The regime of the Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro must be 'more powerfully and efficiently surrounded.' This is what the Colombian President Iván Duque said at a meeting of Latin American...
US Vice President Mike Pence plans to meet opposition leader Juan Guaido of Venezuela in Bogota on Monday. He will do that at a meeting of the Lima Group, the...
The dismissed CEO of CBS does not seem impressed by the reputation damage suffered. According to Page Six, Les Moonves has just traveled to the Caribbean islands with other media magnates.
The former national security advisor to President Donald Trump only hears what punishment he will receive later. Michael Flynn has known that he lied to the FBI about his contacts with the...
The American former governor Chris Christie does not want to become a chief of staff in the White House. He was, according to insiders, the favorite to follow John Kelly.
John Kelly, the chief of staff of the White House, is stepping up before the end of the year. According to news agency Bloomberg, President Trump said that, without mentioning the name of a successor.
The Belgian prime minister Charles Michel has postponed a meeting with his vice premiers to have private conversations. The Belgian government is in crisis about the UN Migration Pact. Coalition partner N-VA is opposed to the pact.
Family man George Herbert Walker Bush will not mourn about it, but the 41st President of the United States, who died at the age of 94, will certainly be the man who did not finish the war against Saddam Hussein for younger Americans. That task was later reserved for his son, George W. Bush.
At least ten attackers attacked the Hamburg home of the German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Thursday night.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to interrupt her trip to Buenos Aires for the G20 summit on Thursday evening. After an hour of flying the pilot found technical problems with the Airbus over Dutch territory. Some electrical systems fell out. The aircraft turned and made a stopover in Cologne to allow the passengers to transfer to another aircraft.
South Korean Kim Jong-yang will be the new chairman of Interpol. According to the organization, he emerged as the winner in a vote at a conference in Dubai. Representatives of the 194 member states of the international police force meet there.
The British government has promised to publish economic forecasts about the Brexit. It concerns a comparison of three scenarios: a British departure from the EU with the current agreement in principle on the Brexit, the abrogation of the Brexit and a British withdrawal without a deal with the EU.
There will be a transition period from 21 months to the end of December 2020, when the United Kingdom leaves the EU on 29 March next year. At that time, an agreement on the future relationship should be concluded between the Union and the UK, but this period may be extended if necessary.
The party of the French President Emmanuel Macron, La République and Marche, wants to cooperate with the liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament, which includes the VVD and D66. Astrid Panosyan, a confidant of Macron, said Friday that he would like to work together at the party conference of the ALDE in Madrid 'for a better Europe.'
It looks like President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be working together again for the US presidential election in 2020. At a press conference, Trump asked Pence on Wednesday that he would like to be his' running mate 'again in two years' time.
The deposed Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras will be tried in the coming months together with seventeen other separatist Catalan leaders for his role in last year's unsuccessful attempt at retaliation.
US President Donald Trump does not intend to dismiss his Deputy Minister Rod Rosenstein (Justice). 'No, I do not do it,' Trump said to reporters on Monday when they asked if he was still planning to send the number two to the justice department home.
Where is Hongwei Meng, the CEO of Interpol? He has been missing since the end of September. That made the wife of the first and only Chinese chairman known in the history of the international police organization. Meng lives with her in Lyon, where the Interpol headquarters is located and, at the time of his missing, visited his homeland.
The number of victims of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit the northwest of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to more than four hundred.
US President Donald Trump outlines his planned meeting with Deputy Minister Rod Rosenstein (Justice). He would actually discuss his future with the president on Thursday, but according to the White House, due to the session on the Kavanaugh case, it was decided to postpone it.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced the former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to a fine of 300,000 euros and 12 months in jail in a professional case. The court declared Bemba rather guilty of bribery of witnesses.
Hungary receives support from neighboring Austria. The European Parliament wants the European Union to use the toughest criminal proceedings against Hungary. This can ultimately ensure that Hungary loses its voting rights in Europe. However, the Austrian populist government party FPÖ doubts whether the process has gone according to the rules.
In the presence of the American President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, the attacks of September 11, 2001, were commemorated in Shanksville.
The US Vice President and Secretary of State, Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, stressed Thursday that it was not the source of a controversial article about the White House under Trump.
A court in South Sudan sentenced ten soldiers of that country to prison sentences for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in 2016. The prison sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.
US President Donald Trump will not go to Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November for top talks with Asian leaders. In his stead, he sends Vice President Mike Pence. The White House has announced this on Friday.
Russia will no longer take American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2019 onwards. That has been announced by the Vice Prime Minister of Russia Yury Borisov.
The Iranian government has said that it has enough resources to deal with the consequences of the economic sanctions of the United States. The country will compensate any lower income due to the sanctions with additional income from the sale of oil and other natural resources.
The United States has set itself the goal of having a 'Space Force' operational by 2020. The formation of a sixth, 'extraterrestrial' part of the American armed forces is an old wish of Donald Trump. Vice President Mike Pence launched an ambitious plan for these space troops in the Pentagon on Thursday, provided there is sufficient political support.
