Campaigns & Elections

A combination picture shows leader of Blue and White party, Benny Gantz in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel September 17, 2019, Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beitenu party in Tel Aviv, Israel September 5, 2019 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun, Nir Elias, Amir Cohen - RC17757CDF80

Timeline: A tumultuous year in Israeli politics

Kevin Huggard and Natan Sachs

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is greeted by staff as he arrives back at Downing Street, after meeting Queen Elizabeth and accepting her invitation to form a new government after the Conservative Party was returned to power in the general election with an increased majority, in London, Britain December 13, 2019. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS - RC2CUD9C5SL9

Brexit endgame: British voters back Boris and Brexit

Friday, December 13, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - HP1ED4S02VJ7Y

Trump’s trial should put the GOP on the spot

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

President Hage Geingob of Namibia addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - HT1EC9L17ZA2K

Africa in the news: Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, and Nigeria updates

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Polling officials wait to receive Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines and Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) at a distribution centre ahead of the final phase of voting in Gujarat state assembly election in Ahmedabad, India, December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC1F07DFD550

How electronic voting machines have improved India’s democracy

Friday, December 6, 2019

BBC presenter Nick Robinson speaks in front of Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price, former Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, Labour Party's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, Conservative Party's Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice, SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson before a general election debate in Cardiff, Britain November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool - RC27LD97TG7M

Britain goes to the polls in a high-stakes election

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Senator Amy Klobuchar, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Bernie Sanders pose at the start of their fifth 2020 campaign debate at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry - HP1EFBL060A07

Would a Democratic president mean the end of the US special relationship with Saudi Arabia?

Monday, November 25, 2019

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) with other Republican congressmen speaks to the media outside a secure area as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper testifies in a closed-door deposition as part of the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC192AB1A240

Republicans backing Trump: This week in impeachment

Monday, November 25, 2019

Voters cast their ballot in the U.S. midterm elections in Ferguson, Missouri November 4, 2014. Black anger at a local Democrat's handling of the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has given the Republican candidate some hope of winning the race for St Louis County executive for first time since the 1980s. REUTERS/Whitney Curtis (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - GM1EAB50DEP01

Why the race for Black voters is the most important Democratic primary of them all

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, November 25, 2019

Voters wait in a queue to cast their vote during the Sidama autonomy referendum in Hawassa, Ethiopia November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC2UED9FRFXH

Africa in the news: Aviation update, Ethiopia update, and Ghana oil discovery

Saturday, November 23, 2019