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Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate "within days" if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election.

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest around Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has sharply intensified — particularly regarding their alleged role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

Zohran Mamdani met Donald Trump in the White House this evening after winning New York’s mayoral election earlier this month.

A crowd rushes in panic down a dusty street. Gunshots sound. A woman in a purple jacket holding a stick collapses to the ground.

In Tanzania, a nation friendly to Russia, large-scale protests broke out on the day of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Donald Trump has given his opinion on whether he will campaign for President again after previously mentioning he’d run for a third term if he could.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has issued a warning that Russia intends to meddle in the country’s forthcoming parliamentary elections in September by employing disinformation campaigns, secret funding, and paid demonstrations.

Two weeks ago, Riga elected a new city council. While populist and pro-Russian parties did not win a majority and no foreign interference was detected, the results still raise concern.

A conservative historian inspired by Trump has won Poland’s presidential election.

According to the exit poll conducted by Ipsos for TVP, TVN, and Polsat, the candidate of the "Civic Coalition" (KO), Rafał Trzaskowski, is leading in the first round of the presidential election in Poland with 30.8% of the vote.

Bucharest mayor Dan effectively leads Romania’s presidential race

A Reform UK councillor has resigned less than two weeks after his election due to shocking comments he had previously posted about migrants and channel crossings.

Marcel Ciolacu resigns after the coalition candidate fails to advance to the run-off against nationalist George Simion

Irish election laws place no restrictions on MMA fighter Conor McGregor’s bid for the presidency. The laws only specify age and citizenship requirements, with no mention of a criminal record.

During the presidential ’elections’ in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko’s pet, a Spitz named Umka, ’marked’ the polling station.

Ex-S&D politician is charged with participating in a criminal organization, more than two years after the corruption scandal broke.

After Elon Musk’s call for him to be ousted, Britain’s prime minister reveals his thinking on the next election date and vows to complete a full second term in No. 10.

In Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections, the decisive factor in the ruling Georgian Dream party’s victory was the use of “carousels”: a method of vote rigging in which voters cast their ballots at more than one polling station.

The European Commission has opened an investigation against TikTok for facilitating interference in Romania’s 2024 presidential elections.

Out of 174 seats in the November election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%

Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference, which reportedly helped far-right candidate Călin Georgescu emerge as a surprising frontrunner.

Rivals claim Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ‘becoming one party’ with voters under-34 increasingly backing Sinn Féin

Călin Georgescu, a critic of Nato, says people have ‘cried out for peace’ after he heads into runoff with 22.9% of vote