TEHRAN, July 25 - It's election day in Pakistan. Polls have opened as hundreds of thousands of troops are deployed to secure an election , which is said to be the most consequential one that would lead to a rare democratic transition of power in the country's 71-year history.
TEHRAN, July 24 - 5Zimbabwean factory manager Sifelani Jabangwe is a survivor of the Mugabe years, overseeing a company that stayed in business through hyperinflation, the national currency being abandoned and an exodus of investors.
TEHRAN, July 23 - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Libya on Monday to push a Paris deal which paves the way for election s in the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, July 23 - On July 25, Pakistanis will head to the polls for the country's second-ever democratic transition of power. There are dozens of parties in the fray, with two main contenders: ex-cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which vows to win a second term despite the jailing of founder, ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on a corruption conviction.
TEHRAN, July 22 - A suicide bombing on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan killed a candidate running for a seat in the provincial assembly and his driver, and wounded three other people, police said.
TEHRAN, July 22 -In June last year, Khoeun Virath was elected as a commune councillor in the capital of Cambodia, but months later his political party was banned and most of its leadership fled into exile - so now he works as a tuk-tuk driver to make ends meet.
TEHRAN, July 19 - President Donald Trump said in an interview with CBS News that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States won't tolerate election interference in the future.
TEHRAN, July 16 - Pakistani police have opened criminal cases against nearly 17,000 members of the former ruling party of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), over breaking election rules ahead of the July 25 polls.
TEHRAN, July 16 - Gunmen shot dead 14 civilians in an attack on a village in northeastern Mali, a local official said on Monday, amid a spate of killings by rival ethnic groups and extremist militants that threatens to derail a presidential election later this month.
TEHRAN, July 16 - Support for Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at a two-year high, an opinion poll showed on Monday, a boost for the center-right government ahead of a series of by- election s at the end of July.
TEHRAN, July 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re- election in 2020 because "everybody wants me to" and there are no Democratic candidates who could defeat him, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.
TEHRAN, July 15 -Turkey issued presidential decrees on Sunday reshaping key political, military and bureaucratic institutions as part of the transformation to a powerful executive presidency triggered by last month's election .
TEHRAN, July 12 - Ayatullah Makarem Shirazi prominent Marja in Iran insisted on Shias voting, said: all Pakistani Shias should take part in the election .
TEHRAN, July 09 - Pakistan's opposition leader and former cricket star who has set his hopes on becoming the country's next prime minister unveiled Monday his party's 'manifesto' ahead of this month's parliamentary election s.
TEHRAN, July 03 - Iraq has begun a manual recount related to the parliamentary election s of May with authorities hoping the move could finally pave the way for the formation of a new government.
TEHRAN, July 01 - US White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he discussed concerns about Russian meddling in U.S. election s with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said his government did not interfere in the 2016 presidential vote.
TEHRAN, July 01 - Mexicans vote Sunday in a potentially transformative election that could put in power a firebrand vowing to end politics and business as usual in a country weary of spiraling violence, unchecked corruption and scandal-plagued politicians.
TEHRAN, June 27 -Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday said 50,000 observers, including some from China, Myanmar and Singapore, will monitor a general election next month, which is widely expected to be a landslide victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen after the main opposition party was dissolved last year.
TEHRAN, June 25 - International observers have denounced the lack of "equal" conditions for candidates to campaign in Turkey's twin presidential and parliamentary election s that were swept by incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party.
TEHRAN, June 25 - Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate him on his election victory, and the two leaders discussed deepening and improving bilateral ties in the phone call, a Turkish presidential source said.