Bulgarian parties struggle to form government

Bulgarian parties tried to cobble together a government on Monday after an election delivered a split parliament and left the European Union's poorest country in political stalemate. Other parties were reluctant to

Moderate Rafsanjani joins Iran election race

Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran's election race on Saturday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades.