The former Afghan government's ambassador to the UN can't represent Afghanistan and the Afghan people, and the current interim government has what it takes to represent
The polls have closed in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (SAR) 2021 Election Committee's (EC) subsector ordinary elections, the first elections since
Thai Prime MinisterPrayutChan-o-cha and five cabinet ministers Saturday survived an opposition vote of no confidence in parliament that claimed the government has mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Democrats-held House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to advance a bipartisan 1-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and approve a 3.5-trillion-dollar budget resolution, breaking the stalemate due
An advisory panel with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control voted Friday to recommend a third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people with weakened immune systems.Fr
The New York Stock Exchange, New York, U.S. /CFP Major U.S. stock indices retreated from records on Monday as investors weighed progress on U.S. infrastructure legislation against concerns abo
02:24 An effort to investigate former political leaders in Mexico appears to have stopped even before it could get started.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador held a national
Sweden's parliament speaker on Monday proposed Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven as prime minister.It came a week after Lofven resigned as prime minister on June 28 following a non-confidence vote
02:22 We may have just had a set of mid-term elections in Mexico, but the country is now a month away from another big vote - on whether the country can send former presidents to prison
Mexico's Supreme Court struck down laws which criminalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday evening.The decisive 8-3 ruling comes after advocates pushed for d
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks during a weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2021. /Reuters U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introdu
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Monday he had handed in his notice of resignation, giving parliament's speaker the job of finding a new prime minister.Lofven lost a no-confidence vote in
Senate Democrats failed to get the 100-member body to hear a sweeping voting rights reform bill known as the For the People Act on Tuesday.Due to the threat of a filibuster they needed 60 votes to ge
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven lost a no-confidence vote in the parliament on Monday.The vote was put forwardlast week by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats over a proposal ofLofven's Social
Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said Friday that China sincerely hopes that all parties in Myanmar can resolve differences through political dialogue as soon as pos
The UN General Assembly unanimously elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary-general on Friday, giving him another five years at the helm of the 193-member organization beginning on Jan
01:47 Peru’s leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has claimed victory this week, after holding the narrowest of leads following a lengthy vote count. But Castillo has not been