People
July-25-2024
- Germany's Scholz willing to run for 2nd term
- ?German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday expressed his willingness to run for a second term in the 2025 national elections.
July-24-2024
- US secret service director resigns
- U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday after widespread outrage over the agency's failure to prevent the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.
July-23-2024
- Pelosi endorses Harris as Democratic presidential nominee
- Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party, on Monday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party's presidential nominee, consolidating support for Harris following incumbent President Joe Biden's exit from the race.
July-19-2024
- General Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong dies -- state media
- ?Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, passed away at the age of 80, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday.
July-19-2024
- Yael Braun-Pivet re-elected Speaker of French National Assembly
- Centrist Yael Braun-Pivet was re-elected as Speaker of the French National Assembly on Thursday evening, securing a relative majority of 220 votes in the third round of voting.
July-15-2024
- Trump urges Americans to stand united after surviving rally shooting
- Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on early Sunday urged Americans to stand united and not allow "evil to win," just hours after surviving a suspected assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
June-26-2024
- Von der Leyen to secure 2nd term as EU leaders reach deal
- ?Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is poised for a second term as president of the European Commission after European political leaders reached a consensus on Tuesday, according to reports from multiple media outlets.
July-7-2024
- Nanjing Massacre memorized by Rabe's tombstone in Berlin
- A team from China's Nanjing University held a memorial event by John Rabe's tombstone in Berlin on Saturday to remember the German's heroic action of protecting hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Nanjing during World War II.
June-25-2024
- WikiLeaks founder Assange will plead guilty
- ?WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to media reports citing court papers filed Monday.
June-19-2024
- Trump will scale back on Ukraine aid if elected
- Former US president Donald Trump said at a campaign event that he would scale back aid to Ukraine if he is elected.
