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Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning a second general election in less than nine months. His Syriza party will form a coalition government of 155 seats with its old partner, the Independent Greeks which...

A “vindicated” Alexis Tsipras hailed what he called a “clear victory” for his left-wing Syriza party in the Greek parliamentary elections in front of crowds of jubilant supporters in Athens on Monday adding that his party now had a “crystal clear...

The third largest number of votes was for the Golden Dawn, the neo-fascist party, which was polling at 7.3 percent, about 1 percentage point higher than in January’s election.

Tsipras called the snap election to gain a new mandate after his government failed to reverse a €85bn bailout deal with European Union lenders, which would force the Greek state to continue heavy cuts to jobs and services.

Tsipras, who’d resigned as prime minister a month ago, asked voters for a second chance, and against all odds, he got it.

A new CNN/ORC poll released over the weekend shows her surging from near the bottom of the pack to second place behind Donald Trump.

Syriza plans to govern in coalition with the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, the partner Tsipras chose after winning the last general election in January.

Rep. Pete King, who has been critical of the Muslim community in this country for not denouncing terrorism, disagreed with Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson‘s view that a Muslim should not be president.

Around mid-August, as Trump’s poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation.

A solid performance in Wednesday night’s GOP debate has now put Carly Fiorina into second place in the latest national poll, with 15 percent of the vote, while front-runner Donald Trump maintains strong, if diminished, support with a 24-percent share of those polled. That,...

As those measures are felt, I can imagine resentment building toward the prime minister, especially after reports that his eldest son was enrolled at one of Greece’s most prestigious and expensive private schools and that Tsipras and his wife Peristera flew off to a summer...

Trudeau took up all the shrillness and anger in the room.

With almost all votes counted, Syriza had won more than 35%.

“Most of the other candidates were fairly equal”. I know Bernie, I respect his enthusiastic and intense advocacy of his ideas. Sanders’s campaign has secured a venue Sunday that can accommodate 2,000 people. A protest led by an organization called AllowDebate...

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning the country’s fifth election in six years. “We won’t recover from the struggle by magic, but it can happen with hard work”, he added.