President Joe Biden will temporarily shut the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers whenever illegal migrant crossings surge, the White House said Tuesday, in a dramatic bid to neutralize one of his political weak spots in the reelection battle against Donald Trump

The BJP won 109 seats and is leading in 130, as of 7:20pm (Indian Standard Time) as the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 continued

As results have started pouring in today, the Indian National Congress (INC) led INDIA bloc seems to have made massive gains over their poor showing in 2019.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unquestionable dominance over the state was evident today as Trinamool Congress raced ahead of its rival BJP by leading in 24 seats of total 42 Lok Sabha seats

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term in power on Tuesday, leading a country with the world's biggest population and fastest-growing economy

India's ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance today faced a stiff challenge from opposition INDIA bloc as counting of votes progressed in all the 542 Lok Sabha elections

The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed on Monday, the regional government said, barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country's first woman president

As counting of votes in India's parliamentary elections began today, early trends show BJP-led NDA ahead of opposition's INDIA bloc but the gap between them is narrowing as the opposition appears to improve its performance significantly compared to 2019 national poll, EC App said

As the Lok Sabha election counts begin this morning in India, capping an 80-day long marathon polling process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming for a record-tying third consecutive term in office, while the opposition bloc in India hopes to pull off a surprise, Ndtv reports

India's election commission began tallying on Tuesday the 642 million votes cast in just-concluded elections, an AFP reporter at a counting centre said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tipped to win

A module of a Chinese lunar probe successfully took off from the far side of the Moon on Tuesday carrying samples to be taken back to Earth, state media reported

President Joe Biden on Monday for the first time called former President Donald Trump a "convicted felon" who poses a higher threat to the United States if he wins another term - the most biting attack on his opponent's legal troubles to date

In a bitter-sweet prediction for India’s Congress party, an exit poll carried out by the VMR-Manorama News has suggested a massive erosion in Rahul Gandhi’s vote share in the recently-concluded election in Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.

Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.

A High Court in Pakistan yesterday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from a conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party said, but Khan will remain in prison for now due to a conviction in another case.

Hunter Biden, the long-troubled son of Joe Biden, went on trial yesterday on gun charges in a historic first prosecution of a sitting president’s child -- and potential threat to his father’s reelection.

India’s Election Commission (EC) said yesterday a record-breaking 642 million voters cast their ballots in the general election that concluded on June 1 and dismissed opposition concerns over how the votes would be counted.

Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged or possibly damaged since the Israeli offensive began in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN.

Forced displacement has pushed over a million Palestinians away from the Gaza city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said yesterday.