Minister dismisses claim that the ride-sharing tech giant had provided text for FG's 2016 election manifesto

Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the fifth time in less than four years.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the namesake son of an ousted dictator, has been sworn in as Philippine president.

Some experts have even forecast that we could require as many as 17 new TDs to satisfy constitutional obligations.

French president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance is expected to keep its parliamentary majority after the first round of voting, according to projections on Sunday.

French residents are voting in a parliamentary election as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to secure his majority while under growing threat from a leftist coalition.

The early vote count in Sunday’s six-way presidential election in Colombia pointed toward a runoff in June, with leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro leading in a ballot held amid growing discontent over increasing inequality and inflation.

Colombians emerging from the coronavirus pandemic are voting for their next president, choosing from six candidates who all promise various degrees of change amid rising inequality, inflation, violence and a discontent with the status quo.

Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia has easily dispatched Donald Trump’s hand-picked challenger in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fuelled politics in a critical US swing state.

Slovenia’s president has formally appointed the leader of a liberal-green party that won last month’s election as the country’s new prime minister designate.

Australia’s new prime minister has been sworn into office ahead of a Tokyo summit with US President Joe Biden.

Australians awoke on Sunday to a new prime minister in Anthony Albanese, the centre-left Labour Party leader whose ascension to the nation’s top job from being raised in social housing by a single mother on a disability pension was said to reflect ...

Needing 76 seats in the lower Parliamentary chamber, the House of Representatives, to govern in its own right, Labor on Sunday afternoon was being called the winner in 71, with 67% of votes counted, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp

Australia’s centre-left Labour party has toppled the conservative government after almost a decade in power.

Australia’s prime minister conceded defeat after an election on Saturday that could deliver a minority government.

Minor parties and independents appeared to be taking votes from the major parties, which increases the likelihood of a hung parliament and a minority government

Vote counting has started in Australia’s election, which will decide whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government can defy the odds and rule for a fourth three-year term.

Australians will go to the polls on Saturday following a six-week campaign that has focused on pandemic-fuelled inflation, climate change and fears of a Chinese military outpost being established less than 1,200 miles off Australia’s shore.

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, while more than a dozen independents gained seats, according to final tally.

Somalia’s presidential vote is proceeding to a second round after the first round of voting did not produce a decisive winner.

Voter are at the polls in Lebanon to elect a new parliament against the backdrop of an economic meltdown that is transforming the country and low expectations that the ballot will significantly alter the political landscape.

Australia’s embattled prime minister has officially launched his conservative party’s campaign less than a week before elections, highlighting the nation’s early success in containing the pandemic and its strong economic recovery.

Allies of presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr are set to dominate both chambers of congress in the Philippines after the apparent triumph of the late dictator’s son in an election.

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appears to have been elected president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 “People Power” pro-democracy revolt that ousted his father. Mr Marcos Jr had more than 30.

The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos took a commanding lead in an unofficial vote count in the presidential election in the deeply divided Asian democracy.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr has refused to acknowledge human rights abuses and plunder during his father’s dictatorship and has appealed for national unity

Early voting is under way in Australia’s federal election, with the opposition party hoping the first ballots will reflect its lead over the government in opinion polls.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald accuses DUP of 'political posturing' on the protocol which will only cause suffering for families and workers as the cost of living soars

The new party order means Sinn Féin is entitled to nominate the next first minister

The US and Irish administrations have also urged parties to take the necessary steps to re-establish a powersharing executive

Sinn Féin became the first nationalist or republican party to become the largest in the Northern Ireland Assembly with 27 seats, ahead of the DUP on 25

Sinn Fein’s Padraig Delargy topped the poll with 20% of first preference votes while running mate Ciara Ferguson took a second seat for the party

Sinn Féin has swept aside many years of history and is on course to become the first nationalist or republican party to take the largest share of seats in a Northern Ireland Assembly election

Mary Lou McDonald: "We look forward to an Executive being established, I look forward to Michelle O’Neill being nominated as first minister and to have politics that delivers for people."

North Antrim saw a significant shift in power in the traditional DUP heartland, with Mervyn Storey losing the seat he had held since 2003.

Once derided as a metropolitan party whose support base was confined to greater Belfast and the surrounding areas, Alliance has now stretched its geographical reach into areas where seat gains had once not even been contemplated

Following a challenging election campaign, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson received a sizeable personal endorsement in his home constituency of Lagan Valley. Jeffrey polled more than 12,600 votes, more than 4,000 higher than any other candidate.

Declan Kearney from Sinn Féin said Northern Ireland needed to move forward with a “First Minister for all” after he topped the poll in the South Antrim constituency. He easily exceeded the 7,623 quota with 9,185 first preference votes.

The result in the Newry and Armagh constituency remained largely unchanged after all the votes were cast as Sinn Féin held on to three seats. It was a long wait, but by midnight on Friday all seats in the constituency were filled.

The DUP’s Edwin Poots has paid tribute to the late DUP MLA Christopher Stalford, after winning his Stormont seat back for the party.

It was early on Friday, as the first tallies and votes were counted, that SDLP figures privately conceded that hopes of a third MLA would not materialise in the face of a strong Sinn Féin performance

Asked about the possibility of her taking the first minister role, Michelle O'Neill said: 'It is very early to say, let’s get all the votes counted.'

Counting is set to continue into the early hours of Saturday

Simon Coveney said it could be months until an executive is formed in Northern Ireland after the Assembly election