Flavio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede defeat to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has defeated him by nearly 4.4 million votes.
Eleonore Hughes, Mauricio Savarese and Anna-Catherine Brigida
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a threat to Iran as the election considered a referendum on his leadership nears.
Steven Scheer
Brazilians are heading to the polls for a run-off vote between their incumbent leftist president and the right-wing son of a jailed former leader.
Oliver Griffin
Labor has hit the ground running on the first day of its state election campaign as its rivals put crime at the centre of their pitch.
Nick Wilson and Allanah Sciberras
With an eye toward seniors in Florida, Donald Trump has pledged to spend $US250 million to hire at least 5000 new nurses for aged care facilities.
Bo Erickson and Maria Alejandra Cardona and Steve Holland
Brazil, Israel, the United States, New Zealand, Victoria and Spain all host elections with far-reaching consequences over the next month.
Ben McKay
Brazil, Israel, the US, New Zealand, Victoria and Spain all host elections with far-reaching consequences over the next month.
President Donald Trump has held a rally in Iowa as he tries to boost Republican candidates ahead of the US midterm elections.
Nandita Bose
The lifting of warrants on exiled Catalan Separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has paved the way for him to take his party to the polls this November.
Staff Writers
An electoral body has voted to exclude the conservative Islamist Raam party from contesting Israel election on October 27.
The ruling party has won big in Russia's election but the anti-war party Yabloko has won a seat in a regional parliament, despite being largely banned.
Federal government frontbenchers have arced up as their party slips to a record-low primary vote share of 27 per cent in the latest Newspoll.
Will Nicholas
Russia's ruling United Russia party has won a parliamentary election, that's been dismissed by critics as as neither free nor fair.
Ulf Mauder and Katharina Schröder, dpa
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has suffered another electoral setback in two state elections, calling the results of one race a "disaster".
To help boost turnout at Russia's parliamentary election, voting has been held in the annexed parts of Ukraine.
Sweden's next government remains uncertain, with a thin lead for the centre-left opposition over the ruling right-wing bloc.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he's "deeply shocked" after a far-right extremist party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election.
GEIR MOULSON and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party has fallen short of an overall majority in a state election but has delivered a drubbing to the status quo.
Miranda Murray and Kirsti Knolle
Brazil's presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns ahead of what is expected to be tight election in October.
MAURICIO SAVARESE
The counting of votes has resumed in Zambia in presidential and parliamentary elections after reports of violence earlier caused a halt.
Top allies of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani have defeated establishment-backed Democrats in New York's congressional primary elections.
Nolan D. McCaskill
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party has won another large parliamentary majority in this month's elections, results show.
Labour's Andy Burnham has won a vote that paves the way for him to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but the embattled British leader vows he won't go quietly.
Andy Bruce, Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper
Voters in Kosovo are returning to the polls for an early parliamentary election after the parties failed to agree on a new president.
Zana Cimili
