News of prime minister

Canada's next PM Mark Carney vows to 'win' US trade war

10-03-2025 12:52 Liberal Party elects former investment banker Mark Carney to succeed Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his combative anti-Trump rhetoric.

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Milei to visit Spain, make second trip to Israel

04-03-2025 14:49 President Javier Milei will travel to Tel Aviv on March 23, according to the government; La Libertad Avanza leader hopes to meet PM Netanyahu and ink memorandum on security and defence collaboration.

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DIPLOMATIC ROW

Spain slams Milei's claim that PM Sánchez is delivering 'poverty and death'

04-05-2024 10:51 Leaders of Argentina and Spain caught in war of words; Government in Madrid rejects claims from President Milei's office that PM Sánchez is delivering "poverty and death" – a response to slurs of drug use.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Milei closes off tour with Italian president, PM encounters

12-02-2024 15:18 President Javier Milei meets with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, eyeing “new stage” in bilateral ties.

Middle East

Israeli PM announces wartime 'emergency government' with Gantz

11-10-2023 12:24 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu establishes "emergency government" with politician and retired Army general Benny Gantz for the duration of the war.

Guyana & Slavery

Family of former British PM apologises for Guyana slave-owning past

27-08-2023 08:45 Descendants of former British prime minister William Gladstone apologise for family's slaveholding past in Guyana and urges United Kingdom to discuss reparations in the Caribbean.