ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s lawmakers elected Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday as the country’s president for the second time. He is the widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto and the father of former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Zardari secured 411 votes from national and provincial lawmakers. His opponent, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who is backed […]
China’s foreign minister has accused the US of devising tactics to suppress China’s rise and criticised the Biden administration for adding more Chinese companies to its sanctions lists. Wang Yi, speaking to media during the annual meeting of China’s legislature on Thursday, said relations with the US have improved since presidents Xi Jinping and Joe […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister arrived Thursday in Kenya to try to salvage a plan to have the African country deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence. Kenya agreed in October to lead a U.N.-authorized international police force to Haiti, but the Kenyan High Court in […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who is currently on a visit to Odessa together with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, has expressed optimism about his country’s future in the European Union. “Two years ago, I could not have imagined that in 2024 there would be so many reasons to be proud to be European,” said […]
With its four-piece bathroom suite, queen-size bed and mini fridge, the untidy prison cell of the notorious leader of the Los Choneros gang, José Adolfo Macías, could have been in a hotel instead of one of Ecuador’s largest prison complexes. Picture released by the Ecuadorean Armed Forces showing Adolfo Macias, aka Fito, leader of the […]
As China grapples with the fallout from a $7 trillion stock decline, officials are gearing up to brief President Xi Jinping on measures to stabilize the market. This move signifies Beijing’s urgency to restore investor confidence and halt the market’s slide, which has erased a significant value from Hong Kong and China equities since their […]
A Ukrainian soldier preparing 155mm artillery shells in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on August 6, 2023.Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Denmark is sending all of its artillery to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said. Mette Frederiksen made the announcement while speaking at the Munich Security Conference. It comes as Ukraine faces severe munitions […]
The prime minister of the Bahamas, worried about the impact a spike in crime is having on this island-nation’s crucial tourism industry, is suggesting a peculiar solution: Get the crime stories off the front page. Prime Minister Philip Davis is blaming the country’s tourism woes on local media’s reporting on the rising homicide rate, which […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s finance minister on Sunday slammed the decision by financial ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade Israel’s credit rating, saying the announcement is a “political manifesto” that “did not include serious economic claims.” Moody’s dropped the rating on Israel’s debt on Friday, warning that the ongoing war in Gaza and a […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s finance minister on Sunday slammed the decision by financial ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade Israel’s credit rating, saying the announcement is a “political manifesto” that “did not include serious economic claims.” Moody’s dropped the rating on Israel’s debt on Friday, warning that the ongoing war in Gaza and a […]
Hijackers are once again targeting ships off Somalia’s coast and a recent spike in attacks has brought back memories from more than a decade ago. That was when armed Somali pirates scoured the waters, forcefully boarding vessels and raking in millions of dollars by demanding ransoms. That died down and all but disappeared once extensive […]
During an overnight attack on Ukraine, some Shahed drones flew as far as the western borders of the country, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ihnat said on national television on Jan. 29. There has been a lull in Russian aviation activity over the past few days. “This is due to various factors, in […]