
Bulgaria's center-right party wants vote canceled
Bulgaria's ex-prime minister says the results of last weekend's parliamentary election should be canceled due to "gross violations" of voting law.

Bulgarian center-right wins most of the votes
The center-right party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has fallen far short of winning a majority needed to form a government, according to ...

Exit polls: No clear winner in Bulgarian vote
Bulgaria's center-right party and its main challenger, the Socialists, finished first and second in Sunday's parliamentary election, with neither one ...

Bulgarians to elect new parliament amid scandals
Bulgarians voted Sunday in parliamentary elections with no party expected to win a majority to form a government, fueling fears of more political and ...

Chinese air their cases by petitioning White House
The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently re-emerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched the politically sensitive ...
NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote
Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here : voting. He'd lived through ...

Iran president still a force even as his era ends
When many struggling families in this eastern Iranian city take stock of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy, it's not about the oratory ...
A census first: Black voter turnout passes whites
Making history, America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly ...

Malaysian elections expose worrying social schisms
It was hardly the look of the victorious. Wearing a bright blue shirt and a grim expression, Prime Minister Najib Razak appeared before the media on ...

Violent separatists seek to derail Pakistan vote
The graffiti on walls around this Pakistani provincial capital hold a dire warning ahead of this weekend's national elections, "Voting means death.
Editor arrested after report claiming voter fraud
A journalist for an Iranian news website says its editor has been arrested after reporting that there is an audiotape of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
Zimbabwe PM's party: Voters' lists being inflated
Zimbabwean state election officials are dramatically inflating the numbers of electors on new voters' lists months ahead of crucial polls, Prime ...

Cameroon's ruling party wins Senate election
The party of Cameroon's entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election, the Supreme Court ...

Bhutan votes in 2nd ever parliamentary poll
People in the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan were cementing their young democracy Tuesday by voting in the nation's second parliamentary election.

Iraqis see some irregularities in provincial vote
Iraqi election monitors on Sunday reported multiple irregularities in the country's first provincial vote since U.S. troops left, but were unclear as ...

Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as ...
Montenegrin opposition rally, claim election fraud
More than 5,000 opposition supporters have rallied in Montenegro claiming their leader was cheated of victory in this month's presidential ballot in ...

Rough inauguration day for new Venezuelan leader
Inauguration day could have gone better for the man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years. Hours before President ...

Election council to audit vote in Venezuela
Government supporters began filling the streets of Venezuela's capital early Friday to celebrate the inauguration of their leader, even as opponents ...

Labor nominee Perez pledges open mind
Labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez sought to assure senators Thursday that he would approach the job with an open mind and a willingness to work ...

Options narrow for Venezuelan opposition
Venezuela's opposition watched its options dwindle Wednesday after the head of the Supreme Court said there could be no recount of the razor-thin ...

A glance at Kremlin's top foe, Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, an obscure adviser to a provincial governor just four years ago, shot up to become the Kremlin's public enemy No.1. The web-savvy ...

Hopes, fears as Zimbabwe marks 33rd birthday
The name of Zimbabwe's last white leader, who ceded power to Robert Mugabe 33 years ago and who died six years ago, has at last been removed from the ...

Letter to Miss. senator tests for ricin
An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, authorities said, heightening ...

Kenya Supreme Court: Election was not perfect
Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday said the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the ...