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In a historic first, Bangladesh goes postal ballot voting for 13th parliamentary elections, impacting the electorate through remote voting. Here’s how this election game-changer works.

Sanae Takaichi, made headlines on October 21, 2025, and became the first woman leader of Japan, a country known for its male-dominated political landscape.

Six ​people were ⁠hurt in the attack on the region, which has been a frequent target of attacks ‌in the nearly four-year war ‌that started with Russian invasion in 2022

Brenton Tarrant, an Australian former gym instructor, admitted carrying out New Zealand’s deadliest modern-day mass shooting before being sentenced to life in jail in August 2020

In its best result since its founding in 1955, Ms. Takaichi’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a two-thirds majority in Sunday’s (February 8) snap lower house election

Oli has won parliamentary elections from Jhapa district six times out of seven in the past. In the last election, he defeated Nepali Congress candidate by a huge margin

Space X has found massive success as a NASA contractor, but critics have for years panned Elon Musk’s Mars colonisation plans as overambitious

Maxwell, currently serving 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to the disgraced financier Epstein, will face questions from prison via videolink, in a deposition by the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee

Jimmy ​Lai’s trial has been the financial hub’s most high-profile national ‌security case