TEHRAN, Feb 02 -South Africa’s radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will nationalize all mines by 2023 if elected this year, the party said in its election manifesto launched on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jan 22 -Britain’s opposition Labour Party has proposed an amendment to a parliamentary motion on the country’s withdrawal from the European Union which could pave the way for a second Brexit referendum.
TEHRAN, Jan 20 -A national general strike is the fastest way to end the ongoing government shutdown in the United States, an American political analyst says, as an impasse between Democrats and President Donald Trump over his border wall is about to enter the fifth week.
TEHRAN, December 10 - Allies of Armenia's new leader have won an overwhelming majority of seats in the country's early parliamentary election, according to preliminary results released Monday.
TEHRAN, December 03 - A far-right party has won seats in a Spanish regional parliament for the first time since the country returned to democracy following the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, results in Andalusia's election showed.
TEHRAN, November 21 -A powerful party in Ethiopia’s government accused authorities of arresting members of its ethnic group in a politically-driven crackdown - an unprecedented public charge exposing deep rifts at the heart of the ruling elite.
Massud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has secured the most seats in the semi-autonomous region's parliament, the local electoral commission says.
TEHRAN, September 30 -British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party is investigating a data breach which let members of the public log into a smartphone app as senior government ministers and view their personal details.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Angola's former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has handed his position as the leader of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (PMLA) party to incumbent President Joao Lourenco after more than four decades of political rule.
TEHRAN, September 05 -Paraguay says it will move its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv, reversing a May decision by former President Horacio Cartes to move the diplomatic site to Jerusalem al-Quds.
TEHRAN, August 26 - Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has announced he would run in his ruling party ’s leadership election, which could turn him into Japan’s longest-serving premier.
TEHRAN, July 22 - Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front party , refused to submit to police questioning last month as part of an EU funding inquiry, claiming immunity as a European Parliament lawmaker, his adviser said Sunday.
TEHRAN, July 18 -The UK Labour Party has adopted its own code of conduct which permits harsher criticism of Israel while also stating that "anti-Semitism is racism."
TEHRAN, May 7 -Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri says his party has lost a third of seats in the Sunday parliamentary elections, winning only 21 seats, down from the 33 it had been holding since the last time Lebanon elected a parliament in 2009.
TEHRAN, May 1 - Thousands of supporters of the Russian Communist Party (CPRF) marched through central Moscow to mark International Workers' Day on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, April 29 - Armenia's ruling party said on Sunday it would not stop protest leader Nikol Pashinyan becoming interim prime minister if all opposition factions in parliament support his candidacy.
TEHRAN, April 05 - Malaysian authorities ordered former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's political party to temporarily disband Thursday in a blow to the opposition ahead of expected general elections.
TEHRAN, November 19 - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has been fired as the leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party , less than a week after the military seized power in the African country, party sources say.
TEHRAN, November 18 - Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF party is reportedly planning an emergency meeting to dismiss the party leader and the country’s president, Robert Mugabe.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been re-elected as the head of the ruling Muslim League. The re-election was made possible after Parliament approved a controversial bill allowing a disqualified official to head the party .