Parliamentary elections
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike shows up to support a candidate from her Tomin First party on the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election day in Tokyo on Sunday, July 4, 2021. Voters in Japan's capital are electing the Tokyo city assembly amid worries about health risks during the Olympics, opening in three weeks, as coronavirus cases continue to rise. (Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo assembly split after vote amid pandemic Olympics fears

By Yuri Kageyama Jul. 03, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 12, 2020 file photo, Poland's main ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski wears a mask for protection against the coronavirus in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, during work on new legislation that is to ensure the health and safety of the postponed presidential election to be held this summer. Poland’s governing right-wing coalition lost its slim majority in parliament Friday June 25, 2021, after three lawmakers left it, criticizing government policies — mainly on phasing out coal. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Polish ruling right-wing coalition loses parliament majority

By Monika Scislowska Jun. 25, 2021 12:55 PM EDT

Nizar Banat, an outspoken of the Palestinian Authority, speaks to journalists at the family house, in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 4, 2021. Banat who had intended to run in parliamentary elections before they were cancelled earlier this year died during his arrest by Palestinian Authority forces early Thursday, June 24, 2021, officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Critic of Palestinian Authority dies after violent arrest

By Joseph Krauss Jun. 24, 2021 02:37 AM EDT

North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier and head of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Armin Laschet, left, and Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder arrive for a CDU/CSU leadership in Berlin, Sunday June 20, 2021, on the eve of the unveiling of their electoral program ahead of the September general election. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)
Merkel's bloc pledges stability, renewal to German voters

By Geir Moulson Jun. 21, 2021 08:47 AM EDT

Ethiopians queue on chairs in the street as they wait to cast their votes in the general election at a polling center in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 21, 2021. Ethiopia was voting Monday in the greatest electoral test yet for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as insecurity and logistical issues meant ballots wouldn't be cast in more than 100 constituencies of the 547 across the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Ethiopia votes in test for PM Abiy amid reports of abuses

Jun. 21, 2021 07:26 AM EDT

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and new Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham Sarah Green during a victory rally at Chesham Youth Centre in Chesham, England, Friday June 18, 2021, after Sarah Green won the Chesham and Amersham by-election. In a surprising result, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was easily defeated in a special election for a seat it has held onto for decades. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
UK's Conservatives suffer defeat in 'blue wall' seat

By Pan Pylas Jun. 18, 2021 11:19 AM EDT

Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland and leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party SDP, attends social media online event of the municipal elections campaign at the party's headquarters in Helsinki, Saturday, June 12, 2021. The Finns will go to the polls on Sunday. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)
Finland's local elections a test for nation's young leader

By Jari Tanner Jun. 13, 2021 03:54 AM EDT

An Israeli protester wears pink during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, Saturday, June 12, 2021. If all goes according to plan, Israel will swear in a new government on Sunday, ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year rule and a political crisis that inflicted four elections on the country in less than two years. Hebrew reads: "You failed"," Israel free" and "Leave". (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Knesset approves new coalition, ending Netanyahu's long rule

By Joseph Krauss Jun. 13, 2021 02:56 AM EDT

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, smiles as he speaks to Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid during a special session of the Knesset, whereby Israeli lawmakers elect a new president, at the plenum in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
Netanyahu foes push for quick vote to end his 12-year rule

By Laurie Kellman Jun. 03, 2021 05:06 AM EDT

EU announces 'unprecedented' Moldova recovery plan

By Stephen Mcgrath Jun. 02, 2021 11:54 AM EDT
BUCHAREST (AP) — The Republic of Moldova is set to receive an “unprecedented” 600 million-euro ($733 million) economic recovery package from the European Union...

Voters wait in a line to casts their vote at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Deftera, a suburb of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, May 30, 2021. Cypriots are voting for a new parliament, with some 558,000 voters eligible to elect 56 lawmakers. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Exit polls: Far-right party gains in Cyprus parliament vote

By Menelaos Hadjicostis May. 30, 2021 12:38 PM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses the media at his residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 28, 2021. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces he will seeks for a second term. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German President Steinmeier says he will seek a 2nd term

May. 28, 2021 05:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2021 file photo, demonstrators supporting the Hirak pro-democracy movement are pushed by police officers in Algiers, Friday, May 7, 2021. A crackdown on the pro-democracy Hirak movement, with hundreds arrested around Algeria during last week's 117th Friday march, casts a pall over presidential efforts to give a new face to a nation whose army plays a backseat role in governance. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)
Hope, tension mark kickoff of Algerian election campaign

May. 21, 2021 11:31 AM EDT

Ethiopia sets June 21 as new date for its delayed elections

By Andrew Meldrum May. 20, 2021 12:36 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ethiopia will hold its delayed parliamentary elections on June 21, the country’s national electoral board announced Thursday, a vote that...

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020 file photo, a woman displays her finger marked with ink indicating she has voted as she leaves a polling station, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. A major election monitoring organization says last November’s election results in Myanmar were representative of the will of the people, rejecting the military’s allegations of massive fraud that served as its justification for seizing power. ANFREL, the Asian Network for Free Elections, said in a 171-page report said procedural safeguards helped make the polling process transparent and reliable. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
Election watchdog says no credible proof of Myanmar fraud

By Grant Peck May. 17, 2021 11:08 AM EDT

Cyprus president unveils 'ambitious' economic stimulus plan

May. 17, 2021 10:15 AM EDT
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' president on Monday unveiled a 4.4 billion-euro ($5.34 billion) economic stimulus plan, which he described as the “most...

A nurse sanitizes her hands at a COVID-19 ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Political turmoil returns as Nepal suffers worst COVID surge

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 13, 2021 02:22 AM EDT

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, leader of the splinter group in the governing Nepal Communist Party shows his COVID-19 test result before entering parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 10, 2021. Nepal’s prime minister asked parliament for a vote of confidence on Monday in an attempt to show he still has enough support to stay in power despite an expected second split within his governing party. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepal prime minister loses confidence vote in parliament

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 10, 2021 06:04 AM EDT

Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon poses for photographers, at Bute House in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sunday, May 9, 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the U.K.’s devolved nations for crisis talks on the union after Scotland’s pro-independence party won its fourth straight parliamentary election. Sturgeon said the election results proved a second independence vote for Scotland was “the will of the country." She said any London politician who stood in the way would be “picking a fight with the democratic wishes of the Scottish people.” (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Sturgeon: Scotland independence vote matter of when, not if

By Sylvia Hui May. 09, 2021 06:12 AM EDT

Tower Bridge in London, Saturday, May 8, 2021, against the backdrop of the skyline of the financial district. On what was dubbed Super Thursday, around 50 million voters were eligible to take part in scores of elections in the UK, some of which had been postponed a year because of the pandemic that has left the U.K. with Europe’s largest coronavirus death toll. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Scottish government sets stage for another independence vote

By Pan Pylas May. 08, 2021 06:47 AM EDT