
Greek PM calls snap vote after heavy defeat for Syriza in EU elections
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap national elections after suffering a heavy defeat by the opposition conservatives in European Parliament elections on Sunday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap national elections after suffering a heavy defeat by the opposition conservatives in European Parliament elections on Sunday.

Despite a clear victory in the EU elections, Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz is set to lose his job on Monday.

The League emerged as Italy’s largest party in Sunday’s European parliamentary election, overtaking its coalition partner the 5-Star Movement, which lost a third of its voters in a year, exit polls said.

Following are early predictions of the results of the election to the European Parliament based on exit polls.

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) surged to a clear victory in Sunday’s European Parliament vote, a stamp of approval for the party’s nationalist, eurosceptic platform before a national election later in the year.

Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National party secured the most votes in France’s election to the European Parliament on Sunday, a result that will greatly strengthen her ability to build a far-right alliance in the European Union.

Pakistan on Thursday conducted a training launch of Shaheen-II, a surface-to-surface ballistic missile. However, Pakistani PM Khan sent a friendly message to Indian PM Modi after his election victory.

Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who is leading the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, told French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday that conditions for a ceasefire were not in place

The counting of votes was underway in India on Thursday for the just-concluded general elections, and early trends showed the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading the polls.

The last state visit to Austria under the elected government came from China. Whils busy to avert chaos in his country amid a scandal video, Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz tried to focus on topis probably more sustainable than his friendship to the right wing FPÖ.