Tories’ lost hope: Britian’s Labour Party on a roll as Conservatives brace for resounding defeat
Facing predictions of the worst result in the party’s history, the Conservatives turned their focus to damage limitation, saying they needed to hang on to enough seats to provide an effective opposition to a Labour government.
Biden and Trump deadlocked in poll even after former’s poor performance in presidential debate
While nationwide surveys give important signals on American support for political candidates, just a handful of competitive states typically tilt the balance in the US Electoral College, which ultimately decides who wins a presidential election.
Kenya mourns a giant whose death coincides with a youth revolution with bearing on African politics
As Kamukunji MP, Maina Wanjigi helped small-scale and petty traders start the Gikomba Market and the Shauri Moyo craftspeople yards that have evolved into key subsectors of the national economy as they have been replicated in other major towns.
Pressure on President Biden to ditch re-election bid rises as wary Democrats worry they’ve given Trump victory
There are 25 Democratic members of the House of Representatives preparing to call for Biden to step aside if he seems shaky in coming days, according to one House Democratic aide. A second House Democratic aide said moderate House Democrats in competitive districts – often called “frontliners” – were getting hammered with questions in their districts this week.
Tax protests in Kenya switch from teargas, burning tyres and gunshots to president ‘Ruto Must Go’ calls
Outside the capital, hundreds of protesters marched through Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city, on the Indian Ocean coast. They carried palm fronds, blew on plastic horns and beat on drums, chanting “Ruto must go!”
Immigrants expected to sway results in favour of Labour Party, send Tories home in UK July 4 polls
Immigration is an electoral battleground in Britain, with Sunak promising to cut net migration levels if the Conservatives win, amid concern from many British voters that it was too high and put excessive pressure on the state-run National Health Service, housing and education.
Trigger-happy Kenya police resort to teargas to disperse protesting youth in capital Nairobi, major towns
Members of the protest movement, which has no official leaders and largely organises via social media, have rejected appeals from President William Ruto for dialogue, even after he abandoned proposed tax rises that triggered the demonstrations.
Youth revolution in Kenya and aborted putsch in Bolivia are grim pointers to perils of unnecessary foreign debts
Now, the crisis is reverberating in Kenya, Bolivia and other middle-income nations bearing the brunt of a surge in inflation and the rapid global interest rate rises that followed the pandemic. Borrowing costs soared and Russia’s war in Ukraine exacerbated a rise in prices of fuel and food.
Relief for Trump as US Supreme Court rules he has immunity for official, not private acts
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, delivered a sharply worded dissent, saying the ruling “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of government, that no man is above the law.”
Panic reigns in Democratic party as top guns rule out replacing Biden as calls rise for him to quit race
With Democratic leaders rallying around him, it will be up to President Joe Biden to decide whether he wants to end his re-election bid. But other Democrats held open the possibility of choosing a different presidential candidate.
