Added on November 9, 2016 at 20:09 Swiss time: The Republicans have not only won the presidency. They have also managed to defend their majorities in both the House and the Senate. Donald...

Donald Trump, despite all his crazy statements, had a small chance to win the 2016 presidential election because the Democrats had chosen Hillary Clinton, the second most hated candidate...

The case against Hillary Clinton is strong. One of the latest reasons not to vote for her: Donna Brazile. The former DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after Wikileaks emails led...

Added on October 10, 2016 at 05:51 Swiss time: Donald Trump has repeatedly donated money to Hillary Clinton. Bill and Hillary...

Update added on August 17, 2016 at 09:35 Swiss time: On August 16, for the first time since the Second World War, a foreign...

Elisabeth “Liz” Truss (*1975) is the new Secretary of Justice, taking over from Michael Gove (*1967), who has been ousted...

Senates suspends President Rousseff (article added on May 12, 2016 at 13:08 Swiss time) With 55 against 22 votes, the Brazilian 81-seat Senate has suspended President Rousseff for 180 day....

The newly elected, center-right president of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa presents himself a man of national unity On January 24, 2016 the Portuguese voters took a clear decision. In...

The “ Tsainami ” has swept the KMT away in Taiwan. The opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen has been elected President of the...

Mario Centeno designated as next finance minister of Portugal The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved the new...

The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva named the Socialist Antonio Costa as Portugal’s new prime minister. In the...

With more than 98% of all votes counted, the opposition candidate Mauricio Macri (*1959) of the Let’s Change Coalition won 51.4% of the vote in the Argentinean presidential election,...

The almost impossible happened, the three main oppositional, left-wing parties and their leaders, who don’t like each other and represent incompatible programs, decided to form a...

Added on October 5, 2015 at 08:35 CET: With 99.23% of the vote counted and only 4 more seats to attribute, Portugal Ahead wins...

The regional election in Upper Austria Among the famous citizens of the region of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich), with its capital Linz, are unpleasant people such as Adolf Hitler, he was...

After the 2015-election, it was clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would form a right-wing government. He had already moved further to the right at the end of 2014. As a surprise...

The new Estonian coalition government As expected, the relative winner of Estonia’s 2015-parliamentary election, Taavi...

There is nothing new under the Israeli sun. Bibi has already governed for some nine years. After the 2015 legislative election,...

On March 6, 2015 Brazil’s Supreme Court has given the green light to federal prosecutors to investigate 49 people,...

Correction added on April 16, 2015 at 20:33 CET: The Social Democrats lost indeed 4 seats compared with 2011, but now control...