Election officials are increasingly enlisting younger poll workers to address a shortage as baby boomers who long signed in voters and scanned ballots step away.
Crypto companies fighting for survival after a regulatory crackdown are spending heavily this year to get politicians they see as allies elected and to defeat those who are critical of the industry.
Support for Benny Gantz as Netanyahu’s main political challenger in Israel has waned amid perceptions that the war cabinet member has stayed too long in the prime minister’s emergency government and become part of the failures of the conflict with Hamas.
Scandal is clouding the electoral ambitions of Germany’s far-right AfD, with the party at risk of being relegated to a purely regional force concentrated in the former communist east.
