TEHRAN, August 15 - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach narrowly defeated Gov. Jeff Colyer to claim the state's Republican nomination for governor Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 14 -Ahn Hee-jeong, former governor of South Korea's South Chungcheong Province, has been found not guilty on sexually assaulting his secretary, a Seoul court ruled on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, July 25 - Iran has got a new central bank governor as the country is struggling to check a steep depreciation of the rial and root out a series of irregularities in its banking system.
TEHRAN, June 20 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a political opponent of U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that the state would sue the Trump administration for separating children of immigrants from their parents when apprehended illegally crossing the U.S. border.
TEHRAN, January 30 -The Republican Governors Association (RGA) says it is returning $100,000 out of millions in donations it received from billionaire Steve Wynn in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct allegations against the casino mogul.
TEHRAN, October 29 -Wisconsin has become the latest US state to target the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, amid an ostensible crackdown on the activism.
TEHRAN, October 27 -A newly-elected Venezuelan governor affiliated with the opposition who had refused to pledge allegiance to a government body has been sacked.
TEHRAN, October 3- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose new political party poses a growing threat in elections later this month, has denied speculation that she would run, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday welcomed the election of a conservative governor of Tokyo in a result analysts say will help boost Abe's economic reform agenda and reinforce his drive to restart Japan's nuclear reactors.
Voters in Tokyo went to the polls Sunday to elect a new governor in a race that was being closely watched as a popular verdict on the use of nuclear power.