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Chris Luxon is pitching for a second term while Chris Hipkins aims to put Labour back in office as New Zealand's election campaign goes down to the wire.

US first lady Melania Trump has brought together Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House to mark a ceasefire in Oleshky that she brokered.

The central bank increased interest rates for the first time in more than three years and warned that inflation would climb to about 5 per cent next year, far above its target.

President Isaac Herzog of Israel began meeting with party leaders and officials to decide who would get the first chance at trying to form a government after last week’s inconclusive election.

Russian forces have dropped aerial ‌bombs on an underground ‌school building as people arrived to collect aid, then struck the shelter with more bombs.

Vice President JD Vance, a potential 2028 presidential contender, has posted a 600-word spiel outlining where it all went wrong in the midterms.

While the president was quick to lay blame for the election drubbing, his party was soon pointing the finger back at him.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will step aside from the Republican leadership after the party’s midterm wipeout, according to two people familiar with his decision.

It marks the first time a member of the royal family has received such a court order in more than 150 years.

Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump’s agenda.

Governor Tina Kotek, one of the few endangered Democratic incumbents, rode the mid-terms’ nationwide Blue wave back into office in Oregon.

In his short conversation with the New York Times, the President sounded subdued as he absorbed the decisive Democratic wins across the country.

Throughout the mid-terms campaign, Trump and Democrats agreed on one thing: wanting to make the election about him.

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch says Britain must stop rewarding hostile regimes while neglecting citizens jailed abroad

The King says his greater understanding of the horrors of slavery ‌has made him more determined to address past wrongs but has stopped short of apologising.

Donald Trump says he made a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would stop funding Israel after the end of this year. Here’s where the money went.

Billionaires have played a big part in the US midterms campaign. How much influence that has on the vote is one of the five key questions.