Georgia’s election commission confirmed the results of a controversial parliamentary election last month, which gave the ruling Georgian Dream party victory with 54% of the vote

Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, spoke on the phone for the first time in nearly two years

Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy junior, a vaccine-sceptic and conspiracy-theorist, to be America’s health secretary.

Donald Trump nominated Matt Gaetz, a loyalist and hardline Republican congressman, to be attorney-general.

Donald Trump reportedly picked Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota and a loyal defender of the president-elect, as his homeland-security secretary, overseeing immigration.

Donald Trump made several administration picks, announcing that Lee Zeldin, a former congressman, would take “swift deregulatory decisions” as head of America’s environment agency.

Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Lebanon killed more than 50 people, according to local officials.

Bryan Lanza, who worked as an adviser to Mr Trump during his re-election campaign, said that the incoming American administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine, rather than winning back territory

Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting the American government’s cases against Mr Trump, took a first step toward winding them down

Speaking for the first time since America’s presidential election, President Joe Biden said that he would work with Donald Trump to ensure a “peaceful and orderly transition”.

Kamala Harris conceded to Donald Trump, promising a “peaceful transfer of power” and urging her supporters to “accept the results of this election” but continue “the fight that fuelled this campaign”.

Polls began to close around America and the results of the presidential election started to roll in.

On the eve of America’s presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made a frantic tour of swing states.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continued to criss-cross swing states before America’s presidential election on Tuesday. Also, Maia Sandu, Moldova’s pro-EU incumbent, declared victory in the country’s presidential election, with 55% of the vote

In the last weekend before America’s election, both presidential candidates were on the stump in crucial swing states.

The Botswana Democratic Party, which has ruled the diamond-rich African country since independence in 1966, was swept from power after an election on Wednesday

American stocks tumbled on Thursday following damp earnings reports from Microsoft and Meta earlier in the week.

Flash floods killed at least 95 people in Spain.

Hizbullah named Naim Qassem, a cleric and politician, as its new leader.

Israel’s parliament voted to ban UNRWA, the UN’s aid agency for Palestinians, from operating inside the country, alleging that Hamas militants have infiltrated its staff.

Exit polls suggest that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to lose its majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday’s snap election.

Israel launched its long-anticipated retaliation for an Iranian missile attack on October 1st.

Turkey’s interior minister said it arrested 176 people linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in response to a terrorist attack on an aerospace company that killed five people and injured scores near Ankara, the capital

Gaza ceasefire talks will soon resume in Qatar, Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, announced alongside Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister.