the country’s longest-ruling coalition can make a comeback after…
Read more Malaysians vote in elections as old party, reformers clashDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain said Saturday hackers targeted websites in the island kingdom just hours before a planned parliamentary election. The Interior Ministry did not identify…
Read more Bahrain says websites attacked before parliamentary electionISTANBUL — A Turkish court resumed the trial of Istanbul’s mayor Friday on charges of insulting members of Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Council, a case critics allege is an…
Read more Popular Istanbul mayor on trial, could face political banPARIS — European lawmaker Jordan Bardella replaced his mentor Marine Le Pen on Saturday at the helm of France’s leading far-right party, pledging to protect French civilization from…
Read more French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le PenLONDON — Observers of Britain’s governing structure can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through a succession of prime…
Read more EXPLAINER: Why the British public is not choosing its leaderSTOCKHOLM — The Swedish parliament on Monday elected Ulf Kristersson — the conservative Moderate Party leader — as prime minister at the head of a minority coalition that…
Read more Swedish Parliament elects conservative prime ministerROME — Italy’s Fascist past and its future governed by a party with neo-fascist roots came to an emotional head Thursday when a Holocaust survivor presided over the…
Read more Holocaust survivor opens Senate as far-right to govern ItalyPUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Malaysia’s 97-year-old former leader Mahathir Mohamad announced Tuesday he will defend his seat in the general elections expected next month, though he wouldn’t say whether…
Read more Malaysia’s Mahathir, 97, to run in general electionsSTOCKHOLM — A right-wing populist party that received the second-most votes in Sweden’s general election last month landed the chairmanships of four parliamentary committees Saturday and with it,…
Read more Sweden: Right-wing party get 4 chairmanships in parliamentHELSINKI — Polling stations opened Saturday in Latvia for a general election influenced by neighboring Russia’s attack on Ukraine, disintegration among the Baltic country’s sizable ethnic-Russian minority and…
Read more Latvian leader’s party expected to fare well in election
