Senior Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi has been officially elected as the new speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday in a majority vote on the first day of the 116th Congress.
Apple’s stock has fallen sharply after it announced that it was correcting its projected revenue forecast for the October-December period on the back of slowing demand in China.
In a blow to the Pakistan government, international police co-operation agency – the Interpol has refused to extradite the country’s former high-ranking diplomat Husain Haqqani.
The UN has called on all sides in Bangladesh to "exercise restraint" and "ensure a peaceful post-electoral environment," where people can maintain their right to assembly and expression.
US President Donald Trump has tried to paint the situation with North Korea in a more positive light. In a brief tweet on Tuesday, Trump said he "look(s) forward to meeting with Chairman Kim" and "believes Kim Jong-un's commitment to not testing any new nuclear weapons."
US President Donald Trump is setting the tone for 2019 with his New Year message. While wishing his more than 56 million followers on Twitter “a Happy New Year”, Trump targeted ‘haters and fake news media.’
US Strategic Command tweeted a B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound bombs at a test range and was followed by the message, that said it was ready to "drop something much, much bigger" than New York's Times Square ball.
Brazil swore in its new president, leader of far-right political group, Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday. Bolsonaro won the general elections in October 2018, defeating Fernando Haddad of the centre-left Workers' Party by a comfortable margin in the second-round runoff.
Israel and the United States have formally exited the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the withdrawal going into effect after the final tick of the clock on December 31, 2018.
Here's a list of the countries scheduled to hold general elections in 2019 and some of the factors impacting them.
Let’s look at the women who are leading their respective countries as heads of government and heads of state as 2018 comes to a close.
US President Donald Trump has singularly raised the profile of Twitter as a social media platform for using it to announce policy decisions, fire people and lash out at critics and opposition members.
2018 saw some notable figures, those who had an impact on the world stage, die. From India to the U.S. these men and women had made a mark on their country, though not all good.
In 2018, the U.S. maintains its record with the most deaths due to gun-related violence in the world. This year continues with the tragic statistic of there being almost as many mass-shooting incidents as there have been days in 2018.
As 2018 comes to an end and with it the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency, here’s a look at the seven political decisions that sent shock-waves around the world.
This year of 2018 saw general elections that marked the growing trend of the retreat of democracy around the world, from Turkey to Brazil and from Russia to Pakistan.
Elon Musk's SpaceX programme has successfully launched a rocket carrying a military navigation satellite for the US Air Force on December 23.
The Indonesian government has extended tsunami warnings after the Anak Krakatau volcano erupted a second time on Sunday.
Japan's Emperor Akihito addressed the Japanese people on his 85th birthday before he abdicates from the country's Chrysanthemum throne in April 2019.
Even as the US’s defence administration is furiously working to set up contingency plans from two massive shocks – US President’s order of withdrawal of troops from Syria and the resignation of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, Trump for himself has already named an interim defence secretary.
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