What is at stake in UK local voting ahead of a looming general election

Millions of voters in England and Wales will cast their ballots in an array of local elections

As India votes, misinformation surges on social media: 'The whole country is paying the price'

Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes

News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds

Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About half of Americans say they're concerned that outlets will report inaccuracies or misinformation

Campaign to build new California city submits signatures to get on November ballot

A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election

Campaign to build new California city submits signatures to get on November ballot

A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election

Italy's League party, low in polls, picks a provocative candidate for European Parliament election

Italy's League, a junior party in the government, is putting forward a provocative candidate for European Party elections

Tunisian opposition wants political prisoners freed before taking part in presidential election

Tunisia’s main opposition coalition says it won’t take part in the upcoming presidential election unless political opponents are freed and judicial independence is restored

South African police investigate if former president's party forged signatures to contest elections

South African police are investigating if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month

In unusual push, funders band together to get out grants around election work 'early'

Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make their grants earlier this Election Year

AP WAS THERE: Mexico's 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory

Japan's PM Kishida denies he will step down over his party's loss in special elections

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last weekend's by-elections was largely due to a political fundraising scandal and that he will not resign or replace party executives to take responsibility

AP WAS THERE: Mexico's 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory

El Salvador's congress approves changes to reform constitution, a move critics call anti-democratic

El Salvador’s Congress, which is controlled by President Nayib Bukele New Ideas party, approved a change to an article of the Constitution to facilitate larger constitutional reforms without having to wait until after the election of a new...

In Austria, the far right leads the race for European parliamentary elections

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has been leading the opinion polls for over a year, hovering near 30 percent ahead of June elections for the European Parliament. It’s a rise of some 10 points from the party’s showing in the 2019 European...

Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

Iraqi and Syrian officials say Baghdad has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria

Togo votes in parliamentary elections ahead of proposed controversial reforms

Togolese voters headed to the polls on Monday to vote in the country’s parliamentary elections, which will test support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap future presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the...

Solomon Islands pro-Beijing prime minister won't keep his job following elections

Solomon Islands pro-Beijing Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has withdrawn from the contest to remain head of the strategically important South Pacific island nation’s government following general elections two weeks ago

South Korea's president talks to opposition about cooperation after his party was routed in election

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is talking with liberal opposition leader Lee Jae-myung about how to revive bipartisan cooperation, after Yoon’s conservative party lost massively in recent parliamentary elections

Scotland's leader faces a week of high-stakes talks to keep his job

Scotland’s leader is facing a week of high-stakes talks to save his job and re-energize the country’s independence movement after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change

South Korea's president talks to opposition about cooperation after his party was routed in election

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is talking with liberal opposition leader Lee Jae-myung about how to revive bipartisan cooperation, after Yoon’s conservative party lost massively in recent parliamentary elections

Togo votes in key legislative elections after divisive constitutional reform

Togolese vote in legislative elections on Monday after a divisive constitutional reform that opponents say allows President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his family's decades-long grip on power.