Reuters

After enduring one of the worst moments of his career when he lost his second bid for the Labour leadership in 2015, Andy Burnham spoke of the pain of being "rejected by people you know" and left for Manchester to escape London politics.

Sao Tome and Principe is voting in a presidential election on Sunday, with incumbent Carlos Vila Nova seeking a new five-year term in the small, cocoa-producing island nation despite recently falling out with its most powerful political party.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday he may now potentially have an opportunity for changes to his cabinet, a statement coming after the resignation of a top politician over the weekend.

Rare protests erupted in Ukraine on Thursday over the dismissal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov as a dispute between the reformer and Kyiv's top general spilled into the open during the president's second overhaul of his wartime cabinet in a year.

Zambia's former Vice President Guy Scott, who in 2014 became Africa's first white head of state in two decades when he briefly served as acting president, has died at the age of 82, the government said on Wednesday.

Former Senegalese President Macky Sall will travel to Senegal on Friday, his first public visit to the country since leaving office as he campaigns for the post of U.N. secretary-general.

David Sanchez, the brother of Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, was convicted of administrative misconduct on Tuesday and banned from holding public office for nine years over his appointment to a senior cultural post by the provincial government of Badajoz in 2017.

Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira was moved back to prison last Friday following a decision by the West African country's military court, his family told Reuters.

Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war Russian politician who attempted to run against President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 presidential election, said on Monday he had been detained by police, days after being designated a "foreign agent" by authorities.

Moldova's pro-European President Maia Sandu has nominated 44-year-old financier Vasile Tofan to be the country's prime minister, Sandu told a press conference on Saturday.

Spain's High Court placed Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's former chief of staff and postmaster general under investigation on Friday as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe, ordering police to seize and analyse his mobile phone data.

Senegal's top court has struck down changes to the country's constitution that would have altered the balance of power in government, ruling against an amendment adopted by parliament last month.