TEHRAN, April 29 - Supporters of Armenia's protest leader Nikol Pashinyan rallied in the capital on Sunday, hoping that a massive show of force two days ahead of a key election will help propel the opposition leader to power.
TEHRAN, April 27 - Lebanese will have a first opportunity in nine years to vote in a general election on May 6 under new rules, expected to bring some changes to parliament but preserve a unity government combining its main political blocs.
TEHRAN, April 23 -The sectary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says his group seeks a clean and fair election as the Arab country gears up for a legislative vote in less than a fortnight.
TEHRAN, March 25 - Voting was underway in Turkmenistan Sunday in a parliamentary election which could indicate a path towards hereditary succession in the authoritarian, gas-rich former Soviet state.
TEHRAN, February 27 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said the failure of the US-backed United Nations Security Council resolution against Iran was yet another defeat for Washington over the past year.
TEHRAN, February 26 - The UN Security Council is to vote on two rival draft resolutions on Yemen after Russia proposed a measure to counter a UK motion against Iran over Houthi missiles.
TEHRAN, January 27 - One of Hong Kong's best-known democracy activists was banned Saturday from standing as lawmaker in upcoming elections, the latest blow to freedoms in the city.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Iran said the country’s positive vote to a resolution on the violation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been registered at the United Nations.
TEHRAN, December 25 - The Palestinian foreign ministry on Monday slammed as "shameful" Guatemala's decision to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds after the United States recognized the city as the ‘capital’ of Israel.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the US is moving towards ‘isolation’ because of its ‘unwise actions’.
TEHRAN, December 23 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the 35 countries, which abstained in the recent UN General Assembly Jerusalem vote , would have vote d in favor of the resolution had they not been under pressure.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Separatists looked set on Friday to regain power in Catalonia after vote rs rejected Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's attempt to neuter the independence movement to defuse Spain's biggest political crisis in decades.
TEHRAN, November 28 - A left-right coalition led by a flamboyant TV host took a surprise lead in the Honduran presidential election, initial results showed on Monday, upsetting forecasts that the crime-fighting, US allied incumbent would comfortably win.
TEHRAN, November 19 -Chileans vote for a new president on Sunday, with billionaire conservative Sebastian Pinera the favorite to win, although a crowded field of leftist challengers are likely to force a December runoff.
TEHRAN, October 29 -Early vote count suggests that Icelanders, angry over a string of political scandals, have ousted their centre-right government in national elections on Saturday.
TEHRAN, October 7 -Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Ankara intends to open a new border crossing with Iraq in cooperation with the central government in Baghdad after the Anatolian country closed the existing crossing in response to last week’s controversial referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 2 - The United Nations has called on Spanish authorities to launch a thorough and impartial investigation into the violence perpetrated during Catalonia's independence referendum.
TEHRAN, October 2 - Catalonia's regional government has announced that 90 percent of those who participated in an independence referendum banned by Spain’s central government choose to be separated from the country.
TEHRAN, September 27 -The Spanish government will deploy extra police forces at any polling stations that authorities in Catalonia manage to set up in Spain’s autonomous region to prevent people from voting a banned independence referendum.
TEHRAN, September 9 - The United States has formally requested the United Nations Security Council to vote on a draft resolution for the new sanctions against North Korea over its sixth and largest nuclear test.