Why is the western US still counting votes after election day?
Polls have closed in the US midterms, but results from some western states may not emerge for days. Zeena Aqel explains how mail-in voting, a system built for convenience, became a flashpoint in America’s fight over trust in the election process.
Netanyahu’s allies refused to back the result, as President Herzog began talks on who should form the next government
Meanwhile, the breakaway opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, is mounting a strong challenge for the east coast port city of Durban. He also argued that coalition government could foster a new culture of political tolerance in South Africa’s inc
Some polling stations have experienced vote-delaying issues that officials describe as being minor.
Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure. The former liberation movement, which Nelson Mandela led to power in 1994 at the end of apartheid as South Africa’s first black president, is still likely to be the largest party.
Donald Trump posted a document on social media this summer by a supposed historian that compared him with, among others, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. Democrats won Senate seats for the first time in Kansas since 1932, in Texas since 1988 and in South Carolina since 1998.
We’d like to hear from people in the US and around the world about their reactions to the results and what they could mean for the future We’d like to hear from people in the US and around the world about their reactions to the midterm election results, which saw Democrats win control of both houses of Congress after a series of sweeping victories over Donald Trump’s Republican party. How are you feeling about the outcome, and what does it mean to you?