SEOUL, June 4 — South Korea's liberal party candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president in yesterday's snap election, six months to the day after he evaded military cordons to vote against a shock martial law decree imposed by his ousted predecessor.

BUCHAREST, May 19 — Romania's European allies and markets welcomed centrist Nicușor Dan's presidential election victory over a Eurosceptic hard-right rival on Sunday, relieved that the European Union (EU) member had avoided a lurch to a Donald Trump-inspired political path.

SEOUL, May 10 — South Korea's conservatives dropped their presidential candidate today and reopened the nomination process, as the former prime minister joined the party to challenge the liberal frontrunner in an election just four weeks away.

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 — United States Vice-President Kamala Harris vowed to keep fighting for the ideals that powered her presidential campaign yesterday in a concession speech that acknowledged president-elect Donald Trump’s win while warning of potential dark times to come.

TEXAS, Nov 6 — Elon Musk was sued in a proposed class action yesterday by registered voters who signed his petition to support the Constitution for a chance to win his (RM4.4 million) US$1 million-a-day giveaway, and claim it was a fraud.

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 — False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the United States presidential election have amassed two billion views on social media platform X this year, said a report by non-profit group Centre for Countering Digital Hate.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — Elon Musk gave around US$75 million (RM322 million) to his pro-Donald Trump spending group in the span of three months, federal disclosures showed yesterday, underscoring how the billionaire has become crucial to the Republican candidate’s efforts to win the November 5 presidential election.

MILWAUKEE, July 24 — United States Vice-President Kamala Harris assailed Donald Trump yesterday at her first campaign rally since replacing President Joe Biden as Democratic presidential candidate, while a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed her taking a marginal lead over her Republican rival.

MOSCOW, July 22 — Republican nominee and former United States President Donald Trump said his party must be compensated for alleged “fraud” by President Joe Biden’s entourage after his decision to quit the presidential race, reported Sputnik.

TEHRAN, July 6 — Relative moderate Masoud Pezeshkian urged people today to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead” after beating a hard-line rival to win Iran’s presidential election.

MOSCOW, March 3 — Forty-eight per cent of American voters are ready to vote for former US President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, scheduled for November 2024, while 43 per cent have expressed a desire to support incumbent US President Joe Biden, a poll conducted by The New York Times and the Siena College research organisation showed on Saturday.

SEOUL, Jan 3 — South Korean opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday by a man who lunged at him with a knife after asking for his autograph, officials said.

CAIRO, Dec 19 — Egypt's National Election Authority (NEA) declared on Monday that incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won the 2024 presidential election with some 40 million, or 89.6 per cent, of valid votes, Xinhua reported.

SINGAPORE, Sept 1 — More than 2.7 million Singaporeans will today decide who among the three candidates will become the ninth president of the republic.

SINGAPORE, Aug 22 — The nomination of three candidates eligible to run for president was completed successfully today.

SINGAPORE, Aug 11 — Singapore will hold a presidential election on September 1 if more than one candidate is nominated to run for the largely ceremonial post, the government said today.

ANKARA, May 28 — More than 1.92 million Turkish nationals have cast their votes abroad so far for Turkiye's May 28 presidential runoff, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

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MANILA, May 10 — The Philippines woke to a new but familiar political dawn on Tuesday, after an election triumph by Ferdinand Marcos Jr paved the way for a once unimaginable return to the country's highest office for its most notorious political dynasty.

MANILA, May 9 — Polls opened in the Philippines on Monday in the country's most divisive presidential election in decades, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable return to the rule of the Marcos family, 36 years after they were toppled in a "people power" uprising.