ROME : Italy’s 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected by lawmakers on Saturday in a desperate bid by right and left to end a two-month deadlock, a move slammed as a “coup” by a protest party that staged a rally in front of parliament.Napolitano won with a sweeping ...

Pakistan has been re-elected as member of UNESCO Executive Board with a clean slate. Pakistan secured 156 out of 186 votes. Five countries abstained while twenty-five votes were declared invalid. No vote was cast against Pakistan, a press release from Pakistan embassy in Paris said on Thursday. The ...

Tanzania's incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete has been returned to office following last weekend's elections. Mr Kikwete won just over 61% of the votes, beating candidates from opposition parties. The election commission dismissed claims of irregularities in the count. Mr Kikwete has been credited ...

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan was re-elected president of the United Arab Emirates for a second five-year term on Tuesday, the official news agency WAM announced. The Supreme Federal Council, made up of the rulers of the seven emirates in the UAE, selected Sheikh Khalifa, 61. He first rose to ...