Iceland Elects Europe's First Female-Majority Parliament More 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, 2021. Icelanders are voting in a general election dominated by climat...
South Korean parliament approves nomination of first female prime minister
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 ...
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, ...
Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition, the first woman ...
A 27-year-old female Chinese hiker, Dongying Qiu, went missing at Mt. Whitney, California in western U.S., since last Sunday. The rescuers are continuing to search for her and calling for all hikers to provide information. Oil prices keep rising ahead of OPEC meeting Oil prices settled hi...
She has sought to associate herself with another female Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who famously encouraged social mobility and ambition in the 1980s. Truss highlighted three priorities: 1) To get the UK working: She has promised to cut taxes to boost ...
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as the east African country's first female president. Zewde' appointment by the Ethiopian parliament's two houses came shortly after the official resignation of former President Mulatu Teshome, who ...
Indonesia's new Parliament has 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.
UAE parliament elects first female speaker Amal Abdullah Juma Karam Al-Qubaisi is elected as speaker of the United Arab mirates (UAE) Federal National Council, the first woman to hold such a top post in the country or any other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, in Abu Dhabi, ...