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...The backing is seen as a big win for the former South Carolina governor. Artificial intelligence: Benjamin Parkin investigates how deepfakes are disrupting Bangladesh’s election....
...His comments hark back to July when his Conservative party won a surprise victory in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, helped by controversy over the Labour mayor Sadiq Khan’s extension of a charge...
...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...The former US president is expected to make his first public appearance on the 2024 election campaign trail on Saturday, when he will name his South Carolina leadership team....
...Trump et al v....
...South Carolina’s Republican governor has been sued over his mandate to “immediately expedite” a return to in-person work for state employees....
...Joe Biden will be looking for a first-place finish in South Carolina on Saturday to prove to voters and his donors that he is still in this race....
...Trump’s re-election chances were looking 50:50 or better. The previous Saturday, Joe Biden had won the South Carolina primary. But the Democratic contest still seemed to have miles to go....
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...Given the death of truth, a South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission wouldn’t work in the US....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...Taal Volcano, located 100km south of the capital Manila, first erupted on Sunday, sending a column of ash and steam up to 15km into the atmosphere....
...Trevor Williams: Levelling down for sure. London and the South-East will recover the fastest: the other regions/nations slower, especially in the short term....
...There’s also the pending Williams Review of the UK rail industry....
...Our interactive election tracker projects each party’s prospects as well as a country-by-country guide to each EU member state....
...Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican senator, expressed “great sadness” about Mr Mattis, and described him as a “role model for the concept of duty, honour, country”....
...Among them are Cleveland’s Loretta Mester and John Williams of San Francisco, giving the committee a hawkish hue....
...No wrongdoing was proved against Saïd, who said he had received no commissions for assisting in the deal....
...The government has included a sunset clause in 2020, to allow a sweeping review of the measures two years before presidential elections....
...He beat Hillary Clinton in battleground states such as Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, as what appears to be a coalition of disaffected blue-collar white and working-class voters acted on their anger at...
...The ICC attempted to try Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy, William Ruto, for their alleged involvement in violence surrounding the 2007 election. The case fell apart this year....
...Under pressure from the offensive, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram’s leader, pledged allegiance earlier this month to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed “caliph” and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq...
...Al Cardenas, one of the most influential men in Republican circles in Florida, was attending a political event in January at a luxury hotel in South Beach, Miami when he found himself in a bind....
...If parliament fails to elect a new head of state, a general election would be held in early February....
...There are few sympathetic characters in this study of the new South Africa....
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