A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

Fabian Schmidt, 34, a green card holder who has been in the US lawfully since his teens, was arrested March 7 for reasons that remain unclear when he returned from a brief trip abroad. Schmidt was ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is deeply saddened by the passing of Mr Ashwin Trikamjee, President of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha and Chairperson of the National Religious Leaders Forum. The ...

The Mexican president has earned respect for her calm ... the White House entitled “Look at the Results!”, implying that Mr Trump personally caused fentanyl flows at the American border ...

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Mexico, along with Canada, hit back with retaliatory tariffs. Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to appease Mr Trump, including by sending 10,000 national guard soldiers to the border ...

JAKARTA – Five months after stepping down as Indonesia’s president, Mr Joko Widodo has been kept busy by the queue of people keen to meet him at his house in Solo in Central Java, seeking his ...

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The agreement follows a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Mr Putin lasting at least 90 minutes on Tuesday, local time. It falls short of the immediate 30-day ceasefire proposed by ...

President Reagan’s unsuccessful effort to defund LSC put the spotlight on a prominent legal-aid activist, then an unknown young lawyer and wife of the governor of Arkansas. Hillary Rodham ...

President Donald Trump's pick to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Bryan Bedford, has had a decadeslong career as an airline executive, which includes running some of the largest ...

said he expected to discuss with Mr. Putin land and power plants that have been seized during the grinding three-year war. Zelenskyy says Ukraine would support a U.S. proposal President Volodymyr ...