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Jeb Bush: 'I will run to win'
Jeb Bush jumped headlong into the presidential race, insisting "America deserves better" after eight years of Barack Obama.
16 June 2015
Bush ready to jump into presidential campaign
The campaign logo is ready, so is the big speech, and his message is taking shape: Jeb Bush is about to join the crowded Republican field running for president in 2016.
15 June 2015
Burundi opposition denounces election commission
Burundi's opposition late Friday slammed the election commission for steering the country towards a controversial presidential vote next month.
13 June 2015
Clinton to launch formal campaign with New York rally
Hillary Clinton formally launches her bid to become America's first woman president, holding in New York her first big campaign rallyю
13 June 2015
Nazarbayev congratulates Vejonis on Latvian presidency
President of Kazakhstan has extended his congratulations to the newly elected President of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis.
09 June 2015
Colombia limits presidents to single term
Colombia's Congress has voted to bar presidents from seeking re-election.
05 June 2015
Jeb Bush announces June 15, Rick Perry all in for 2016
Jeb Bush appeared all but certain to launch his White House bid on June 15, as fellow Republican and former Texas governor Rick Perry plunged into a crowded presidential pool.
05 June 2015
Latvia elects Green party's Vejonis as president
Latvia's parliament elected Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis as the Baltic state's new president, giving the 28th member of the European Union a Green party head of state.
04 June 2015
Republican-turned-Democrat Lincoln Chafee joins 2016 US race
Lincoln Chafee, a former US senator and Rhode Island governor who was a longtime Republican before switching to the Democratic Party, launched his 2016 presidential campaign.
04 June 2015
Nazarbayev congratulates Duda on winning Polish presidential elections
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated the winner of the presidential elections in Poland Andrzej Duda.
31 May 2015
FIFA marathon man Blatter comes through a new storm
A new election triumph in the midst of a corruption scandal established FIFA president Sepp Blatter as the politician who can come through any storm.
30 May 2015
O'Malley: Clinton foil or formidable Democrat contender?
Maryland ex-governor Martin O'Malley is all but certain to unveil his White House campaign, amid debate about whether he is a viable contender or merely a foil for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
29 May 2015
Burundi condemns foreign pressure over political crisis
Burundi's government condemned mounting diplomatic pressure over President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid to stand for a third consecutive term.
26 May 2015
New Polish president may spell eurosceptics' return to power
Polish voters have opted for change and chosen the conservative and relatively unknown lawyer Andrzej Duda as their next president, spelling a possible return to power of his eurosceptic mentor.
26 May 2015
Andrzej Duda: heir apparent to Poland's conservative Kaczynski twins
Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old conservative MEP and lawyer who won Poland's cliffhanger presidential election on Sunday, has strong ties to the powerful Kaczynski twins.
25 May 2015
Turkey's Erdogan rallies supporters in Germany
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied thousands of supporters in Germany, weeks before his Islamic-rooted party will contest June parliamentary elections.
11 May 2015
Nigmatulin appointed head of presidential administration
Nurlan Nigmatulin has been appointed chief of the presidential administration of Kazakhstan.
06 May 2015
I will protect national interests and wellbeing of citizens: Nazarbayev
Nursultan Nazarbayev delivered a speech at the official inauguration ceremony.
04 May 2015
Nazarbayev inaugurated
The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan has set a date for inauguration of the country's President to April 29.
30 April 2015
Nazarbayev talks of his greatest accomplishment
The newly elected president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke about the time when Kazakhstan just gained independence and what the elections mean to him.
30 April 2015