Tag: Nancy Pelosi
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Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s Husband, Attacked
Paul Pelosi, the husband of US House Speaker of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s San Francisco home. The intruder shouted “Where is Nancy?” and said he was going to wait for the speaker to return home, according to a source briefed on the attack. Pelosi, 82, underwent surgery for…
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Pelosi vows support to denuclearise N.Korea, plans to visit Korea border
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart vowed on Thursday to support deterrence against North Korea and achieve its denuclearisation. “Both sides expressed concerns about the dire situation of North Korea’s growing threat,” Pelosi and South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo said in a joint statement after meeting in…
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China slams Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit as ‘extremely dangerous’
China has condemned the visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as “extremely dangerous”, warning that the trip was a threat to stability in the region. Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late on Tuesday on a trip she said demonstrated the United States’s solidarity with the self-governed island, which China claims as its own. Washington…
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US House votes to ban assault weapons as Republicans criticize ‘gun grab’
The House has passed legislation to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide. Once banned in the US, the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed as the weapon of…