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  • Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 18:26 UTC

    Trump not so eager to debate Harris again

    The Republican candidate insisted Tuesday's debate was “rigged” against him

    Former US President Donald Trump said he felt now “less inclined” to hold another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris after Tuesday's clash which the Democratic hopeful was deemed to have won, albeit with some assistance from ABC’s moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, whose performance he found to have been ”dishonest.” Trump also admitted that he would consider a rematch if hosted by “a fair network.” Now it is Harris who was said to be looking forward to another round.

  • Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    Harris shows Trump she is not Joseph Biden

    Harris was said to have won the debate, albeit with some help from ABC's moderators

    The Democratic Party dusted off all fears Tuesday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after Vice President Kamala Harris' performance in the TV debate against former President Donald Trump.

  • Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission lifts off for first-ever non-professional spacewalk

    The spacewalk is scheduled for Thursday and is expected to be broadcast live

    Internet Service Provider (ISP) Starlink's parent company SpaceX Tuesday launched the Polaris Dawn manned mission featuring a billionaire, a pilot, and two female company employees for the performance of the first-ever private spacewalk in history.

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Machado urges US to recognize González Urrutia as as President-elect of Venezuela

    “We need to move forward,” Machado argued

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado insisted Thursday that the United States should recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of the July 28 elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed despite producing no evidence to support these allegations other than a declaration from the pro-Government National Electoral Council (CNE) and a ruling validating it from the subservient electoral branch of the Supreme Court (TSJ).

  • Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 22:02 UTC

    US seizes aircraft belonging to Maduro's fleet

    Maduro's Dassault Falcon 900EX can seat up to 16 people

    Venezuela's Chavista Government Tuesday argued that the seizing in the Dominican Republic by US authorities of an aircraft occasionally used by President Nicolás Maduro constituted a “criminal” act of “piracy.”

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    De Moraes now freezes Starlink's accounts to collect fines on X

    ”De Moraes' colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unable or unwilling to confront him,” Musk's X argued

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes Thursday froze internet supplier Starlink's accounts to guarantee the payments of the fines he imposed on the social media platform X, Agencia Brasil reported. Both X and Starlink are owned by South African-born tycoon Elon Musk, who has repeatedly dubbed the magistrate “a dictator.”

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Foundation stone laid for Google's data center in Uruguay

    Google's data center will cost US$ 850 million and be ready in 26 months, it was explained

    Representatives of technology giant Google and the Uruguayan Government, including President Luis Lacalle Pou, took part Thursday in the ceremony marking the laying of the foundation stone for the company's future data center in Pando, in the department (province) of Canelones, within Montevideo's Metropolitan Area.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Harris accepts Democratic Party nomination for US presidency

    Harris thus became the first woman of non-white ethnicity to vy for such a high office

    US Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for the Nov. 5 presidential elections where she will face former Republican President Donald Trump and nobody else, after independent runner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped his bid to endorse the former head of state. Her acceptance speech ceremony also featured performances by Democratic Party supporters Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Pink.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 08:50 UTC

    Eleven countries in the Americas not to honor Caracas' TSJ ruling

    In a separate declaration, Patel said that a ruling “by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Court of Justice has no credibility”

    Eleven countries in the Americas issued a statement Friday saying they would not be recognizing Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruling declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections without producing any of the voting minutes to back up such a claim.

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 08:08 UTC

    RFK Jr. sidesteps from presidential bid to support Trump

    “He is a phenomenal person, a phenomenal man who loves the people of this country,” Trump said of RFK Jr. during their joint appearance

    Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) Friday dropped his campaign and joined forces with former Republican President Donald Trump ahead of the Nov. 5 elections in the United States as both made a joint appearance at a rally in Arizona to announce the news.