Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has been fined Tw$500,000 ($17,000) by electoral authorities for urging his Facebook followers on polling day to vote for him, the Central Election Commission has said., the Central Election Commission has said. (... [Full Article]
Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France's president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe's debt crisis - only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Francois Hollande became president of France on Tuesday in a ceremony steeped in tradition, taking over a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer place. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
France gets a new president as Francois Hollande is sworn in as the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Greece's president convened the crisis-struck country's wrangling politicians Sunday in a final bid to broker an agreement for a coalition government and avoid new elections that will prolong the political uncertainty and threaten the count... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's president met party leaders on Sunday in a final bid to cobble together a coalition and avert a repeat election, but the veteran politician's effort looked set to fail because of deep splits over an EU/IMF rescue... [Full Article]
An Israeli envoy met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday and delivered a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayahu detailing his government's stance on stalled peace negotiations. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Betty White says she usually keeps her political views private but in this presidential election strongly favors one candidate. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Israeli President Shimon Peres' office says the 88-year-old is "feeling well" after undergoing surgery Friday for a hernia discovered during his state visit to Canada earlier in the week (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]