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Republican frontrunner Kevin McCarthy bids to nail down final speaker votes as US House returns

The Republicans, who hold a razor-thin majority, have been mired in internecine warfare as McCarthy lost a historic 11 consecutive ballots for the prestigious role, with around 20 conservative hardliners blocking his path since Tuesday

How today's US House chaos mirrors that from 100 years ago

Prior to the current stalemate over Representative Kevin McCarthy's candidature, the House required multiple days and repeated votes to settle on a new Speaker 100 years ago in 1923, implying that little has changed in Congress over a century

US midterm elections: Two days on, why have the results not been announced?

US elections are largely decentralised, and each of the 50 states has its own rules. With voting by mail widely popularised during the COVID-19 pandemic, things are taking even longer

Israel: Voters remain deadlocked as tiny swing could determine outcome of tight race

In Israel's fragmented political system, neither Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line Likud party nor Yair Lapid's centrist Yesh Atid is expected to capture enough seats in parliament to form a new government

Race to 10 Downing: Will Liz Truss' tax cut proposals help her win the UK election?

There is a strategy behind Liz Truss’s approach; there are votes to be won by focusing on taxes — but these are among Conservative party members, not the general public

Vijay Shekhar Sharma reappointed Paytm MD, CEO; 99.67 pc shareholders vote in his favour

The company's shareholders have voted with a 99.67 per cent majority in favour of Vijay Shekhar Sharma's reappointment as the Managing Director for five more years, designated as "Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer" of the company

Imran Khan to address Pakistan ahead of no-confidence vote

The Pakistan prime minister, who peppers his speeches with cricket metaphors, said late Thursday he would fight 'till the last ball'

Voters in Serbia cast ballots in triple election, likely to set to keep populists in power

Opinion surveys ahead of the vote have predicted that President Aleksandar Vucic will win another five-year term and that his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party will yet again dominate the 250-member Assembly

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan's party wins snap election as rival alleges fraud

of the vote in snap parliamentary polls called in an effort to defuse a political crisis after a war with Azerbaijan

Assam Assembly election 2021, Dholai profile: BJP's Parimal Suklabaidya brushed off 2016 challenge from Congress' Girindra Mallik

Suklabaidya had netted 68,694 votes as compared to Mallik who had received 41,857 votes in the 2016 Assembly election