A Liberal candidate has wrested an inner-city seat from the Greens in one of two state by-elections, as the other political contest remains too close to call.

Labor appears set for an historic win in the NSW seat of Bega while the Liberals have suffered a swing against them in former premier Gladys Berejiklian's seat of Willoughby in the state's Super Saturday by-elections.

US President Donald Trump has fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election.

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Exit polls showed that Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party has scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election.

France faces potential political deadlock after elections threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot ahead of the far right but no group winning a majority.

Democrats will stay in control of the US Senate next year after Democratic US Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, poll predictions show, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden.