TEHRAN, Jan 23 - Thailand will hold a general election to restore civilian rule on March 24, the election commission said on Wednesday, announcing a new date for the often postponed vote, which will be the first since a 2014 military coup.
TEHRAN, Jan 23 - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has voiced hope that the French people will not choose the party led by French President Emmanuel Macron in the EU election s.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - US President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has acknowledged that he paid a technology company to manipulate online polling data in favor of Trump before the 2016 presidential campaign.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - Facebook would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union before significant votes in the next few months, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Jan 13 - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) suggested on Sunday that Democratic Republic of Congo recount votes from a contested Dec. 30 presidential election that the runner-up says was rigged and which has sparked isolated violence across the country.
TEHRAN, Jan 10 - Supporters of Congo's president-elect celebrated an unlikely win on Thursday, but the runner-up denounced a fix and France, Belgium and the Catholic Church all cast doubt on the results.
TEHRAN, Jan 6 - Dozens of Thai activists on Sunday protested against a possible delay of a national election set for next month, the first such gathering since the military government lifted a ban on political activity imposed after a 2014 coup.
TEHRAN, December 31 - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday rejected opposition complaints of vote rigging and said people had gone to the polls enthusiastically in a largely peacefully general election that her ruling alliance swept with a landslide.
TEHRAN, December 30 - Bangladesh's Election Commission is investigating allegations of vote rigging coming from across the country on Sunday, a spokesman told Reuters, as polling for a general election marred by violence drew to a close.
TEHRAN, December 30 - People have started voting in the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid delays and reported disorganization.
TEHRAN, December 26 - Afghanistan's presidential election , initially scheduled for April, will be postponed for several months to allow time to fix technical problems that surfaced during October's parliamentary election s, officials said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, December 15 -A US state lawmaker from Washington is accused of violating election campaign finance laws to donate to an anti-Muslim group and promote his radio show on a conspiracy website associated with a far-right secessionist movement.
TEHRAN, December 11 -Thailand will hold a much-delayed general election on Feb. 24, 2019, the Election Commission said on Tuesday, after the junta lifted a ban on political activity it imposed after taking power in a coup in 2014.
TEHRAN, December 10 - Any allegations that Russia helped whip up anti-government protests in France are slanderous, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
TEHRAN, December 10 - Parliamentary election s held in Armenia this weekend respected fundamental freedoms and were characterized by genuine competition, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement on Monday.
TEHRAN, December 09 -US President Donald Trump may have committed an “impeachable offense,” a top Democrat says, amid reports of critical breakthroughs in a long-running investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with Russia.