Tag: Politics

PATNA, June 10 — The upcoming Bankipur by-election in Patna has emerged as a critical test for Prashant Kishor, the once-vaunted election strategist turned politician,...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is weighing a diplomatic swing through three European capitals next week, with London, Rome and Paris on the itinerary sta

The Albanian constitutional court’s ruling against the government’s TikTok ban is not a clean victory for free expression. It is a ruling born of a specific tra

Japan's House of Representatives has reappointed Sanae Takaichi as prime minister, extending her tenure as the country's first female leader. The vote came afte

The 2026 Bangladeshi general election was never going to be normal. Not after July 2024. That month, a popular uprising ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year grip on po

A tragic incident occurred on January 28, 2026, at Baramati Airport in Pune district, Maharashtra, India, when a Learjet 45 aircraft crashed and exploded, resul

TikTok's US operations have officially been overseen by a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, as of January 15, 2026. This development marks a...

Protests have erupted across Honduras as supporters of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation party, also known as Libre, take to the streets to demand the annulme

The 60-day countdown is on. Come 11 August, East Timor will no longer be a supplicant at ASEAN’s door. It will be inside the room, bound by more than 650 region

Police in Phnom Penh arrested several opposition activists on September 5, 2024, as Hun Manet faced the first major public protest of his political career. The

Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is out. Karol Nawrocki, the right-wing populist who heads the Institute of National Remembrance, is in. The second-round tally wa

The 2025 German federal election is underway, with voters heading to the polls on February 23, 2025, in a snap election that has drawn significant...

On January 20, 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14155, titled "Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization". This executive...

The international organization of world economies, BRICS, has undergone significant expansion in recent years, with its member states growing to include a diverse range of...

The machinery of American government is now turning toward a single date: January 9, 2025. That is the day President Joe Biden has declared a national day of mo

South Korea's democratic institutions are in uncharted territory this morning. President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law declaration, issued at 22:27 on December 3,

Romania now faces a runoff election that nobody predicted six months ago. The first round, held 24 November 2024, delivered a shock: Călin Georgescu, an indepen

The United States held its presidential election on November 5, 2024, resulting in the Republican ticket of former president Donald Trump and Ohio junior senator...

Virginia handed Kamala Harris its 13 electoral votes on November 5, but the real story is buried in the margins. Harris took 51.82% of the vote. That 5.76-point

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have left Australia, and the country is reckoning with what their departure means. The 2024 royal tour ended on 23 October, w

The Sandiganbayan courtroom in the Philippines has been a stage for high-stakes political drama for over a decade. On October 4, 2024, that drama reached a deci

King Abdullah II of Jordan has approved the resignation of Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, marking a significant shift in the country's leadership. The move, a

The Rupture of a 16-Year Grip Bangladesh’s political landscape is now a wreckage site. The July Uprising of 2024 did what elections could not: it broke Sheikh

On August 11, 2024, Paul Kagame was sworn in for a fourth term as the president of Rwanda, marking a significant milestone in the country's political landscape.