'Corrupt' PDP candidates dropped
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Nigeria's ruling party says it will replace all of its election candidates accused of corruption by the anti-graft agency.
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Kenya's Anti-Corruption Commission says its ability to investigate corrupt politicians has been sabotaged
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A senior campaign official says former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will drop his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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A Nigerian court has voided a report of the country's anti-graft agency which indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a business associate of corruption.
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Nigeria's vice president is on a list of names released by the anti-graft agency it says are too corrupt to run in elections.
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Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, an early entrant in the 2008 presidential race, is dropping his bid for the Democratic Party nomination, according to the Associated Press.
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EXPLOSIVE allegations of election bribery have engulfed Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson and a senior National Party senator. In a serious embarrassment for the Howard Government, Mr Anderson and Senator
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shock resignation sent his ruling party scrambling to find a new leader who could revive public support following an election defeat in July and a string of scandals.
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The two veteran lawmakers of the Democratic presidential race, Sens. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) and Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.), abandoned their candidacies after poor showings in last night's Iowa caucuses.
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TOKYO, Sept. 23 -- Desperate for competence, Japan's troubled ruling party on Sunday chose as its leader an admittedly un-charismatic party elder known for his dovish foreign policy and quiet political know-how.
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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has dropped more than 10 percentage points to 46 percent, a newspaper poll showed on Monday, a result likely to dampen prospects for an early general election.
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Taiwan&#39;s President Chen Shui-bian has resigned as chairman of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to take responsibility for an election setback.
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For presidential candidates, the post-Watergate system of financing campaigns with public money has become the great divide. Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race last week, is likely only the first to fall into the chasm.
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The mayor of the Russian Far East's largest city was stripped of his authority Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled Pacific port.
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, public broadcaster NHK reported, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.
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Nigeria's vice president was suspended by his party for three months because of corruption allegations, preventing him from running for president on the party's ticket, an official said Thursday.
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By Evelyn LeopoldUNITED NATIONS - Sri Lanka withdrew its candidate on Friday from the race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as all signs pointed to South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon getting ...Comment