Former US President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine (UCI) Medical Center’s intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that later spread to his bloodstream (sepsis). In a statement on Twitter, Clinton’s spokesman Angel Ureña …
Dutch authorities said that according to court documents, a man apprehended in the Netherlands last July had threatened to kill caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Yavus O., as identified by authorities, reportedly utilized social messaging app Telegram to create a …
Former Austrian foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg was inaugurated as the country’s new chancellor on Monday, October 11, following ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s resignation due to corruption allegations. Schallenberg said that he is taking his job “with the utmost respect for the …
Czech President Milos Zeman has been taken into intensive care at a hospital in Prague on Oct. 10 after the parliamentary elections. Zeman’s spokesperson Jiří Ovčáček said on Twitter that the president agreed to be hospitalized at the Central Military …
Fumio Kishida has formally taken office on Oct. 4 as Japan’s new prime minister. Kishida has officially been confirmed as Japan’s 100th prime minister, succeeding Yoshihide Suga who resigned after just one year in office after losing public support due …
Several world leaders have denied wrongdoing after being included in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents from offshore companies. The Pandora Papers investigation involved some 600 journalists of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) from a variety …
Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been promoted as the State Affairs Commission (SAC), North Korea’s state-run news outlet KCNA reported on Thursday. Yo Jong was already a prominent political figure in …
The Japanese government announced on Tuesday that the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other prefectures is set to end on September 30 as it aims to reactivate the economy amid the slowing infection rate in the country. …
United States President Joe Biden received a COVID-19 booster shot on Sept. 27 afternoon at the White House on live television and encourage others to get vaccinated. The 78-year-old president is eligible for the Pfizer booster shot because he is …
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said that he has withdrawn the prime minister’s power to hire and file officials on Thursday, September 16. Mohamed’s statement enumerated ways in which Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble violated the constitution, such as being …