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Trump in denial over election defeat as Biden gears up to fight Covid

Even with President Donald Trump still refusing to concede the election, President-elect Joe Biden will launch an aggressive plan on Monday to control the pandemic that is escalating at an alarming rate and will define his administration as soon as he takes office. Biden's announcement of a coronavirus task force is an acknowledgement of record new infection numbers in recent days that mean that the Covid-19 crisis will be far […]

9 November 2020

International News

Democrats urge Egypt’s Sisi to free dissidents before jail terms ‘become death sentences’

More than 50 US Democratic lawmakers have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release human rights activists, lawyers, journalists and other prisoners of conscience "before their unjust imprisonments become death sentences in the face of massive Covid outbreaks". In a letter sent on Monday, the 55 politicians, led by Representatives Ro Khanna, Jim McGovern and Senator Sherrod Brown, called on Sisi to release those "unjustly detained for exercising their […]

20 October 2020

International News

US House Democrats pass what could be first ‘Muslim civil rights bill’

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that would repeal the Trump administration’s controversial ‘anti-Muslim’ travel ban, in what has been called the first Muslim civil rights bill in US history. The bill would outright prohibit any future president from using religious discrimination as grounds for restricting immigration. Dubbed the NO BAN Act – short for National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants – it was introduced in April 2019 […]

25 July 2020

International News

Trump acquitted of all charges in Senate impeachment trial

The United States Senate cleared Donald Trump of both charges in its impeachment trial of the president, bringing to an end the impeachment saga that has consumed Washington since the House of Representatives launched its inquiry into the Trump's actions last September. In a 52-48 vote, the Senate found Trump not guilty of abusing his power of office. The Senate voted 53-47 to acquit the president on the charge of […]

6 February 2020

Democrats

Trump in denial over election defeat as Biden gears up to fight Covid

Democrats urge Egypt’s Sisi to free dissidents before jail terms ‘become death sentences’

US House Democrats pass what could be first ‘Muslim civil rights bill’

Trump acquitted of all charges in Senate impeachment trial

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