Vance visits Hungary to shore up Orban’s support before Sunday vote
US vice president’s Budapest trip highlights US-Hungary far-right alignment as Orban faces toughest electoral challenge.
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Now in power, Nepal’s rapper-politician Balen Shah faces new challenge
Shah was a rebel – crude and different from the politicians who previously led Nepal. How will he be in office?
Democrat Emily Gregory wins Florida seat in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago district
Emily Gregory’s victory in the previously GOP-held district is the latest Democratic upset before November midterms.
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen’s left-wing bloc fails to win majority in vote
Country’s left bloc falls short of majority in parliament as Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeks third term.
Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race
Gregoire headed a list uniting the traditional left, the Greens and the Communists to victory in French capital.
Slovenia’s liberals and conservatives neck and neck in parliamentary vote
The nearly equal result means that none of the main parties will have a majority in the 90-member parliament.
Slovenia’s governing liberals face right-wing populists in tight election
Voters choosing between incumbent PM Robert Golob and pro-Trump Janez Jansa, with neither likely to win a majority.
Slovenia heads to polls with diverging views on Israel in focus
Slovenia’s election sees the centre-left coalition take on the populist right amid claims of foreign meddling.
‘Unpleasant surprises’: Will key French cities elect far-right mayors?
Before next year’s presidential race, local elections which conclude Sunday indicate fractured political landscape.
Pro-Israel groups see mixed record in money-fuelled Illinois primaries
Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, who took money from pro-Israel donors, won race to be Democratic Senate candidate.
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Who is Joe Kent, and why did he resign as Trump’s counterterrorism chief?
Kent is the highest-level official to leave Trump administration over the US president’s decision to wage war on Iran.
