Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admired abroad for his progressive policies but damaged by scandals at home, kicks off a six-week re-election campaign on Wednesday with opinion polls suggesting his hold on power will be weakened.

Canada's Trudeau, star dimmed by scandals, kicks off tough re-election campaign

Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson said on Friday he took full responsibility for the role he played during the campaigning leading up to the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union and for the political impasse that followed.

Boris Johnson: 'I take personal responsibility for the vote to leave the EU'

President Donald Trump campaign raised $24.8 million in the less-than 24 hours after formally kicking off his re-election campaign. Watch this video to know more.

Trump campaign raises $24.8 mn on the day of his campaign launch

Microphones fell silent as weeks of high-octane poll campaigning in the national capital, that had all elements of a political soap opera, ended Friday evening. The campaigning witnessed an attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, acrimonious exchanges between the AAP and the BJP over allegations of horse-trading, rivals jabbing at one another over alleged discrepancies in affidavits and even a candidate of the ruling party in Delhi breaking down in a press conference.

High-pitched poll campaign in Delhi ends as city votes on Sunday 

US Senator Elizabeth Warren has hired the largest campaign staff in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, quickly building a payroll that far exceeds her Democratic rivals, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Elections Commission.

Elizabeth Warren builds largest United States presidential campaign staff

Concerts and mass prayers bring lengthy election campaign to close in Indonesia

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley Sunday launched the party's campaign themes for the Lok Sabha polls and asserted that the choice for people in the elections will be between the "cohesive and tested" government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and "chaos and mahamilawat" offered by the Opposition.

BJP launches campaign themes, says choice between decisive Modi & Opposition's chaos

Intensifying his 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' (I too am watchman) campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 31 will interact with people, who have pledged their support to the campaign, from 500 places across the country.

PM Modi to interact with people on March 31 over 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' campaign

Jordanian initiative provides human hair wigs to children with cancer

Female Ugandan activists on Thursday slammed a government campaign to use "curvy women" as a tourism "product", which has sparked a furore in the east African nation.

Uganda wanted to draw tourists with 'curvy women', it got outry instead

Facebook said Thursday it took down hundreds of accounts from Iran that were part of a vast manipulation campaign operating in more than 20 countries. The world's biggest social network said it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts "for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour tied to Iran.

Facebook takes down over 700 pages for engaging in Iran-led manipulation campaign

Saudi Arabia has ended a sweeping crackdown on corruption ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that it said had recovered more than $106 billion through settlements with scores of senior princes, ministers and top businessmen.

$106 billion recovered through princes, businessmen in corruption crackdown: Saudi Arabia

Roger Stone, an ally of President Donald Trump and a longtime Republican operative, did not rule out on Sunday cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

Roger Stone open to talk with Mueller in Russia probe

Baloch Republican Party (BRP) workers held a seven-day awareness campaign outside the United Kingdom Prime Minister's office in London to highlight the unending killings, enforced disappearances, and alleged human rights violations in Balochistan.

Baloch activists hold awareness campaign in London to highlight issue of missing persons

Kamala Harris: First Indian-origin black woman to contest US presidential election

There is no opposition candidate for prime minister, hundreds of people have been arrested and incumbent premier Sheikh Hasina stands accused of ignoring democratic checks on her power, but Bangladesh began campaigning Monday for a year-end election.

Campaigning underway in Bangladesh polls amid opposition arrests

After a high-voltage campaign that saw war of words among contending parties, Telangana is set for Assembly polls on Friday with the Congress-led alliance challenging the ruling TRS, and the BJP seeking to make it a triangular contest.

After high-voltage campaign, Telangana set for Assembly poll

Two weeks into a showdown between rival prime ministers, the Sri Lankan president's party admitted for the first time Friday that it does not have a majority to get its candidate through a parliamentary vote of confidence.

Sri Lanka president Sirisena short of votes in crisis campaign

The Congress has identified 5 major issues in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on which Congress President Rahul Gandhi will build a stark contrast between the Congress and the BJP.

Come December and Congress to go into campaign overdrive

The Shiv Sena is the BJP's oldest political ally but one that the BJP has been having serious trouble with in recent days. The Shiv Sena has said it will not fight the 2019 elections with the BJP as an ally

Amit Shah visits Shiva Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, reaches out to oldest, most difficult ally

Trump has described the infiltration allegations as being potentially 'bigger than Watergate'. Democrats say he is attempting to undermine the year-old investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with his campaign

Trump says FBI or Justice Department may have spied on presidential campaign

Trump stopped short of accusing the FBI of spying on his campaign, instead citing unnamed reports that at least one FBI representative was 'implanted' for political purposes into his campaign

Trump suggests FBI may have infiltrated his campaign

The counsel for the UIDAI told the court that should the Aadhaar programme succeed — should it turn into a foolproof way to authenticate someone's identity — the smart card companies would go out of business

Google, smart card companies do not want Aadhaar to succeed: UIDAI to Supreme Court

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being held in police custody over campaign financing, according to reports.

Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy 'arrested over campaign financing'

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