Danish PM's party wins election, but no majority

Camille Bas Wohlert, Agence France-Presse Denmark's Social Democrats, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, finished first in Tuesday's general election but posted their weakest showing in more than 120...

Denmark votes in close election, outgoing PM tipped to win

Danish voters went to the polls on Tuesday in a general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after...

Danish PM bids for third term in general election

Denmark votes on Tuesday in a tight general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term after a campaign focused on domestic issues and set against tensions...

Left leads in Paris, far right eyes gains in local polls

A Socialist candidate was leading in Paris while the far right looked strong in several southern cities as projections arrived from first-round local elections Sunday, seen as a political...

Bolsonaro brand fuels Flavio's rise in election polls

Even Flavio Bolsonaro didn't seem to take his presidential candidacy very seriously when his father, Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, tapped him as a political heir from behind bars....

Nepal readies for pivotal post-uprising vote

Nepal set up polling centres on Wednesday for one of its most hotly contested elections since the end of civil war in 2006, six months after deadly anti-corruption protests...

Nepal’s new political hero a rapper and pop icon

Balen Shah is a rap musician and thousands of Nepalese youth hero-worship him. After bringing down the government of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, the young protesters wanted Shah...

Starmer finds himself in a great Green mess

The Gorton and Denton by-election looks to be one of the more consequential contests of its kind since the Second World War. “Seismic” is how the triumphant Greens describe...

Long journey

A clear victory for BNP in Bangladesh

The parliamentary election in Bangladesh after the violent political convulsion of July 2024 when then prime minister Hasina Wajed’s Awami League government was thrown out by people’s anger has...