Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot after a government meeting in Handlova, Slovakia’s state news agency TASR reported Wednesday, quoting deputy speaker of the Slovak Parliament Ľuboš Blaha. Several shots were fired, according to TASR. Fico’s condition was not immediately known. The town of Handlova where the shooting happened is about two hours’ drive from the capital Bratislava. The government was there for an off-site meeting. Fico, a pro-Russian politician who won a third term as...
Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Monday that he and two other Trump administration foreign policy officials have met with top Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, during a three-day visit to Israel. O’Brien confirmed the visit, first reported by Reuters, in an interview with NBC News. O'Brien said that he was accompanied by John Rakolta, who was that U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, and Ed McMullen,...
The Slovakian prime minister is no longer in a life-threatening condition and 'will survive' after he was shot five times in a 'politically motivated' assassination attempt, his deputy has said.
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Robert Fico, 59, was targeted by a gunman as he greeted supporters in Handlova, north-east of the capital Bratislava, following a Slovak government meeting.
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is out of danger following an attempt on his life on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kaliňák and the deputy head of the hospital where Fico is being treated told the news agency TASR on Sunday. "Based on the adviser to the medical consultation this morning, we can state that the patient is currently not in a life-threatening condition," the deputy head of the university hospital in Banská Bystrica, Milan Urbáni, told journalists. "However, his...
Hong Kong’s tourism minister has slammed a political commentator’s “fallacious” assertion that the city’s tourism policy had driven out high-value establishments and yielded weak economic returns. Citing tourism figures, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said more than 760,000 tourists from mainland China crossed the border in Hong Kong over the Labour Day […]
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Robert Fico has previously entrusted the leadership of the government to his deputy prime ministers.
Thousands of people thronged the streets of Edinburgh 30 years ago this week for the funeral of Labour leader John Smith, who had died eight days earlier from a heart attack at the age of 55. His death came as a stunning blow not only to his family and friends and to his party, but to many ordinary people. He was succeeded by Tony Blair, who went on to win a landslide victory for Labour at the 1997 general election three years later. But few doubt that, had John Smith lived, he too would...