Politics & Government News

9:23 PM on Sunday, February 8

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumps 4.5% after Prime Minister Takaichi's ruling party wins a stronger majority in election.

7:02 PM on Sunday, February 8

Children visiting polling stations in Portugal with their parents during the presidential election got to cast votes for their favorite fictional characters

6:05 PM on Sunday, February 8

A federal judge has refused to help in attempts to open early voting sites at three public North Carolina universities

5:18 PM on Sunday, February 8

Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has become what observers say is a symbol of the 2020 crackdown on press freedoms in Hong Kong

5:01 PM on Sunday, February 8

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, is sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law

4:50 PM on Sunday, February 8

Nicaragua's government blocks Cuban citizens from entering without a visa, cutting off a key migration route to the U.S. The government confirmed this change on Sunday, suspending an exemption that allowed Cubans to enter visa-free

3:55 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority

3:00 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel President Isaac Herzog visits Australia to support the Jewish community after an antisemitic attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach left 15 dead

2:58 PM on Sunday, February 8

U.S. Olympians are beginning to face backlash for speaking out about domestic politics at the Milan Cortina Games

1:15 PM on Sunday, February 8

Venezuela’s government has released several prominent opposition members from prison, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado

10:45 AM on Sunday, February 8

A multistory apartment building has collapsed in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, killing at least nine people

9:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has resigned over the controversy surrounding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Morgan McSweeney said he advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson, despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

5:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine has killed one person and wounded two others

4:38 AM on Sunday, February 8

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has reopened after a two-day closure

4:37 AM on Sunday, February 8

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center

4:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

Buckingham Palace says Nigeria’s president will make a state visit to the U.K. in March

12:05 AM on Sunday, February 8

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro has won Portugal’s presidential runoff election against hard-right populist André Ventura

7:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has taken a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election

7:04 AM on Friday, February 6

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family