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Eight candidates are in the running to regain the leadership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the departure of Director-General Roberto Azevedo. World trade is at a standstill because of COVID-19. The prospect of a "no-deal" and a trade war between the United...
Dozens of people were arrested on Sunday by Belarusian police trying to break up an opposition demonstration against the controversial re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. The demonstrators are contesting the victory of Alexander Lukashenko, 66 years old, 26 of whom...
He has been on the job since the end of 2012 and has been fighting ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease, for several years. Political thunderstorm in Japan. Aged 65, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign on Friday, August 28, for...
The Abidjan court of first instance on Tuesday ruled the removal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo from the electoral list. This decision has serious consequences, as it definitively eliminates Laurent Gbagbo from the list of citizens likely to run for the presidential election...
Indonesia, as President of the Security Council, justifies this rejection by the lack of consensus among the fifteen members of the body. But the United States does not admit defeat. On Tuesday, August 25, the United States was once...
Dislodged from power in 1997 at the end of a civil war led by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the former head of state died in Perpignan at the age of 88. Former Congolese President Pascal Lissouba died Monday, August 24 in...
Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, one of the main opponents of President Vladimir Putin, is in hospital "in intensive care", his spokesman said on Twitter on Thursday 20 August. "We assume that Alexei was poisoned," she wrote, saying Navalny first "felt bad" on a plane and has...
The United States warned this afternoon that it was opposed to "any extra-constitutional change of government. Soldiers fired shots in the air on Tuesday, August 18, for an unknown reason, in the large military camp in the garrison town of Kati, from where...
Aged 72, the younger brother of the American president passed away Saturday in New York. He paid him the last visit. Donald Trump did not hide his concern on Friday when he went to the bedside of his brother Robert, hospitalized in New...
The United States, which is pushing to isolate Iran, denounced an "inexcusable" vote. For its part, Tehran welcomed the vote, saying Washington has "never been so isolated." Washington was not deluding itself but hoped to appear less alone in its strategy to fight Iranian...