Cuban leader Raul Castro on Tuesday was re-elected the first secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) at the the final plenary session of PCC's seventh Congress, Cuba's official state news agency Prensa Latina reported.
Starting next Tuesday, all the current eight candidates will speak one by one at an open hearing of the UN General Assembly to shed light on why they are seeking to become the next UN secretary-general.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for "a prompt and impartial investigation" into the Saturday airstrike on a market in Yemen that killed at least 32 civilians.
The official KCNA news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) disclosed that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Pyongyang next Monday, which was denied by the UN Tuesday night.
U.S. President Barack Obama's defense secretary nominee on Wednesday pledged to protect the nation and its allies in a turbulent world.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday nominated members of the economic team for her second presidential term starting from January 2015.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday announced resignation of Chuck Hagel as the country's defense secretary, making the first change to his cabinet after the Democrats' heavy losses in both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections early this month.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday replaced four senior secretaries to her as part of efforts to regain public confidence lost after the ferry sinking disaster.
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung Thursday announced the formation of a task force led by the chief secretary, which will prepare for the public consultation on constitutional development.
The samples collected by UN inspectors from the site of the alleged Aug. 21 chemical weapons attacks in Syria were shipped from The Hague, the Netherlands, Monday and will reach their designated laboratories "within hours, " said a UN spokesman.
The reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria were discussed on Sunday during a phone conversation between UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and Secretary-general of the Arab League (AL) Nabil ElAraby, who shared "grave concern" about the attack and its implications.
Hu Chunhua has been appointed secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), replacing Wang Yang, the CPC Central Committee announced Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he won't nominate Susan Rice, the current American ambassador to the United Nations, as his next secretary of state.
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