A report details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election that he lost, with the Justice Department brought to the brink of chaos and top officials there and at the White House threatening to resign.

The two parties that emerged as the likely kingmakers from Germany’s election last month said they would hold talks about a possible new government under the leadership of the centre-left Social Democrats.

Newly retired boxing star Manny Pacquiao has filed his certificate of candidacy for the Philippine presidency.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks to bridge their differences and declared that they got off to a good start.

Germany’s newly-elected legislators are holding their first meetings as the main parties look to put together a new government and digest the results of an election that reduced outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc to its worst ever result.

The party that narrowly beat outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc was pushing for a quick agreement on a coalition government amid concerns that Europe’s biggest economy could experience weeks of uncertainty after an election that failed ...

Both Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, who pulled his party out of a years-long slump, and Armin Laschet, the candidate of Mrs Merkel’s party who saw his party’s fortunes decline in a troubled campaign, laid a claim to leading the next government

Election officials said early on Monday that a count of all 299 constituencies showed the Social Democrats won 25.9% of the vote, ahead of 24.1% for the Union bloc

The candidate for outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right Union bloc said his party would do “everything we can” to form a new government, despite facing what is expected to be its worst result since 1949.

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats were locked in a very close race with outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc in the country’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed.

Iceland has elected a female majority parliament, a watershed moment for gender equality in the island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains.

German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.

Germany’s political parties prepared to rally their supporters and win over undecided voters, two days before a national election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after 16 years in power.

Mr Trudeau’s Liberals were leading or elected in 156 seats – one less than they won 2019, and 14 short of the 170 needed for a majority in the House of Commons

Russia’s ruling party has retained its supermajority in parliament, cementing President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in elections that most opposition politicians were barred from and that were marred by multiple reports of violations.

Results from about 85% of the country’s polling stations gave the ruling United Russia party 49.7% of the vote for the 225 seats apportioned by party lists, according to the Central Election Commission

The election on Sunday lacked significant opposition presence after authorities declared organisations linked to imprisoned Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe, to be extremist

On the final campaign day of a tight election battle, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau warned that his Conservative opponents would weaken the nation’s battle against the pandemic and said Canadians need a government that follows science.

Norway’s Labour leader Jonas Gahr Stoere is to start coalition talks after the centre-left party beat the incumbent Conservatives in a general election.

Germany is seeing its first three-way contest for the chancellery, with the environmentalist Greens joining the country’s two traditional big parties in fielding a candidate for the top job.

Two politicians have formally declared their intentions to seek to become France’s first woman president in next year’s spring election.

Japan’s outspoken vaccinations minister, Taro Kono, is running to become head of the governing party and pledges to be reform-minded and get things done. Whoever holds that post is usually chosen to be prime minister.

The leaders of Canada’s opposition parties criticised prime minister Justin Trudeau for calling parliamentary elections during a pandemic, speaking during their second debate of the campaign.

Zambia’s veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency with more than 50% of the vote. Mr Hichilema was declared president–elect early Monday after getting more than 2.

Veteran Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema appears on the verge of clinching the southern African country’s presidency, with a commanding lead in votes.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has triggered an election as he seeks to capitalise on Canada being one of the most fully vaccinated countries in the world.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to the governor general’s residence on Sunday and is expected to dissolve Parliament and trigger an early election.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce on Sunday that he is calling a snap election for September 20, a source familiar with the plans told The Associated Press. Mr Trudeau is seeking to win the majority of seats in Parliament.

Zambians are voting in a tense election that the president and his main rival have said is a test of the southern African country’s reputation as a stable democracy. Polling began at more than 12,000 polling stations, including in prisons.

Rural teacher-turned-political novice Pedro Castillo became the winner of Peru’s presidential election after the country’s longest electoral count in 40 years. He defeated right-wing politiician Keiko Fujimori by just 44,000 votes.

Dispirited by repression, many Iranians will boycott tomorrow's poll, clearing the path to victory for the leading hardliner

A centre-right opposition party has finished top in Finland’s local elections, ahead of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s ruling Social Democratic Party. It was the first election for the popular young leader who took office 18 months ago.

Finland is holding local elections which are seen as a first test for its popular young Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who took office 18 months ago, shortly before the pandemic, and whose party is behind in the polls.

A rural teacher-turned-political novice and the daughter of an imprisoned former president disputed the lead in a tight race for Peru’s presidency in a run-off election as the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter the Andean country.

The figures released by Peru’s elections agency, the National Office of Electoral Processes, included almost all votes cast near the country’s electoral processing centres

Final results confirmed a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in the last German state election before a national vote in September.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives handily batted away a challenge from the far right in a state election that was seen as the last big test for Germany’s political parties before a national vote in September.

A restrictive voting bill in Texas failed to pass on Sunday night after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline.

The far-right ELAM party appears to have almost doubled its support in Cyprus’ parliamentary election, exit polls have showed.

Six months after Donald Trump’s defeat conspiracy theorists and backers of the former president are continuing their push for repeated examinations of ballots and finding limited successes.

Nepal’s president has dissolved parliament and announced fresh elections on the recommendation of the prime minister, who is heading a minority government and unlikely to secure a vote of confidence in the chamber.

Leo Varadkar said the EU digital green cert will be in place in June and that member states will have six weeks to adopt it

The hardline cleric in charge of Iran’s judiciary who also took part in a panel involved in the mass execution of thousands of prisoners in 1988 has registered to run for the country’s presidency.

Iran’s former firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will run again for office in upcoming elections in June, raising the possibility of a bolstered hardline leadership at a time of tense negotiations with the West.