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Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro threatens to slash ad buys with adversarial media groups

Committee includes 15 lawmakers each from the government and the Opposition parties

The political turmoil comes at a critical time for a Sri Lankan economy struggling with slow growth

Georgians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a figurehead president

Following Taliban threats to attack the ballot forces citizens to wait hours outside polling stations

Israeli PM maintains his innocence in several corruption cases

Official figures show nearly 170 people have been killed or wounded in scores of election-related attacks

Around three million Afghans voted on Saturday, election officials say

His lead seems insurmountable over his leftist rival Fernando Haddad ahead of the October 28 run-off

Deadly violence hinders preparations for Afghan parliamentary election with hundreds killed or wounded

Security forces placed on high alert

Polling centres opened at 7am across the war-torn country, with some 54,000 security forces deployed to protect them

Water shortage remains a major issue in the areas falling under PS-111 constituency

General Abdul Razeq, the Kandahar police commander, was killed outside the provincial governor's office on Thursday

New dataset released by micro-blogging platform reveal network of users peddling fake news for political gain

Due to hand over power next month

417 women candidates are contesting seats across the country

11 police were killed and 30 wounded when Taliban fighters attacked security checkpoints

Nearly nine million people have registered to vote in Afghanistan

No native American woman has ever served in the US House of Representatives

Former premier instructs candidates to remain in their respective RO offices till final results are announced

There was no immediate claim of responsibility

Some politicians say that the PTI government cannot even last for two years

Kabul voters will wrestle with newspaper-sized ballot papers on October 20

At least 15 Afghan border police were killed battling Taliban militants on Thursday

Nasheed was the country's first democratically-elected president but sentenced to 13 years in prison for terrorist

Survey has been conducted by Pakistan Alliance for Inclusive Elections (PAIE)

Iraq's PM designate launched a website on Tuesday to allow candidates to apply for a ministerial position online

'People are fed up, they want change'

The PTI government has to make its own choices to implement its vision of New Pakistan

Two sides discussed the possibility of forging some sort of cooperation in the crucial polls

A suicide bomber blew himself up at an election rally in Nangarhar, killing 13 and wounding over 30

Using the hashtag #EleNao, or #NotHim, to drum up support for a series of international protests against Bolsonaro

“I will tell you, he has suffered. The meanness, the anger,” says the US president

Rehman Malik says a Senate committee has already identified grey areas in 2018 election

Committee will have equal representation from the ruling party and opposition

Comes after plans for another meeting with American officials broke down over US demands for a three-month ceasefire

Beijing did not want Republican Party to do well because of trade stance, says US president

Marks the biggest margin of victory in any election since the advent of democracy in 2008 in the country

The Muslim-majority nation has become a theater of rivalry between its traditional partner, India, and China

Women representation on general seats in National Assembly drops to a historic low

On October 7, Brazil will go to the polls to choose a new president

It is going to serve as a command center so we can make real-time decisions as needed

O'Rourke is a congressman from El Paso and the Democratic challenger to Ted Cruz in November's Texas Senate race

Georgia is one of five states that use touchscreen machines with no paper record

A Hindu nationalist group behind the rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening up to critics

Party fears similar outcome in the by-polls if concerns are not timely addressed

Two rival parties will now contest a runoff on October 18

Voting began across government-controlled parts of Syria on Sunday

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Thursday issued list of its ticket holders for upcoming by-elections