American Vice President Mike Pence takes a notable guest to the Olympic Games in South Korea. According to the newspaper Washington Post, it concerns Fred Warmbier, the father of an American student who died after his imprisonment in North Korea.
Germany wants to compensate for the first time a large group of Holocaust survivors from Algeria. It is estimated that 25,000 Algerian Jews, most of whom live in France. Approximately 3900 of those affected live in Israel. The Algerian Jews would receive a one-time payment of 2556 euros.
Ecuadorians have determined by a referendum on Sunday that the president can only stay in office for two terms. This in particular prevents a return of former President Rafael Correa.
More and more Iranians are against the duty of women to wear a headscarf in public. This is shown by a message from the office of the president in which concerns are expressed about the development.
A controversial statement by the Polish Ryszard Czarnecki probably cost him his post as Vice-President of the European Parliament. The politician had compared his compatriot and fellow MEP Roza Thun with Polish Nazi laboratories who betrayed Jews in the Second World War.
The US Embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem before the end of next year. That said the American Vice President Mike Pence, who incidentally did not mention a date for the controversial transfer of the diplomatic post.
The American vice president Mike Pence will start a visit to the Middle East on Saturday. The trip had been postponed twice before, because Pence had to stay in Washington for the Senate vote on the Republicans' tax plan and because in the Middle East there was a heated reaction to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In Zimbabwe there are elections in four or five months. President Emmerson Mnangagwa said this during a trip to Mozambique, reports the Herald newspaper. It must be free and fair elections, according to the leader.
The Dutch government has not formally been informed of an extension of the Venezuelan blockade of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. 'That is disappointing', according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The trade boycott of Venezuela for Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao remains in place. That's what the Vice President, Tarek El Aissami, said on Tuesday.
American Vice President Mike Pence visits Israel, Jordan and Egypt from January 20 to January 23, reported the White House on Monday. The trip was originally scheduled for last month after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The new Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa feels nothing for a coalition government with the opposition. 'Currently there is no need for this,' he said after a meeting with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
In the book 'Fire and Fury' author Michael Wolff gives a glimpse into the final months of the campaign and in the first months the presidency of Donald Trump. A brief overview of the most important revelations.
US President Donald Trump has dissolved a committee investigating fraud during the 2016 presidential election. The reason for the decision is according to the White House because the US states refuse to share information.
George Weah is the new president of Liberia. The former football star has clearly defeated his rival Joseph Boakai in the decisive second round of the election campaign. The 51-year-old Weah received support from 61.5 percent of the more than two million voters in the West African country.
Former Zimbabwean army leader Constantino Chiwenga was appointed vice president of his country on Thursday. He played a leading role in the military intervention that ended in the departure of former President Robert Mugabe.
The government of South Sudan and rebel groups in the country have agreed a cease-fire. A treaty to that effect was signed Thursday by the warring parties in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
American Vice President Mike Pence makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. He speaks to the Afghan leaders in the capital Kabul.
Raul Castro must postpone his resignation for two months. The 86-year-old President of Cuba was due to leave on 24 February, but with the approval of the National Assembly this was postponed to 19 April. The reason is simple: the busy aftermath of Hurricane Irma has replaced the president's replacement.
The election of the successor of party leader Jacob Zuma of the ANC in South Africa is delaying. At the scheduled meeting in Johannesburg on Saturday, the party summit was confronted with three judgments by the courts, as a result of which unexpectedly more than 100 members of the ANC no longer have the right to vote.
US Vice President Mike Pence is planning a planned trip to the Middle East. The Republican remains for the security in the US, because he may be needed in the Senate. 'We probably do not need his voice. We are just not waiting for a scenario in which he is on the other side of the world and has to return ', said a senior government official.
The Vice President of Ecuador was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence on Wednesday. He was on trial for accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The White House calls it 'regrettable' that the Palestinians no longer want to sit around the table with Vice President Mike Pence. He would come to sit around the table with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he said it during the riot about the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In Sudan, 24 women were to be charged with wearing inappropriate clothing, which meant they risked lashes, but the charge has nevertheless been withdrawn.
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt refused a request from the American Vice President Mike Pence to come to the audience. Because of all the tumult around the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it seems better to the Coptic church not to receive Pence.
Mike Pence is not welcome in Palestine for the time being. That is what a high official from government party of President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday. The US Vice President would visit the country later this month.
Deputy Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras can not leave the prison, just as the separatist activists 'de Jordis' and the deposed Catalan 'minister' of the Interior Joaquim Forn.
The congress of the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has re-elected Jörg Meuthen (56) as party chairman on Saturday. He got 72 percent of the votes. There were no opposing candidates. Surprising was the choice for Alexander Gauland (76) as co-chairman. The moderate Berliner Georg Pazderski did not make it.
The new president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has replaced his Minister of Education on Saturday after protests on social media and on the radio had been fierce. The minister had been appointed by Mnangagwa only a day earlier.
Zimbabwe gets a new president for the first time in decades. Then Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to be sworn in as head of state after Robert Mugabe stepped on the plush after 37 years.
