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A Democratic ray of hope

BY WITHDRAWING his candidacy from the presidential election, president Biden has played a ‘president’s gambit,’ and he played it with extreme precision. He opened the platform for vice president Kamala Harris to step in and challenge the Republican candidate, Donald Trump...

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Joy demands election within 90 days

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, demanded the interim government to hold parliament election within 90 days since the parliament was dissolved...

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Biden, Harris warn of Trump threat to democracy

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he is ‘not confident’ Donald Trump would concede peacefully if he loses 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...

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BNP, other parties congratulate interim govt

Leaders of political parties on Thursday appreciated the oath taking of the interim government at Bangabhaban headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, hoping that the government would be able to form a democratic government holding a free, fair and credible general election...

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Nobel laureate Yunus to lead interim govt in Bangladesh

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was named as the chief of the interim government on Tuesday night, few hours after the president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, dissolved the 12th parliament formed through the controversial January 7 general election...

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JS dissolved, Yunus agrees to lead interim govt

A day after Sheikh Hasina’s fall, president Mohammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday dissolved the 12th parliament formed through the controversial general election held on...

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Jimmy Carter sets sights on voting for Harris

Former US president Jimmy Carter turns 100 in two months, but with the US election falling just after his birthday, he has told family he has a secondary motivation for becoming a centenarian: voting for Kamala Harris...

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Venezuela urged to release full election results

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US counterpart Joe Biden called on Tuesday for full results of the Venezuelan election to be published, with the Brazilian leader terming a dispute over results ‘normal.’...

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Trump offers tech sector policy flips ahead of election

Fiercely against social media platform TikTok, cryptocurrency bitcoin and electric cars during his presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has recently flip-flopped on several issues that are dear to Silicon Valley...

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Common Lanka candidate excites popular imagination

THE question mark that hangs over the presidential election due in October this year is not going away. The answer to it keeps getting put off. The latest is the government’s proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate ambiguity in the term of the president from six to five years. The Supreme Court has thrice...

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Rwanda’s Kagame wins fourth term

Rwandan President Paul Kagame was gearing up for a fourth term in office on Tuesday after winning a 99.15 per cent of the vote in an election where only two challengers were allowed to run against him....

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Trump formally named Republican candidate, picks Vance for VP

Donald Trump won formal nomination Monday as the Republican presidential candidate for the upcoming US elections and picked a right-wing loyalist JD Vance for running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of last weekend's failed assassination attempt.

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French PM gets party backing for re-election

France’s prime minister on Saturday was elected leader of his party’s National Assembly lawmakers as politicians from all sides jockeyed for position to form the next government...

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Elon Musk donates to Trump campaign

Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape, reports Bloomberg....

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Syria to hold parliamentary election Monday

Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party’s grip on power....