Manifestos are important in any election, but especially so in the U.K. During Britain’s last election in 2017, the disastrous launch of the ruling Conservative Party’s manifesto cost them the parliamentary majority that they had hoped to expand. Conversely, the opposition Labour...

 Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) will on Saturday announce the winner of a party leadership ballot. After the result, the first task will be to decide whether to quit the ruling coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc. The oldest party in Germany is in turmoil...

Lebanon's outgoing prime minister announced Tuesday that he will not head the next government, a move he said aims to expedite the formation a new cabinet in the protest-hit country. Saad Hariri had submitted his administration's resignation on October 29, bowing to popular pressure from a...

 Britain’s opposition Labour Party has squeezed the governing Conservatives’ opinion poll lead to 11 points from 18 over the last week, a survey by Kantar showed on Tuesday, ahead of a Dec. 12 election. Support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives fell 2 points to...