TEHRAN, May 28 -Pakistan on Monday appointed former chief justice Nasir-Ul-Mulk as interim prime minister until general elections on July 25 expected to usher in the second-ever democratic transition of power in the nuclear armed nation of 208 million people.
TEHRAN, May 27 - Former US first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton has warned that American democracy is in crisis and the country is headed towards authoritarianism, an apparent swipe President Donald Trump, whom she ran against in the 2016 presidential election.
TEHRAN, May 26 - President Donald Trump is suggesting that Democrats had an informant spy on his presidential campaign amid a US Justice Department's investigation into whether there was such an infiltration.
TEHRAN, May 23 - Lebanese lawmakers overwhelmingly re-elected the country's longtime parliament speaker to the post on Wednesday, giving the 80-year-old monopoly of the office for three decades now.
TEHRAN, May 22 -The top man in Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has officially apologized to lawmakers in the European Parliament for a large-scale leak of personal data which reportedly enabled a political consultancy to impact the results of the election in Britain and elsewhere.
TEHRAN, May 21 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi called on foreign sides to respect the vote of the Venezuelan people in the country's presidential election and support the establishment of political stability and economic development in Caracas.
TEHRAN, May 21 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi calls on foreign sides to respect the vote of the Venezuelan people in the country's presidential election and support the establishment of political stability and economic development in Caracas.
TEHRAN, May 20 -The United States government says it is not going to recognize the outcome of Venezuela's presidential election which will be held on Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 20 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the Shi'ite cleric's bloc was declared winner of Iraq's parliamentary election.
TEHRAN, May 19 - Iraq's electoral commission has announced the Sa'iroun (Marchers) political bloc, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's alliance with communists, as the winner of the country's parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, May 17 - US President Donald Trump has said a recent report saying the FBI under former President Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election could be "bigger than Watergate."
TEHRAN, May 14 - Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro held on to his lead in early polling ahead of the October election, with moderate Marina Silva in the runner-up position, according to a survey published on Monday.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's list appears to be leading in Iraq's parliamentary election, followed by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's alliance, an election commission source and a security official told Reuters on Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 13 - The electoral commission of Iraq has announced that 44.5 percent of those eligible to vote cast their ballots in Saturday's parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, May 12 - Iraqis head to the polls on Saturday for parliamentary elections with 329 members of parliament elected from party lists who will be tasked with forming a government and electing a prime minister and president.
TEHRAN, May 11 - Iraqis are heading to key parliamentary elections on Saturday in their first vote since the country declared victory over the Daesh terrorist group some five months ago.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and its allies will win a majority in the June 24 snap elections that would enable Ankara to switch to an executive presidency, the results of a new poll show.