Every Magna Bureau story on elections: 22 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot.
NewsFrance now pays more than Italy and Greece to borrow: the OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points for the first time since 2012, as debt nears 119% of GDP.
NewsSeventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday. With no arrests and a third massacre days
NewsFourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests. His own man, Miloš Vučević, takes over — and the Balkans' most durabl
NewsThe Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out. Netanyahu denies both, flew sec
NewsGermany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
NewsFor the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen le
NewsLula leads Flávio Bolsonaro 42% to 37% in the BTG/Nexus poll six days before the first round — but the October 25 runoff is a statistical tie, and the man runni
NewsDeputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsOn Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaste
NewsLecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points. Paris is about to find
NewsThe September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta
NewsMid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate
NewsHis Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23…
NewsThree months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…
NewsThe president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsFor the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on electi
NewsAtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsAt $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France. As the 10-year OAT flirts with 5% and the spread over Germany hits crisis-era wides, the bond vigilantes are
NewsThe CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's histor
NewsOn Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds. Inside the Com
