Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, said 20-30,000 Black women were trying to join a call Sunday evening in support of Kamala Harris’ presidential bid, a show of grassroots support for nascent campaign. Speaking to MSNBC, Beatty sai...
Cyprus Election Head To Runoff: On Sunday, February 5, 2023, The presidential election to decide Cyprus's next and eighth president is poised to enter its second week, with former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides emerging as the top runner but failing to garner enough support for an outr...
He rose quickly to become head of his trade union and led major strikes in the 1970s that challenged the then-military dictatorship. In 1980, he co-founded the Workers’ Party, standing as its candidate for president nine years later. Lula lost three presidential bids from 1989 to 1998, ...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named the Deputy Head of the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm Esmail Qaani as its new commander replacing Qasem Soleimani who was killed in a pre-dawn US strike in Baghdad. Following this incident, tens of thousands of people took to ...
[48] In the upcoming 2008 presidential election, the Republican Party candid- ate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, will face the Demo- cratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the first African American to head a major political party's presidential ticket. Government and ...
Some favorites, just off the top of my head: 1. Who killed Jimmy Hoffa, and where is he?2. What happened to Amelia Earhart? 3. What the hell crashed to the ground at Roswell?4. Did anyone else shoot Kennedy?5. Who was Jack the Ripper? And if we have time left over, where did...
This is the first instance since independence, of a three-star Lieutenant General rank officer taking over as a four-star General after retirement. The Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces (CDS) is the military head and permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC)...
candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba. Miguel is the first leader outside the Castro dynasty to lead the country since the 1959 revolution. Raul Castro will remain head of the Communist party, designated by the constitution as “the superior guiding force of society and the ...
In 1983 Islam Karimov was appointed Minister of Finance of Uzbekistan, in 1986 – Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Deputy Head of Government – and simultaneously Chairman of the State Planning Committee. Till mid eighties few dared to assume that a simple State Planning Committee off...
The governor of Qatar's central bank believes the country's economy will be able to fully withstand any financial shocks brought on by the dispute in the Gulf.