Brazil's leftwing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially starts campaign to unseat right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 16:00 GMT, January 26, 2022.

US President Joe Biden, early in his tenure, said he had been elected to solve problems and to reverse the damage caused by his megalomaniac predecessor, Donald Trump, at home and abroad.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has chastised "some of the organizers" of a gathering in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi region, pushing for a full normalization of ties with Israel.

Media and experts opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran tend to display Iran's presidency as a formality and the president as a façade to an actually totalitarian system of governance.

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been sworn in for another seven-year term after winning the May election.

The former Bolivian president has admitted to the country’s prosecutor’s office that she lacked legal authorization as per the country’s constitution to assume presidency.

Ecuador's National Assembly has elected a representative of the Pachakutik indigenous political party as its president for the next two years, with the support of allies of conservative President-elect Guillermo Lasso.

As Iran is gearing up for its next presidential election in June, let’s take a brief look at the office of the presidency.

As the head of government, the President of Iran is the highest-ranking authority after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.