Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Site where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death near Yamato Saidaiji Station in Nara Prefecture on July 8, 2022. Abe went on a stumping tour for supporting his party member candidate in the House of Councillors election. ¬ 67-year-old Abe has been shot in the chest and has been confirmed dead at […]

The former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western Japanese city of Nara. Abe, the country’s longest-serving prime minister until he resigned in 2020, was flown to hospital by helicopter after the attack. His death was first reported by the public broadcaster […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on May 4, 2020. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / Pool / AFP) Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot at a campaign event on Friday, a government spokesman said, as local media reported the ex-leader was showing […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the opening ceremony of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021. – COP26, running from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow will be the biggest climate conference since the 2015 Paris summit and is seen as crucial in setting worldwide emission […]

Embattled British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party and effectively as prime minister. He announced his resignation Thursday afternoon at 10, Downing Street, London. However, he will remain in office until the Conservative Party elects a new leader who will also assume office as prime minister. That is […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered two shock departures from his government Tuesday, including his finance minister, as civil war erupted in the high command of the ruling Conservative Party. Rishi Sunak quit as chancellor of the exchequer and Sajid Javid resigned as health secretary, with both saying they could no longer tolerate the culture […]

President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool) Share U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris created new uncertainty on Wednesday about President Joe Biden’s intentions to run for re-election in 2024, pulling back from a definitive statement she had made earlier in […]

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (L) greets Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, during an audience at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 29, 2022. (Photo by Jane Barlow / Pool / AFP) Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday met Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the day […]

Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr.(C) is proclaimed by Senate President Vicente Sotto (L) and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco as duly-elected president at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, suburban Manila on May 25, 2022. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP) Ferdinand Marcos Jr was Wednesday proclaimed the next Philippine president after a landslide […]

In this file photo taken on September 22, 2012, Myanmar’s member of parliament Aung San Suu Kyi attends an event in Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York. – Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hear the verdict in her incitement trial on November 30, 2021, the first in a catalogue […]