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Iraq’s top court has approved results of May 12 elections after manual nation-wide recount following the emergence of fraud allegations which nearly robbed Shia Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc of its victory. “The Federal Supreme Court issued on the afternoon of Read more
Libyan rival fractions agreed on a roadmap leading to parliamentary and presidential elections on Dec. 10. The agreement was reached Tuesday during a meeting in Paris. Years of mediation by the United Nations, as well as Italy, have failed to Read more
France and Egypt have thrown support behind UN-proposed elections scheduled for this year as they note that the stability of the oil and but conflict-torn country is a necessity of the region. President AbdelFattah al-Sisi received Sunday French top diplomat Read more
Rival Palestinian political groups agreed Wednesday in Cairo to hold by the end of next year elections as a way to cement reconciliation between the different factions. The factions had been in Egyptian capital since Tuesday to continue talks for Read more
Iran’s incumbent President Hassan Rouhani has been announced winner of Friday elections by the state television after count of half of the 40 million votes cast. The 68-year old President won 58.6 per cent of the votes against 39.8 per Read more
Presidential hopeful and former Senator Hillary Clinton in an emerging and never played tape has regretted the US had pushed for elections in Palestinian territories in 2006 and had not prevented Hamas to win, US media The Observer reports. Targeted Read more
US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the White House has a “plan B” if the ceasefire expected to begin on Saturday in Syria fails. An agreement was reached between the US and Russia Read more
As the elections for the FIFA presidency draw closer, candidate Jerome Champagne stated that Qatar would be stripped off the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and it would be passed to the US without any new voting. Read more
A day after Canada’s foreign minister Stephane Dion stated that “unilateral actions such as Palestinian initiatives toward statehood in international forums and continued Israeli settlements, are unhelpful and constitute serious obstacles to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace”, his Read more
Protesters that gathered on Saturday near Ankara’s main train station for a peaceful rally organized by several workers’ unions and other groups for increased democracy and an end to the violence between the Kurdish rebels and Turkey’s forces witnessed violence Read more