Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

The committee, which is convened by the prime minister ahead of every contest, will relook Singapore’s electoral map, taking into account population shifts and housing developments to adjust the ...

After becoming prime minister in 1998, Orbán suffered an unexpected electoral defeat four years later. He then swore he “would never lose again” and began planning the political ...

KYIV — As the Trump administration tries to organize talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, one major hurdle stands square in its way: The countries still fundamentally disagree over what ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country has intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning potential military operations in Belarus and warned against the weakening ...

We're about to commit electoral suicide,' one minister told me. 'The reaction to the winter fuel cut was terrible. Well, this is going to set off carnage inside the party. People backed us because ...

China says Europe's role crucial in peace talks China views all efforts to end war positively Europe blindsided by Trump's phone calls to Putin, Zelenskiy China says ready to enhance strategic ...

US President Donald Trump upended three years of Washington's policy toward Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Donald Trump said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” on Wednesday morning in which they agreed to work together “very ...

In the Oval Office, President Trump refused to say that Ukraine is an equal member of the negotiation with Russia to end the war. That refusal marks the end of a remarkable day. I think what we ...

If you missed it, here are some earlier comments from Russia's foreign secretary in Saudi Arabia. Sergei Lavrov was in Riyadh for talks with a delegation from the US, where he said the expansion ...