Politics

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden go to the Midwestern United States on the last Friday before the presidential election. There, they campaign in key states where none of the candidates seems…

Former President Barack Obama will run for the first time this week in his former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign for the US presidential election. Obama is coming to Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday,…

More than 3.8 million Americans have already cast their votes in the presidential election through the mail. That's a significantly higher number than in the previous election in 2016. At that time, 75,000 voters had voted by mail,…

US President Donald Trump has encouraged voters in the state of North Carolina to vote twice: by mail and in person. This way, he says, they can check whether their vote has been counted. "Let them send it in and then vote," the…

According to local media, the Japanese ruling party LDP will probably hold a party election on 14 September to choose the successor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is resigning due to health problems but has announced that he will…

Left-wing radical Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in her short speech at the Democratic party congress that she supports Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate. She spoke for barely a minute and a half and was virtually the only…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has postponed the country's upcoming elections by four weeks. That decision was taken because of a new outbreak of the coronavirus in the country. Elections are now scheduled for October…

The British government has turned a blind eye to possible Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. This is reported by a British parliamentary committee when presenting a long-awaited 'Russia report'. The publication of the…

The Surinamese parliament meets on Monday for the election of the president and vice president. This will be a formality because it is already clear that the opposition parties have not proposed candidates. This means that VHP…

A second cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been elected leader of a small political party. Roman Putin hopes for seats in the parliamentary elections in Russia next year. Roman Putin, son of a cousin of the president,…