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The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has claimed the number of actions taken to attempt to influence the upcoming national election have increased compared to previous elections.

The government of interim President Emmerson Mnangagwa cleared the streets of Harare with troops and police on Thursday, turning the capital city into a “ghost town,” as several foreign media outlets described it.

Zimbabwe’s national election commission began publishing the results of the nation’s first elections since the removal of dictator Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, as both presidential contenders expressed confidence on social media that they would prevail.

“I am going to work very hard,” Trump said during an interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show. “I’ll go six or seven days a week when we’re 60 days out…”

The White House distributed this week a long and detailed list of the actions President Donald Trump and his administration have taken to address Russian interference in U.S. elections, including the 2016 presidential election.

Contents: Second largest terror attack in Pakistan’s history occurs at election rally; ‘Ghazi Force’ takes credit for attack on 11th anniversary of Red Mosque siege

Far left out-of-state donors have led the fundraising charge for Democrat candidates challenging GOP candidates in two Republican-held House seats in North Carolina in the midterm elections.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday faces the biggest ballot box challenge of his 15 year grip on Turkey, with the opposition revitalized and his popularity at risk from growing economic troubles.

Iraq’s parliament, on Wednesday, passed a law mandating a manual recount of votes cast in the May 12 parliamentary elections.

A human rights group in Zimbabwe sounded the alarm this week on the case of 36-year-old prison guard John Mahlabera, facing a disciplinary hearing for allegedly expressing “disloyalty” to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a tweet.

Zimbabwe’s interim President Emmerson “the Crocodile” Mnangagwa announced on Wednesday that elections will be held on Monday, July 30 for both the presidency and legislature. It will be the first time in four decades an election has been held without dictator Robert Mugabe on the ballot.

Final numbers for Iraq’s parliamentary election, which took place on Saturday, will not be available until this Friday, although estimates appear to show Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s coalition leading.

A UK Independence Party (UKIP) spokesman has been much mocked on social media for comparing the party’s disastrous performance in the English local elections to the Black Death.

The Conservatives have suspended a candidate in London for ‘Islamophobic’ tweets after it emerged she had said that religion “undermines hard fought for values” like free speech in Britain.

Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced on Wednesday that it would hold snap parliamentary elections on June 24, expected to reinforce President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s control of national policy.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is urging Democrats to vote, asserting that “women are dying” because the left is losing elections.

Contents: Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz anti-migrant party wins overwhelming victory in Hungary; Europe as a whole moves steadily to the right

The government of Zambia expelled Cuba’s ambassador in the country this week over attending an opposition presidential candidate’s rally and declaring his support for changing the government, a move Zambian officials declared “unbecoming of a diplomat.”

“The Russians are still in our elections. They think they had a pretty easy first run, and they are going to be involved unless we come together as a country,” she said during a paid speech at Rutgers University on Thursday.

President Trump’s pro-American immigration agenda may be longed for by the Republican base, but GOP lawmakers and White House staffers remain unwilling to prioritize the most important issue for midterm voters. Last week, Trump signed the omnibus spending bill, a

Kansas Secretary of State and leading gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach has charged through on his fight to defend the state’s voter proof of citizenship law in a case that will likely set precedent for the country.

JERUSALEM – New polls released Monday showed that were elections held today the Likud party would remain in power with the same amount of seats, centrist Yesh Atid would come in second and main opposition party the Zionist Union would lose around half its seats.

JERUSALEM – The so-called Israeli coalition crisis has lawmakers on the fence about whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should call early elections or not amid the threat of an indictment and contention over a draft bill that has parties in the coalition pitted against each other.

Colombia’s conservative Democratic Center party took control of the upper house of Congress and captured the presidential nomination in a primary open to all right-wing political parties on Sunday, a sign Colombians have shifted rightward since President Juan Manuel Santos legalized the FARC terrorist group last year.

Henri Falcón – a former governor, Hugo Chávez supporter, and the leader of the “Progressive Advance” party – has announced his candidacy in the illegitimate Venezuelan presidential election scheduled for April 22.

Kansas Secretary of State and ally to President Trump, Kris Kobach, has quickly consolidated conservative support in his bid to unseat establishment Gov. Jeff Coyler.

The nation’s top intelligence official told members of Congress Wednesday that the intelligence community expects Russia to continue influence operations targeting the United States.

House Democrats are dominating in districts across the United States that are heavily populated with foreign-born residents, a new report reveals.

In the next two decades, a foreign-born voting population will be added to the United States electorate via “chain migration” that is double the size of the number of annual American births. By virtue of chain migration, newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them.

The electoral board in Honduras has agreed to hold a partial recount after the socialist opposition alleged electoral fraud on behalf of the conservative incumbent who appears to have narrowly scraped a victory.

The communist government of Cuba has announced its candidates for the municipal “elections” scheduled for November 26, a vote which will feature zero opposition candidates on the ballot.

The UK Electoral Commission has suggested banning internet trolls from being able to vote in elections, according to a report.

Sources are reporting on an email letter focused on unseating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent by Senate Conservatives Action, a political action committee. The letter was signed by the former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccineli, who is now president of the PAC.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apparently didn’t get the memo that meddling in other countries’ elections is a terrible offense. On Friday, he damned Germany’s major political parties as “enemies of Turkey” and urged Turks living in Germany not to vote for any of them.

Protesters in Venezuela speaking to Agence-France Presse Tuesday called the main opposition party’s participation in socialist-controlled elections this year a “mockery” as anti-socialist groups lament dwindling numbers at what were previously thousands-strong elections.

Partisan Democrats are aggressively attempting to delegitimize President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission, in part by smearing one of its most prominent members, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, as a vote suppressor.