The German parliament convenes for its last regular session before the general election. Michael Kappeler | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Germans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the 2025 federal election, which is all but guaranteed to result in a new chancellor taking over from Olaf Scholz to lead Europe’s largest…
Production at the VW plant in Emden. Sina Schuldt | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The struggling German economy has been a major talking point among critics of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ government during the latest election campaign — but analysts warn a new leadership might not turn these tides. As voters prepare to head to…
Ione Wells South America correspondent Reuters The campaign was dominated by the incumbent, Daniel Noboa’s hard-line approach to Ecuador’s violent drug gangs Ecuador’s presidential election will go to a second round after a closely contested first-round result failed to produce an outright winner. The electoral authorities called it a “technical tie” after the incumbent centre-right…
Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has secured another victory in an election labelled by Western governments as a sham. The Central Election Committee stated on Monday that Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote and that turnout was almost 87%. There were four other names on the ballot – carefully chosen to present no challenge to…
Getty Images Trump is accused of inspiring violence on 6 January 2021 – but prosecutors stopped short of charging him with incitement Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat are laid out in a final report by the special counsel who spent two years investigating him. Much of what is in its…
President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results if he hadn’t been elected, according to a Department of Justice report released to Congress. “The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith said. The 137-page…
Germany’s far right is in a buoyant mood. On Saturday, while its conference was under way in the eastern city of Riesa, in Saxony, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close Germany’s borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in effect, dismantle the EU. German media reported that party’s agreed manifesto includes plans to…
A federal district judge found Rudolph W. Giuliani in contempt of court on Friday for continuing to defame two Georgia women after the 2020 election. In May, Mr. Giuliani agreed to stop repeating lies about the women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother-daughter team of election workers in Fulton County, Ga., during the 2020…
US President Joe Biden has said he thinks he would have defeated Donald Trump and won re-election in November. Speaking to USA Today in an exclusive interview, Biden did, however, add that he was unsure if he would have had the stamina for another four-year term. “So far, so good,” the 82-year-old said. “But who…
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial in Paris, accused of taking millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election campaign. In exchange, the prosecution alleges Sarkozy promised to help Gaddafi combat his reputation as a pariah with Western countries. Sarkozy, 69,…
