Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  US officially becomes first nation to quit the Paris climate accord; if Biden wins the measure will be reversed

  

  The U.S. has officially become the first nation to quit the Paris climate agreement, even as the outcome of the country’s presidential race remains undetermined. President Donald Trump, who’s fighting for re-election, moved to withdraw from the landmark environmental accord exactly one year ago, abandoning a global effort to curb carbon emissions and slow global warming. The U.S. exit formally took effect Wednesday, the day after the vote.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolsonaro refrains from commenting on the potential winner of US election

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on the potential winner of the tight U.S. election, but reiterated his support for President Donald Trump, and suggested Democratic challenger Joe Biden would interfere on issues like the Amazon rainforest if elected.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  US business groups urge candidates, citizens and media to allow time to count votes

  

  Business groups across the United States on Wednesday urged Republican President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, the media, and all Americans to allow time to count all valid ballots cast in the close 2020 election.

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Biden urges Democrats to “keep the faith”, while Trump announces he will go the US Supreme Court

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump daringly claimed victory in the presidential election on Wednesday — despite no winner being declared and millions of votes waiting to be counted in several key battleground states — as Joe Biden urged Democrats to “keep the faith” and wait for the final results.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Trump and Biden with their legal teams ready for post-election disputes

  

  The US President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden have made a last-ditch push for votes in battleground a state on the last day of campaigning, as each party prepares for post-election disputes that could prolong a divisive presidential election.

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 18:14 UTC

  Madame Tussauds in Berlin removes the effigy of president Trump

  

  The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday's presidential election.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 14:33 UTC

  More than 80 million Americans have already cast votes, 58% of total 2016 turnout

  

  More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, setting the stage for the highest participation rate in over a century.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  World Medical Association blasts leaders who discredit science and sponsor fake news on coronavirus

  

  The spreading of fake news and discredited science by world leaders has led to many people dying and others being exposed to Covid-19, according to the departing President of the World Medical Association. In his valedictory address to this week’s WMA’s annual Assembly, Dr. Miguel Jorge, a psychiatrist from Brazil, mentioned both the Presidents of Brazil and the United States as contributing to more people being exposed to the virus and more deaths.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  US rejects Nigerian candidate as next WTO director-general, further paralyzing the global trade watchdog

  

  The World Trade Organization's (WTO) bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty this Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog's next director-general.

• Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Catholic and “originalist” Judge Barrett ensures a conservative majority in the US Supreme Court

  

  Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the US Supreme Court came as little surprise. The long-term academic, appeals court judge and mother of seven was the hot favorite for the Supreme Court seat.