South Korean parliament approves nomination of first female prime minister
Slovenia, on May 13, 2022. A new Slovenian parliament, elected at the general election on April 24, held its first session on Friday and for the first time in the country's history elected a female parliamentary speaker. Urska Klakocar Zupancic, a former judge, ...
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian parliament's two houses on Thursday appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as Ethiopia's first female president. Zewde was appointed as the east African country's incoming president following the official resignation of former President Mulatu Teshome on Thursday...
This set of pictures captures life on the campus of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School in the last days before the final showdown. Chinese hiker went missing at Mt. Whitney in west U.S. A 27-year-old female Chinese hiker, Dongying Qiu, went missing at Mt. Whitney, California in ...
Magdalena Andersson, Sweden's first female prime minister, stepped down on Wednesday just hours after her appointment. He resignation came after her coalition partner, the Greens, left the two-party minority government, following a budget defeat in the parliament. Andersson said "a ...
Iceland has elected Europe's first female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation. The Associated Press Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir speaks to the media after voting at a polling station in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday, Sept. 25,...
Samoa's first female prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa. [Image: yahoo.uk] Samoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office in a tent after she was locked out of parliament by her opponent, who has refused to step down. ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s new Parliament elected the country’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives after being sworn in Tuesday amid sometimes-violent protests against several new or proposed laws, including one that weakens the country’s anti-corruption agency. ...
It was ironically an illuminating display of female supremacy, whereby women weren’t held accountable for behaviour that men would never get away with. Behaviour that men wouldn’t let other men get away with. There were 32 ‘upvotes’ and only one ‘downvote’ for the video, but one or...
President Aleksandar Vucic announced that Ana Brnabic, 41, was nominated as the prime minister-designate, which could also make her the first female head of government in the country's history. Her cabinet needs formal approval by parliament next week. It was "a difficult decision reached ...