Early FNC voting begins nationwide

VIDEO: Employees can leave workplace to take part in FNC elections

Early voting for the Federal National Council (FNC), elections kicked off in nine polling stations across the UAE on Tuesday morning, and will run until 3rd October. Official voting will begin...

Austrians vote with conservatives in lead

Austrians vote Sunday in snap elections, in which the conservatives look set to triumph but will have difficulties finding a partner to govern after a corruption scandal brought down their...

Taliban cut off his finger for voting, he defied them again

The Taliban cut off Safiullah Safi’s right forefinger for voting in 2014. That did not stop the businessman from doing it again. Safi’s act of defiance in Afghanistan’s 2019...

Taliban attacks, fraud charges mar Afghan presidential election

Afghanistan's presidential polls closed on Saturday amid fears that accusations of fraud and misconduct could overwhelm any election results, while insurgent attacks aimed at disrupting voting in the country's north...

Taliban attack northern city to stop voting

A provincial official in Afghanistan's north says insurgents firing mortars on the city of Kunduz are attempting to stop voting in national elections. Ghulam Rabani Rabani, a council member for...

Trudeau ‘deeply sorry’ for brownface photo taken at Arabian Nights-themed party

Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign moved to contain a growing scandal on Thursday, following the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a 2001 costume party....

Israel’s Arabs poised to gain new voice after tight election

Israel’s Arab coalition appears poised to emerge as the main opposition bloc following Tuesday’s election, a historic first that would grant a new platform to a long-marginalised minority. With...

Swearing as a campaign strategy has limitations

Benjamin Bergen, Tribune News Service Politicians have a long history of swearing. Surreptitious recordings of the White House during the Johnson and Nixon administrations in the 1960s and...

Saied and Karoui to contest Tunisia presidential runoff vote

Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Tuesday law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won the most votes in Sunday’s presidential election, beating veteran political leaders to advance...