US officials who have engaged in “nasty behaviour” over Chinese-claimed Taiwan will face sanctions, China’s Foreign Ministry said, after Washington lifted curbs on exchanges between US and Taiwanese officials. Sino-US
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are inaugurated. Aides to the California Democrat confirmed the timing and
With the 2023 presidential election exactly 761 days away from Sunday, politicians across the two major political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party has elected Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany’s most populous state, as its new leader — sending a signal of continuity months before an
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has resigned, citing last week’s attack on the Capitol, CNN reported on Friday.
Germany’s Christian Democrats will elect a new chairman on Saturday, aiming to unite their conservative party behind a new leader who they hope can succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor when
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on
The Dutch government has stepped down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay money back. Families suffered an “unparalleled wrong”, MPs decided,
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says she remains hopeful that she will be announced as the next Director General of the World Trade Organisation after Joe Biden becomes the next president of
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in presidential elections, rejecting as a “joke” early results that gave incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead. The electoral commission
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a significant early lead in the presidential race, according to preliminary results released by the electoral commission on Friday morning. Mr Museveni has garnered
US President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped economy before he takes office next week. If passed by Congress, it would include $1tn for
The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at last week’s Capitol riot. [bc_video video_id=”6222641194001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”autoplay” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”pictureinpicture” max_width=”640px”
Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has ascribed the conversations in the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) about which zone in the country will produce the next president in 2023
Walmart Inc, the world’s biggest retailer and Walt Disney Co joined other major companies in indefinitely suspending donations to U.S. lawmakers who voted against President-elect Joe Biden’s election certification. The
US President Donald Trump has dismissed as “ridiculous” efforts by Democrats in Congress to impeach him for inciting insurrection at last week’s deadly riots on Capitol Hill.He said the impeachment
President Donald Trump’s acting head of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly resigned Monday, leaving the post ahead of schedule as the nation faces a heightened terrorism threat from extremists
Germany and France attacked Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. after US President Donald Trump was shut off from the social media platforms, in an extension of Europe’s battle with big
President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency isolated and shunned by former allies and members of his own party as he faces a second impeachment and growing
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has called on Nigerians to take responsibility for their survival and of rectifying the huge gaps in the President Buhari administration, which has shown “outrageous nepotistic
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