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Trump stages corrosive attempt to undermine votes as his path to 270 evaporates

President Donald Trump staged a corrosive and potentially dangerous attempt at undermining the US election on Thursday, baselessly claiming the presidency was being stolen from underneath him as vote counts showed his path to victory disappearing. Standing at the White House podium, the President repeated false claims that a count of legally cast ballots would show him winning against former Vice President Joe Biden. He complained that in certain states […]

6 November 2020

International News

Iran’s Rouhani says US policies important, not who becomes president

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday the result of the US election was not important for the country’s clerical rulers, but that the next president in Washington should respect international treaties and laws, Reuters reports. “For Tehran, the next US administration’s policies are important and not who wins the US election,” Rouhani said in a televised cabinet meeting. Democratic challenger Joe Biden has promised to rejoin Iran’s 2015 nuclear […]

5 November 2020

International News

Linda Sarsour says Biden campaign’s ‘unprovoked’ attack hurts Democrats

There is a realistic chance that November's presidential election may be decided by who wins Michigan. In 2016, President Donald Trump won the Midwestern state by a mere 10,000 votes. Michigan also happens to be home to large Arab and Muslim communities - a constituency in the hundreds of thousands that could sway the election one way or another. On Thursday, prominent Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour told supporters that Joe […]

21 August 2020

US election

Trump stages corrosive attempt to undermine votes as his path to 270 evaporates

Iran’s Rouhani says US policies important, not who becomes president

Linda Sarsour says Biden campaign’s ‘unprovoked’ attack hurts Democrats

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