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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

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Supporters of Poland's presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki hold Polish flags as they gather to attend a campaign rally in Warsaw on May 25, 2025, a week ahead of the second round of presidential elections. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
May 31, 2025, 1:42 pm
Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot
In Sunday’s crucial runoff election, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite the country’s role in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
L to R: The Democrats leader Yair Golan, National Unity leader Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, lead their respective faction meetings at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025. (All photos Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 4:52 pm
Yair Golan urges center-left merger for ousting Netanyahu, but Lapid uninterested
The Democrats head calls for Yesh Atid and National Unity to join forces with him, insists broad center all on the same team; officials close to opposition leader say it’s a losing strategy
By Stav Levaton and Michael Bachner
Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, walks in the presidential palace in Damascus, December 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 29, 2024, 3:54 pm
Syria could take four years to hold elections, de facto leader Sharaa says
Rebel chief who ousted Assad says drafting a new constitution could take three years, subsequent changes could take another
By Hatem Maher and Menna Alaa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court before testifying in his corruption trial, December 11, 2024. (Amit Shabi/Pool via Flash90)
December 13, 2024, 1:57 am
Poll shows PM’s Likud would win most seats in fresh election but lack path to power
TV survey finds Netanyahu’s rivals would win a Knesset majority if election held today, with the margin rising if theoretical slate led by former premier Naftali Bennett runs
By ToI Staff
Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot)
December 4, 2024, 8:47 pm
Allegations of Christian influence surface ahead of World Zionist Congress election
As Diaspora Jews prepare for vote that will influence funding of Jewish causes and oversight of Israel’s ‘national institutions,’ a group is accused of misrepresentation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
MP of Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) Walter Rosenkranz delivers a speech after his election as new parliament president in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on October 24, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
November 24, 2024, 6:53 pm
Austrian far-right party shows strength with state election win in Styria
Freedom Party’s victory is show of force for the Russia-friendly faction, adds to pressure on parties trying to form a national government
By Francois Murphy
This combination of pictures created on June 29, 2024 shows (L) Iranian presidential candidate and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as he attends his election campaign rally at Sharif University in Tehran, June 22, 2024, and (R) lawmaker and former health minister Massoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate for Iranian president, at a campaign rally at Afrasiabi Stadium in Tehran, June 23, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
June 29, 2024, 2:57 pm
Hardliner, moderate to face off in 2nd-ever Iranian runoff, after record low turnout
Neither presidential candidate secures majority, with 40% voter turnout amid opposition boycott; reformist Pezeshkian wants ‘friendly relations with all countries except Israel’
By Ramin Khanizadeh and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
People walk past an installation depicting a replica of a ballot box along a street in Tehran on June 26, 2024. (Raheb Homavandi / AFP)
June 28, 2024, 6:55 am
Iranians set to vote for new president with sole reformist on ballot
Masoud Pezeshkian faces off against conservative Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as Tehran replaces Raisi following deadly helicopter crash
By Ramin Khanizadeh and Ahmad Parhizi
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at a news conference at the German government guest house in Meseberg, north of Berlin, Germany, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 9, 2024, 11:48 pm
Macron dissolves French parliament, calls snap elections after far-right wins EU vote
French far-right parties win 40% of the European parliament vote, beating president’s centrist alliance
By AFP
Official European Union campaign billboards are displayed in a street, in The Hague on June 6, 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)
June 6, 2024, 11:52 am
European Union elections kick off across bloc, with hard-right gains expected
Polls open in the Netherlands ahead of four days of voting in the 27 member states following the election of Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Party for Freedom in the national vote
By Mike Corder
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City on September 6, 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
May 31, 2024, 4:32 am
Quietly Jewish scientist poised to win Sunday’s Mexican presidential election
Claudia Sheinbaum, would-be successor of a left-wing populist incumbent, has focused on energy and crime despite detractors’ repeated efforts to discuss her faith – or lack of it
By Canaan Lidor
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech to announce the date of the UK's next general election, to be held on July 4, at 10 Downing Street in central London, on May 22, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 9:28 pm
British PM Sunak calls general elections for July 4; polls predict defeat
Governing Conservatives widely expected to lose to Keir Starmer’s Labour, though Sunak vows to ‘fight for every vote’
By Agencies
Reserve soldiers from Brothers in Arms take part in a protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military duty, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:56 am
With an ambitious civic agenda, Brothers and Sisters in Arms says it’s here to stay
The protest group founded by reserve soldiers last year wants involvement in education, community and employment issues, to strengthen democratic values in society
By Sue Surkes
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballots during the parliamentary and key clerical body elections at a polling station in Tehran on March 1, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
March 3, 2024, 8:35 pm
Iranian media: Hardline conservatives secure bulk of parliamentary seats in elections
Official IRNA news agency puts turnout at around 41% in first vote since outbreak of protests over death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022; authorities still counting ballots
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
February 18, 2024, 1:54 am
PM: Elections have a date — in a few years; Likud official: After the war, he’s done
Senior Likud members say Netanyahu won’t be able to go on after war with Hamas ends; Lapid says if he’d been premier on Oct. 7, Netanyahu ‘would have sent people to burn my house’
By ToI Staff
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