Trump is back with supercharged battery as his sleazy financial and political past rock America
Whatever attributes Donald Trump may have, a reputation for keeping calm is not something he carries with him. This week, hours after he made a new entry in the book of firsts for an American president when he was charged with 34 felony counts, he returned to the arms of...
Stranded African migrants draw world attention to rising xenophobia in Tunisia after president’s incendiary speech
Six weeks after an incendiary speech by Tunisian President Kais Saied triggered a surge in racist violence against sub-Saharan migrants, hundreds of its victims are still camped on a cobblestone lane outside the headquarters of the UN’s migration agency, IOM, asking for emergency evacuation. “Our lives are under threat,” said...
Human rights activist and scion of the Kennedy family Robert F. Kennedy plots to succeed Biden
Human rights activists and a member of a prominent family in American politics Robert F Kennedy Jr is on course to seeking Democratic Party nomination to succeed President Joe Biden in 1924 elections. Kennedy, founder of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), on Wednesday moved a step closer to seeking the Democratic...
Hush money: Voter rating of ex-US President Trump soar as son admits he signed cheque for porn star
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in a Manhattan court – and looked “vulnerable”, a former ambassador has said. But a pollster says the case is “helping” him electorally, and it is now “almost inevitable” he will win the Republican nomination. Donald Trump...
UN report accuse Republican lawmakers of fuelling ‘tyranny’ of world growing hotter, emerging ‘climate divorce’
That so many states in the US have been passing legislation to curb climate change is anything but a fluke. Like other retrograde measures enacted in Republican-controlled states, those bills are based on “model legislation” drafted for legislators by an outfit called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). One of...
New UN report highlights how greenhouse gas emissions rose from 2010 and marred economies
scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued their first report in 1990. Only recently, they put out their sixth and latest assessment, a “final warning” on the state of the planet – and the news was anything but good. Yes, some progress had been made...
Republicans jittery about Trump’s felonies, as California court orders porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyers his $122,000
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case in New York City has set the next in-person hearing for December 4, roughly two months before the official start of the 2024 Republican presidential primary calendar. Trump was arraigned in Manhattan in front of Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday, where he...
Ex-US President Trump scoffs at 34 felony counts of tax evasion, skirt lifting and hush-money payments
Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 US election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first...
Risking democracy: Power-sharing may soon become Kenya’s default mode after every election
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and his coalition party, Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya called for mass protests across the country on March 20, marking the beginning of violent expression of disconcert with the government failure or inability to rein in high cost and galloping inflation. Odinga and his team have...
Trump indictment is a reminder of unparalleled criminality and conspiracy that surrounded the US presidential 2016 poll
The literally unprecedented indictment against Donald Trump marks an outright dangerous – and politically fraught – moment for the United States and serves as a reminder of the unparalleled level of criminality and conspiracy that surrounded the 2016 election. It’s easy to look back at the 2016 election as though...
