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Biden pledges to roll back Trump’s Muslim travel ban on ‘day one

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has pledged to end President Donald Trump’s highly controversial travel ban affecting mainly Muslim-majority countries on day one of his presidency during an online summit yesterday. The Muslim community was the first to feel Trump’s “assault” with his “vile Muslim ban”, said Biden during his address at Emgage Action, the largest Muslim American PAC (political action committee). In a speech that blamed the […]

22 July 2020

International News

How Egypt presidential election is rendered irrelevant

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed any remaining doubt last week, as he formally announced his intention to seek a second term in Egypt's upcoming presidential elections. The Egyptian army chief-turned-president's announcement surprised few experts, who say Sisi is almost guaranteed to be re-elected, after he made it nearly impossible for any real political opponent to challenge his firm grip on power. "I think the word 'election' is probably too generous," said […]

24 January 2018

International News

Iranians determine future of reforms in presidential election

Iranians vote on Friday in a bitter presidential contest between pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani and hardline challenger Ebrahim Raisi that could determine the pace of economic and social reform and Iran’s re-engagement with the world. In a warning reflecting rising political tensions amid signs of an unexpectedly close race, Rouhani urged Iran’s powerful elite Revolutionary Guards, believed to support Raisi, not to meddle in the election. Suspicions that the Guards […]

19 May 2017

International News

Rouhani warns Revolutionary Guards not to meddle in Iran election

President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday urged Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and the Basij militia under its control not to meddle in Friday’s presidential election, in a rare warning that underscored rising political tensions. The Guards, who oversee an economic empire worth billions of dollars, are seldom criticised in public, but the pragmatist Rouhani is locked in an unexpectedly tight race against hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who is believed to have […]

18 May 2017

International News

Congo’s top court approves postponement of elections

The Constitutional Court in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday it had approved a petition by the electoral commission to delay a presidential election set for November, allowing President Joseph Kabila to remain in office until April 2018. Kabila was due to step down in December when his two-term mandate expires and his opponents say they fear he intends to first prolong his term in office and then change […]

18 October 2016

presidential election

Biden pledges to roll back Trump’s Muslim travel ban on ‘day one

How Egypt presidential election is rendered irrelevant

Iranians determine future of reforms in presidential election

Rouhani warns Revolutionary Guards not to meddle in Iran election

Congo’s top court approves postponement of elections

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