By Eric Cheung, Simone McCarthy and Jessie Yeung, CNN Taipei (CNN) — Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s president Monday, marking the start of a historic third consecutive term for the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has championed democracy in the face of years of growing threats from authoritarian China. Lai, 64, a
Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s president Monday, marking the start of a historic third consecutive term for the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has championed democracy in the face of years of growing threats from authoritarian China. Lai, 64, a former doctor and vice president, was inaugurated alongside new Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, who recently served as Taiwan’s top envoy to the United States. Both leaders and their party are openly loathed by Beijing for...
By Eric Cheung, Simone McCarthy and Jessie Yeung, CNN Taipei (CNN) — Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s president Monday, marking the start of a historic third consecutive term for the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has championed democracy in the face of years of growing threats from authoritarian China. Lai, 64, a
Senior Conservatives are drawing up a secret plan to parachute Andy Street into the House of Commons by giving him a plum safe seat.
By Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Correspondent, Washington, Dc Published: 17:30 BST, 7 May 2024 | Updated: 17:54 BST, 7 May 2024 A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Donald Trump's trial date in his classified documents case will be postponed, citing ongoing issues in the case.Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the trial would be postponed indefinitely to resolve...
The question is whether the parties can agree on the design of certain systems, such as how to treat the children of female family members if they retain their Imperial status after marriage.
Here they go again. Six months before election day, for the third straight presidential contest, Donald Trump and his Republican lickspittles are sounding alarms about virtually nonexistent voting fraud, laying the groundwork to claim that he wuz robbed should he lose to President Biden. Trump has refused in recent interviews to commit to accepting the results in November; since the sore loser still doesn’t concede his 2020 defeat, his antidemocratic perfidy about 2024 doesn’t surprise. Neither...
The National Assembly is expected to rubber stamp party decisions at a meeting this week.
The Communist Party’s Politburo lost a third of members in anti-corruption campaign.
Socialist party PSC looks like the clear winner in Sunday’s vote, although it will fall some way short of achieving a majoritySeparatist parties are in danger of losing their decade-long hold of power in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region, with the pro-union Socialist party poised to win the most votes in Sunday’s election, according to a near-complete count of the ballots.The four pro-independence parties, led by the Together party of former regional president Carles Puigdemont, were set to...
Steve Howell Labour leader Keir Starmer is favored to win the UK’s general election later this year, but—as with Joe Biden—there is one word that could derail his campaign: Gaza.
Sian Berry will stand as the Green Party's candidate for Brighton Pavilion in the General Election, replacing Caroline Lucas.