Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected Thursday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is a key
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A leading Argentine meteorologist has been elected as the first female head of the United Nations weather agency. The
Latvian lawmakers on Wednesday picked the country’s long-serving and popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight vote. The 100-seat Saeima legislature elected Edgars Rinkēvičs, the country’s top diplomat since 2011, as president
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been elected to the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO). The North Korean Ministry of Public Health’s Dr. Jong Min Pak has been seated on the WHO’s executive board with a term set
Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba. Now 29 years old, González is set to become a
Nepal’s newly elected president — the third since the Himalayan nation abolished its centuries-old monarchy in 2008 and became a republic — took the oath of office Monday in Kathmandu. Ram Chandra Poudel was elected Thursday by members of the Federal Parliament
Chinese President Xi Jinping won an official third five-year term as president Friday, following a vote by the country’s mostly ceremonial legislature. The National People’s Congress voted 2,952 to 0 to re-elect Xi, who is 69, putting him on track to stay
GOP politician Kevin McCarthy has finally secured enough votes to be elected Speaker of the House. Out of the 428 votes cast, McCarthy received 216 and the Democrats’ Hakeem Jeffries got 212. On the fourth day of the impasse, he received 216