‘It is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down,’ the US president writes. The following is the letter from United States President Joe Biden, announcing he will no longer run for re-election in November: “My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have […]
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Trump shot, then nominated. Biden gets COVID-19 and more calls to quit. Days after being shot, Donald Trump has become the Republican presidential nominee. His rival, President Joe Biden, is isolating with COVID-19. More senior Democrats in the United States are urging him to quit the race. How critical a week has this been for
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Trump nominated by Republicans two days after assassination attempt. Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential nomination and picked Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, days after surviving an assassination attempt. With Trump and his Republican Party dominating the news cycle in the United States, there has been less focus on President Joe
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Hung parliament as leftists and centrists combine to beat the far right. An inconclusive election has wrapped up in France. But there’s one certainty: that the far right won’t lead the next government. A leftist bloc came out on top, ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists, with the far-right National Rally (RN) beaten into third
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Biden struggles to deal with a political and media pile-on over his age. After a disastrous debate, President Joe Biden etched questions about his cognitive capabilities into the public consciousness. Liberal media outlets and commentators, who long downplayed warning signs about Biden’s ageing, have changed their tune. Many are now calling on him to step
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Polls suggest PM Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives could face heavy defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. The United Kingdom is set to vote in a general election on July 4. The vote was called by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative Party has been in power for 14 years. Polls suggest his rival, Labour leader Keir
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Macron was answering a question on whether he would be ready to resign if the National Rally wins the parliamentary election and urges him to leave. It also intersected with swirling rumors which began circulating on Tuesday that he was considering resigning, triggering a denial from the Elysée. Instead, Macron said that he would take
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The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi missing a chunk of voter support and at the helm of a tricky coalition. Will this new configuration loosen the screws on Indian media and give them space to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy that dominated the airwaves so
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India’s Narendra Modi will have to form a coaltion government with other parties in order to secure a majority in parliament. Narendra Modi is expected to serve another term as prime minister of India, but with a significantly reduced majority. He will have to partner up with other parties to form the next government. His
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For the past decade, India has been synonymous internationally with its prime minister, Narendra Modi. But on Tuesday, as final election results poured in, the electorate appeared to show dissatisfaction with the status quo and placed the serial winner onto shaky ground. Although Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is still on course to win
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