Around the world, incumbents faced electoral challenges. How did they fare?
In 2024 elections around the world incumbents faced stiff challenges from unsettled electorates and often lost power.
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2024: The year of global elections
Billions of people around the world voted in elections across more than 60 countries this past year. The results provide an assessment of the state of electoral democracy on a global level.
Sudan's biggest refugee camp was already struck with famine. Now it's being shelled
The siege, blamed on the Rapid Support Forces, has sparked a new humanitarian catastrophe and marks an alarming turning point in the Darfur region, already overrun by violence.
People power's unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception?
The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.
At least 2 are dead and 60 injured after a car plowed into a German Christmas market
Police in Germany say they've closed a Christmas market after reports of a car driving at speed into a crowd. Authorities say the driver has been apprehended, but have not confirmed it was an attack.
A closer look at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's consequential year
It's been a year for Israel's Netanyahu. He's prosecuted the deadliest war since Israel's creation and become the first sitting prime minister to face trial in a long running corruption investigation.
U.S. ambassador to South Korea talks about President Yoon's future
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Philip Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, about the tension surrounding President Yoon Suk Yeol's political future after he declared martial law.
Germans mourn the 5 killed and 200 injured in the attack on a Christmas market
A Saudi doctor drove into a market teeming with holiday shoppers in Magdeburg, an official said, as people mourned the victims and their shaken sense of security. Some 200 people were injured.
Malaysia plans to restart a private search for the missing Flight MH370
Over a decade later, none of the bodies of the 239 passengers and crew members aboard have been recovered.