BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has postponed by a week consultations aimed at choosing a prime minister to form a new government to tackle the country's worst economic crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war, the presidency said on Wednesday. Aoun had been due...
By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) - The world's longest-standing leader, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, will run for office again in November elections, his party announced on Friday, likely extending a 43-year tenure that began when he snatched power in a 1...
Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), speaks during the assembly's annual discourse at the UN headquarters in New York on Nov. 16, 2023. In a world shadowed by the turmoil in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, the urgency for reforming the UN Securit...
President Biden answers questions on Israel, efforts to locate American hostages in Gaza, the state of the war in Ukraine and more during a wide-ranging conversation with Scott Pelley.
But while Duterte has been the inspiration forprotest marchesagainst the death penalty and his war on drugs, the leader haswith some Filipinos, who support his anti-drug crackdown. Duterte made this comment during a September 2016 press conference where he. Six million Jews were...
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American leadership abroad:Foreign policy typically takes a backseat during State of the Union speeches, but for reasons not entirely within his control, Biden is a foreign policy president in a moment of deep global tensions. TheRussia-Ukraine wargrinds on, with the future of American assistance...
Speaking to Tapper, Netanyahu likened himself to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, claiming the arrest warrants were like putting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the docks alongside the American wartime president who oversaw the US’s mobilization during World War II. ...
It’s that spirit – a faith in reason, and enterprise, and the primacy of right over might – that allowed us to resist the lure of fascism and tyranny during the Great Depression; that allowed us to build a post-World War II order with other democracies, an order based not just on...
President Herbert Hoover had the worst average annual GDP growth rate so far at -9.3%. That’s because in October 1929, during Hoover's first year of his term, thestock market crashedand led to the Great Depression, the most severe and longest economic recession in modern world history. ...