Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Former US President Donald Trump (L) applauds Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano during a campaign rally in support of Mastriano and Mehmet Oz for US Senate at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on September 3, 2022. (Photo by Ed Jones / AFP) Ex-president Donald Trump branded his successor Joe Biden an “enemy of the […]

Kremlin says his death a great loss Russia remembers ex-leader  The lying-in-state ceremony for the first and only President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, will take place on Saturday, September 3, in the House of the Unions in Moscow, between 10:00 and 14:00 Moscow time. Gorbachev Foundation spokesman, Vladimir Polyakov disclosed […]

Putin, as Russian president, met with Gorbachev several times Russian President Vladimir Putin offers his deepest condolences over the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Wednesday. “Vladimir Putin expresses his deepest condolences over the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the morning he will send a telegram with […]

Gorbachev was Soviet president for six years Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram on Wednesday with deep condolences to the family and friends of Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only USSR president who died at the age of 91 on Tuesday. The former leader died at the Central Clinical Hospital on August 30. “Mikhail […]

He changed history, but was wrong about ties with West – Russia The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91, will be buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery, the resting place of many prominent Russians. Reportedly, the Moscow hospital where the late leader died said he had been suffering from a long […]

President, Putin, Biden, others pay tribute to ex- Soviet Union leader President Muhammadu Buhari has described the last leader of the former Soviet Union, Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, as “a courageous reformer, who will be remembered for years to come because of his immeasurable contributions to world peace and openness in his own once rigidly closed […]

In this file photo taken on October 31, 2009 former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev attends a commemorative event in Berlin. – Mikhail Gorbachev, the last surviving Cold War leader who helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, has died in Moscow at age 91.In power from 1985 to 1991, he […]

China has imposed unspecified sanctions on Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family members, the Foreign Ministry said in Beijing on Friday. “In disregard of China’s grave concerns and firm opposition, Pelosi insisted on visiting China’s Taiwan region. “This constitutes a gross interference in China’s internal affairs,’’ the ministry […]

U.S. President Joe Biden. Julie Bennett/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Julie Bennett / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP) The OPEC+ group of major oil exporters meets Wednesday to discuss its output strategy after US President Joe Biden lobbied Saudi Arabia to boost production to tame energy-fuelled inflation. The cartel led by Saudi […]

This handout photo taken and released by Malaysia’s Department of Information on August 2, 2022, shows Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi waving as she leaves the Parliament House after a meeting with Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur. – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kuala Lumpur for her second stop […]