Bolivians headed to the polls to choose between two pro-business candidates in presidential elections, ending two decades of ...

Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, recently became Japan's first woman prime minister.

Nicolas Sarkozy entered prison on Tuesday after a judge sentenced him last month to five years for criminal conspiracy over a ...

But she is seen as socially conservative, opposing revising a 19th-century law requiring married couples to share the same ...

Three quarters of the country's roughly 120,000 citizens live on Mahe island, where the capital Victoria is located, according to 2024 World Bank data.

Taxi driver Alain is so disillusioned with Ivory Coast's politicians that he and other residents of Abidjan's Yopougon ...

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu weathered two confidence motions Thursday, just days after appointing his new ...

Voting began Sunday as Cameroon holds presidential elections which 92-year-old Paul Biya, the world's oldest serving head of ...

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni marks three years in office this week with her far-right party more popular than ...

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be jailed this coming week over a scheme to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 ...

Malawi's ex-president Peter Mutharika was on course for re-election Wednesday after the incumbent, Lazarus Chakwera, conceded defeat in last week's vote. The dire state of the economy in the small ...

The archipelago is vulnerable to climate change and is facing rising sea levels, the deterioration of the marine ecosystem -- ...