TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia accepted the files of three candidates late Saturday for the Oct. 6 presidential election. Chairman of the Authority, Farouk Bouasker, said at a news conference in Tunis that “the authority received, until the deadline for submitting candidacies on Aug. 5...
Phoenix, United States – AFP Kamala Harris took her rapid tour of battleground states to Arizona on Friday, where she hammered opponent Donald Trump on his favorite issue of immigration, as the Republican used his only rally of the week to boost a Senate candidate. With the presidential election day just three months away, Trump’s ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn into office Thursday as Bangladesh’s interim leader, vowing to guide the country back to democracy after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, who only returned home hours earlier, swore to “uphold, support and protect t...
Palm Beach, United States – AFP Donald Trump proposed three September debates against Kamala Harris Thursday as he sought to wrest back some of the attention lavished on his rival since her blockbuster entry into the US presidential election. Harris has ignited the Democratic ticket in the last 18 days, pulling in record fundraising and ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 84, could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief […]
Detroit, United States – AFP President Joe Biden said Wednesday he is “not confident” Donald Trump would concede peacefully if he lost the US election, as the Republican’s rival Kamala Harris warned a Trump victory would usher in a lawless administration set on curtailing Americans’ freedoms. Trump has been impeac...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday overturned a conviction against Mohammed Yunus. “Professor Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of labour charges,” one of his lawyers, Khaja Tanvir Ahmed, told AFP. “The court earlier this year sentenced them to six months in prison.R...
Philadelphia – AFP US Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Tim Walz is “one of the most far-left radicals in the entire United States government at any level.” “Kamala Harris listened to the Hamas wing of the party,” Vance added during a press conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “This is ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly elected running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held their first rally in the battleground state of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening. The event, which marked Harris’s first public appearance since the Democratic Party confirmed her as its official presidential candidat...
Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election, has praised Walz for his commitment to working families. The Trump campaign has called Walz a “dangerously liberal extremist.” Analysts say Walz’s progressive policies, such as providing free ...
