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In the elections to the Upper House of the Irish Parliament held yesterday, the centre-left party Sinn Fein came first, according to an exit poll, narrowly ahead of centre-right Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Counting of the votes is not due to start until tomorrow, so the official results will have to wait.more

Today, Icelanders will elect 63 representatives to the world's oldest parliament, the Althing, which dates back to 930. Polls show victory for the opposition social democratic Alliance. Several Poles, who are the largest migrant group on the island, are on the electoral lists of various parties.more

Polling stations have opened across Ireland this morning after a three-week election campaign. Fine Gael's Simon Harris, Fianna Fail's Micheal Martin and Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald are all battling it out to become Ireland's next taoiseach - though no party has put forward enough candidates for a majority, meaning a coalition will be inevitable.more

The latest poll shows that the three main Irish parties are evenly matched ahead of tomorrow's elections to Dail Eireann, the lower house of parliament. Prime Minister Simon Harris has assessed this election as a ‘tight race’.more

American social media has been flooded by a wave of fake posts about celebrities who would emigrate from the USA because of Donald Trump's presidential election win. Names mentioned in this context include: Miley Cyrus, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda or Taylor Swift.more

Millionaires sympathetic to the Democratic Party are ‘lining up’ to leave the US after Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the UK's ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported yesterday, quoting data from a firm that advises wealthy investors.more

Ireland will hold a general election on November 29, Prime Minister Simon Harris has announced, according to AFP. His centre-right Fine Gael (FG) party has a good chance of retaining power for a fourth consecutive term.more

"The Economist" writes today, commenting on the results of the US elections, that Donald Trump's victory will shake the world and may induce aggression from Russia and China. The rule of the Republican candidate will be costly for Washington's allies, and especially for Europe - the weekly predicts.more

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Donald Trump has won the election and will become the 47th president of the United States, according to partial election results and analysis. The celebrity billionaire has become an era-defining figure ran for president as the candidate of the “forgotten people".more

Donald Trump wins the presidential election in the United States - the AP reported today, citing its own calculations. The Republican candidate won 277 electoral votes, or seven more than the minimum required. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris currently has 224 electoral votes, according to AP.more

The polls have closed in Hawaii, the last of the 50 US states, which means that voting in this year's US presidential election has ended, AP reported today. Most US news agencies and media predict that Donald Trump will win.more

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' projected electoral votes (226) give her an advantage over Republican candidate Donald Trump (219), according to a CNN poll Monday. Winning the election requires at least 270 electoral votes.more

For Donald Trump, the stakes in the upcoming election are particularly high. If he wins, he will be the first convicted criminal to gain access to nuclear codes. If he loses, he faces more humiliating trials and even prison, the Guardian reported.more

The British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" presented on Friday the final predictions of its journalists regarding the result of the US elections, assuming Donald Trump will win by a narrow majority. With the reservation that in a close race the predictions are based largely on hunches.more

Italian political scientist Prof. Vittorio Emanuele Parsi assessed for PAP that the world, and especially Europe, must prepare for a possible victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in the US. He emphasized that it is difficult to predict the consequences of such a decision, including whether Ukraine will be "abandoned" by Washington.more

Democrat Kamala Harris' lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential race has shrunk to one percentage point at 44 per cent to 43 per cent. - According to a Reuters/Ipsos election poll released yesterday.more

Nearly half (49%) of Americans believe Donald Trump is a fascist, according to a poll released by ABC. His rival, Kamala Harris, is viewed the same way by 22%.more

With 11 days to go before the US presidential election, the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains close – each is on 48 percent, according to a New York Times poll published on Friday. Harris was slightly ahead in early October.more

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has played down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the US presidential election. The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation into alleged "blatant foreign interference".more

Currently, neither candidate for president of the United States has a clear lead, but polls and some early voting data indicate trends favoring former President Donald Trump. The presidential election will be held on November 5.more

With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald's, where he again accused Harris of lying about having previously worked at the fast-food chain.more

A British Labour Party activist announced on LinkedIn that almost a hundred of her colleagues will be campaigning for Kamala Harris in key states in the US. Republicans expressed outrage, and Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Elon Musk claims that this is an illegal procedure.more

My presidency will not be a continuation of Biden's presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday in an interview with the right-wing Fox News - the first in her career. Harris promised to take into account the suggestions of Republicans and admitted that the immigration system in the US is flawed.more

An IBRIS poll conducted for Rzeczpospolita shows that if the presidential election had been held last Sunday - it would have been won by Rafał Trzaskowski. He would have been followed by Karol Nawrocki as the potential candidate of the Law and Justice party (PiS), and in third place would have been Sejm Speaker Szymon Hołownia.more