Normally restrained Joe Biden sheds ‘gentle’ tag, adopts more offensive line against Trump
Democrats plan to answer the widespread questions about the 81-year-old president’s age and readiness by affirming that Biden is capable of being commander-in-chief and trying to discredit people who portray him as enfeebled. Key to that strategy is drawing a core contrast with former President Donald Trump, the heavy Republican front-runner who is himself 77
Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s supporters win big as US, UK and EU urge probe into poll fraud
Imran Khan is in jail and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has been barred from the polls. Independents, most of them backed by Khan, had won the most seats – 98 of the 245 counted by 1830 GMT – while Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party had won 69 seats.
Gi-Go: How Museveni family choked quality and promoted ‘castesm’ in education system in Uganda
One thing must be emphasised. It is under the sovereign jurisdiction of the First Family in the education system that massification, privatisation, commercialization, marketisation and stratification of education has occurred. In this article, I have actually been concerned with esterification of education as a function of the First Family’s choices in education and their consequences on Ugandan society in the short, medium and long-term.
Preliminary Pakistan election outcome favours jailed former PM Imran Khan supporters
Imran Khan is in jail and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was barred from the election, so his supporters contested as independents. Analysts have predicted there may be no clear winner, adding to the woes of a country struggling to recover from an economic crisis while it grapples with rising militant violence in a deeply polarised political environment.
Biden versus Trump: How investigations of two classified documents came to different endings
Former President Donald Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, slammed the decision not to charge Biden, saying: “THIS IS A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE!” Biden, late on Thursday, angrily lashed out at Hur for unflattering characterisations of his memory in the report and said he never shared classified information.
Classified papers probe clears President Biden of wrongdoing, but turns his memory and age into election issues
Biden’s lawyers said his memory lapses were not unusual for someone trying to describe events that took place years ago. “Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report,” they wrote in comments included in Hur’s report.
South African President Ramaphosa defends ANC’s 30 years in power in speech to Parliament
South Africa’s struggling economy has also been seriously hampered by an electricity crisis, with rolling blackouts across the country proving disastrous for businesses.
Glimmer of hope for Republicans as Trump ballot disqualification gets sceptical US Supreme Court reception
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts told Jason Murray, representing four Republican voters and two unaffiliated voters who sued to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot, that if the Colorado decision is upheld, other states will proceed with disqualification proceedings of their own for either Democratic or Republican candidates.
White House: No redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling by Biden
The yearlong investigation centered on the improper retention of classified documents by Biden from his time as a senator and as vice president. Sensitive records were found in 2022 and 2023 at his Delaware home and at a private office that he used in between his service in the Obama administration and becoming president.
South African opposition party boycott president’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament
The leftist EFF party was formed in 2013 and won just over 10 per cent of the national vote in the last general election in 2019, but it was the only one of the three largest parties to increase its share of the vote.
