BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general on Wednesday, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. Rutte’s appointment was sealed by NATO ambassadors during a meeting at the 32-nation alliance’s headquarters in […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing president pledged Friday to press ahead with j udicial reforms despite nervousness among investors and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should go slow. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would pursue 20 constitutional changes after his Morena party won a two-thirds majority in Congress in […]
Mexico’s outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a veteran leftist and self-proclaimed anti-corruption fighter who remains widely popular after nearly six years in office. On Sunday, the country of 129 million will choose his successor. Here are five things to know about the 70-year-old, who is preparing to retire in October. – ‘Political animal’ […]
Whenever she ran for re-election, Shawnee County Clerk Cyndi Beck found herself dealing with the theft of her campaign signs by fans of the rock singer Beck. Those signs featured the word “Beck” in big red letters against a white background. Fans of the singer and his band would simply cut off the bottom and […]
FILE – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and then Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, greet supporters at a rally in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo, July 1, 2019. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate, slipped up during a campaign speech Friday, May 10, 2024, and said López Obrador was motivated by “personal ambition,” but […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — There were plenty of reasons to criticize Mexico’s first presidential debate leading up to the June 2 election. The format was a bit constrictive, and the candidates’ timer wasn’t working at some points, leaving it unclear how much longer they could speak. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday he […]
Mar. 28—CHEYENNE — All of Cheyenne’s outgoing mail will be sorted in Denver in the future amid sweeping, nationwide changes in the United States Postal Service. While USPS says this change will result in no layoffs and will save taxpayers money, it does nothing to alleviate some concerns community members and postal workers raised at […]
Lakeeta B., a mother of two kids living in Washington, D.C., said she began noticing a change in her outgoing daughter’s interests and demeanor when she was around 14 years old. Her daughter was a cheerleader, a gymnast and “a really, really good kid,” she told Atlanta Black Star. But Lakeeta’s daughter soon became someone […]
(Bloomberg) — Ghana’s outgoing president, Nana Akufo-Addo, is trying to close the chapter on the country’s debt crisis as his deputy and favored successor gears up to contest Dec. 7 elections. Most Read from Bloomberg The West African nation is reworking its debt in line with the conditions of a $3 billion bailout it got […]
Taras Stepanenko, a football player for Shakhtar Donetsk and the Ukrainian national team, has reacted to the dismissal of Valerii Zaluzhnyi as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an Instagram story on Feb. 8. Read also: Ukrainian tennis star salutes departing military chief as new commander takes over defense “Thank you for […]
Outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has begun a two-day visit to Bosnia with a stop in Srebrenica, where he paid his respects to victims of the 1995 genocide. The Netherlands has long wrestled with the legacy of the massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust. Dutch troops served as UN peacekeepers in the […]
Demitria, 19 Demitria, 19, is the life of the party. Demitria (“Demi”) has an enthusiastic, very outgoing and well-spoken personality. She is mindful of and continues to work on her boundary setting and is not afraid to reach out for help when needed. Demi is very good at expressing her opinion while connecting to others’ […]