Ethical questions raised about why leading US news outlets spiked leaked insider information from Trump campaign
The three newspapers’ decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives and mainstream news organisations covered them avidly.
Domino effect: Arrest and release of Tanzania opposition leaders linked to youth protests in Kenya
“We won’t provide a chance to a few criminals to destroy peace by copying what is happening in neighbouring countries,” police commissioner Awadh Haji said late on Monday, a likely reference to weeks of youth-led protests in Kenya this year which inspired demonstrations in Nigeria and Uganda.
Harris seems to ‘walk on eggs’ as she rolls out policy aimed at outmanoeuvring Trump, addressing 2020 liabilities
While Donald Trump in recent weeks has resorted to personal and racially tinged attacks on his new rival, his campaign has been working to put Harris’ policy aims front and centre, aiming to paint Kamala Harris as a radical liberal, pointing to old videos of her discussing policy positions during the 2020 Democratic primary.
With White population now 58 cent down from 80 per cent explains why Trump’s racist card appeals to white voters gripped by demographic hysteria
While the Census Bureau says there are still 195 million white people in America and that they are still the majority, the white population actually declined slightly in 2023, and experts believe that they will become a minority sometime between 2040 and 2050.
Democracy in Hong Kong dealt blow as top court upholds convictions of seven over 2019 protests
The defendants previously argued that the trial judge had failed to conduct an “operational proportionality” assessment when convicting them and quoted two non-binding decisions set out by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The defence also suggested the judge should have taken into account that the procession did not become violent.
Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York said in an email that “the Iranian government neither possesses nor harbours any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.”
Mass Deportation Now: Trump’s plan to expel Africans, Asians and Hispanics from US worries Republicans
But Trump and his advisers have other plans. He is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign to retake the White House and pushing the Republican Party towards a bellicose strategy that hearkens back to the 1950s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a deportation policy known by a racial slur – “Operation Wetback.”
Martial court in Congo sentences to death leaders of rebel coalition unveiled in Kenya last year
The AFC is a political-military movement launched by Nangaa in December with the aim of uniting armed groups, political parties and civil society against Congo’s government. One of its most renown members is the M23, an armed group accused of mass killings in eastern Congo’s decadeslong conflict.
South Sudan teetering on the brink of collapse as oil revenues dwindle and police, army not paid in months
South Sudan’s economy largely depends on the oil it exports via neighbouring Sudan. But war in Sudan has created widespread chaos, and the pipeline in an area of fighting ruptured in February. The drop in oil revenues has compounded South Sudan’s long problem of official mismanagement.
Trump sharpens attacks on Kamala as only a ‘woman who represents certain groups of people’
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump repeatedly insulted Vice President Kamala Harris, attacking her intelligence and insisting he has not “recalibrated” his campaign despite facing a new opponent.
