Post-election fighting engulfs Mozambique as government threatens to deploy military to quell violence
Police cleared barricades in several Maputo neighbourhoods on Wednesday ahead of a major protest called by the runner-up in the election Venancio Mondlane, who received 20 per cent of the national vote. Mondlane has alleged widespread rigging of the elections in favour of Frelimo.
Elon Musk antics during US presidential election may have ushered in new era of misformation
While X under Elon Musk has presented a whole host of new issues for advocates and civil society, less attention has been paid to other, established platforms having many of the same problems they’ve had for years. Reporting found that nearly four years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, militia groups are still organizing on Facebook, with the platform even autogenerating pages for interested users.
Democratic staffers: Harris campaign had hoped economic recovery would be a winning issue, instead it became her achilles heel
Kamala Harris sought to reassure voters about the cost of living. Trump’s proposals to raise tariffs would amount to “a 20 per cent national sales tax” on imported goods, she said. She vowed to “protect hard-working Americans who aren’t always seen or heard.” In the end, not enough of those Americans believed her.
Harris’ failure to halt Trump’s return to White House bears testimony to democracy and politics as strange bedfellows
Following Biden’s dramatic withdrawal just months before Election Day, Harris threw her campaign together as if it were an airplane being built while in flight, her advisers told reporters. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and US senator pressed a case that Trump was a threat to democracy and women’s rights, while promoting a populist economic platform and reproductive freedoms.
Dark rhetoric earns Donald Trump comeback victory to White House, defeating Harris
Donald Trump prevailed despite persistently low approval ratings. Impeached twice, he has been criminally indicted four times and found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation. In May, Trump was convicted by a New York jury of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star.
FBI: Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in battleground states
A senior official in Raffensperger’s office, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said the Georgia bomb hoaxes were sent from email addresses that had been used by Russians trying to interfere in previous US elections.
Longstanding differences in Israeli government become public as PM Netanyahu sacks defence minister
For months there had been open disagreements between Netanyahu and Gallant reflecting a wider split between Israel’s right-wing governing coalition and the military, which has long favoured reaching a deal to end the fighting and bring home scores of hostages held by Hamas.
Embarrassed Nigerian president orders release of 29 minors facing death sentence over protests
The children’s arrest “highlights significant flaws in our criminal justice system, particularly the child justice system, indicating systemic issues that fail to protect minors’ rights,” said Funke Adeoye, founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa, a nonprofit that has been fighting for their release.
American on trial as election deniers test its limits as standard bearer of democracy
Susan Profitt, another election denial activist who knows Robinson, says she was acting as an observer in a tabulation centre last week when an election official warned her she would be expelled from the building and even threatened to file felony charges against her for harassing election officials.
Presidential candidates’ final push before Election Day brings them to same patch of Pennsylvania
About 77 million Americans have voted early. A victory by either side would be unprecedented.
