Lara Pringle was one of eight women who stood down from the Lib Dem group on Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire after ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across ... A Swedish court sentenced on Tuesday a far-right politician to four months in jail for two counts of “incitement against an ethnic group ...

Republican Sen. Deb Fischer will win reelection in Nebraska, defeating an unexpectedly strong challenge from independent Dan Osborn, CNN projects.

Veteran politician and a former Lord Mayor of Dublin Independent councillor Christy Burke is not going to run for election in the upcoming general election.

An Aboriginal Northern Territory politician says he believes racism is worsening in Darwin after he was asked to show ...

A Northern Territory politician says he believes racism is worsening in Darwin after a string of recent interactions left him ...

Confident and well-mannered, Botswana's new President Duma Boko carries the traits of a highly trained human rights lawyer.

Missoula representative Zephyr retained her seat, winning 83 per cent of the vote. Zephyr has become an increasingly ...

Being told the nuclear tests were “clean”, Morgant-Cross didn’t learn about the legacy of the nuclear bombs until she was 30 ...

Tensions rise in the Aheri constituency as independent candidates threaten to split votes between father and daughter, ...

Lindiwe Sisulu, a prominent South African politician and the daughter of anti-apartheid icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu, ...

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has proclaimed she will return to Russia to run for president.