Noticias

Libya’s House of Representatives (HoR), Libya’s internationally recognized parliament, failed to muster a quorum for yesterday’s session, which it needed in order to vote-in the constitutional amendment needed to legalise its referendum bill. The referendum bill was agreed in principle at the HoR’s last session before the Eid holidays – subject to a constitutional amendment being passed.

he first session of the 15th National Assembly ended on Monday after 329 members of the lower house of the parliament took oath following their election in the July 25 countrywide polls.

Outgoing NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq administered the oath to the MNAs-elect in the 342-member house, in what is a part of only the second democratic transition in the country's history.

Opposition parties held a protest demonstration outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in Islamabad on Wednesday against alleged rigging in the July 25 general elections. PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, however, was not in attendance.

Ni los trasnochadores, ni los madrugadores, han logrado ser los primeros en conocer los resultados preliminares de las elecciones del pasado miércoles en Pakistán. La Comisión Electoral ha retrasado el anuncio de los datos provisionales inicialmente previsto para las dos de la madrugada de este jueves (las once de la noche del miércoles en la España peninsular) debido a “un fallo técnico”.

El ex primer ministro de Pakistán Nawaz Sharif ha sido condenado este miércoles a 10 años de cárcel por corrupción, según los medios locales. Sharif, de 68 años y figura clave de la política pakistaní durante las últimas cuatro décadas, apareció en los llamados Papeles de Panamá, lo que desató una investigación que ya le obligó a dejar el cargo el año pasado.

by Umut Uras

Istanbul, Turkey - In the run-up to Turkey's key parliamentary and presidential elections, the Kurdish vote is seen by many as one of the major factors that could determine the outcome.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s top court upheld on Thursday a law mandating a nationwide recount of votes in a May parliamentary election but ruled that the cancellation of overseas, displaced, and Peshmerga ballots was unconstitutional.

Almost half of Turkish voters living abroad cast votes in Turkey’s June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections – a higher turnout than in previous polls, the nation's top election official said on Wednesday.

More than 1.48 million Turkish expats went to the polls between June 7 and 19, a turnout of 48.78 percent, Sadi Guven, head of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), told reporters in the capital Ankara, adding that the voting at foreign missions in 60 countries had occurred without incident.