Ivanka Trump has had 16 trademarks approved Ivanka Trump’s defunct company has been granted 16 trademarks by the Chinese government – including one for “voting machines”. Donald Trump’s daughter filed the trademark applications while her firm, Ivanka Trump Marks LLC, still existed – but they were only granted in the last two months. The new […] Read more
Wednesday briefing: US midterm results put brake on Trump Democrats win House but ‘blue wave’ absent … stabbings prompt call to stagger school finish times … and the ballerina breaking boundaries Hello, it’s Warren Murray ensuring you are fully informed this morning. Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives after the US midterm elections, with […] Read more
After vigorously campaigning for Republicans in the midterms with hardline anti-immigration rhetoric widely seen as racist or extremist, President Donald Trump struck a strangely regretful tone in an interview on the eve of Election Day. Trump has deployed 5,000 troops, some of whom appeared in combat gear, to the US-Mexico border while appearing to muse […] Read more
Donald Trump and Barack Obama have given rousing speeches as the US enters the last day of campaigning before Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Speaking at a rally in Macon, Georgia, the president ramped up his hard-line rhetoric on immigration as he issued warnings about the caravan of migrants heading […] Read more
Erdoğan is running for president, of course, but who else is in the running for control? What is happening in Turkey? The country will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June. If no candidate wins an outright majority in the first round of the presidential elections, a second round will be held on […] Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe’s ruling party was declared the winner early Friday morning of the country’s first elections since the fall of authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe. But the opposition, which has accused the ruling party of vote rigging, has vowed to protest the result. According to the election commission, Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a […] Read more
Recently, a two-time BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Indian Parliament), Chandan Mitra, also the owner and editor of an English-language daily, left the saffron party and joined the Bengal-based All India Trinamool Congress. His desertion is seen as a signal that a section of those who celebrated Narendra Modi’s victory […] Read more
