Global media are reacting to the victory of Republican Donald Trump, who will become the 47th U.S. president after a turbulent, defiant and ultimately triumphant campaign against Kamala Harris.
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As Republican candidate Donald Trump is confirmed to have secured the U.S. presidential election, international news websites are devoting their homepages to the 78-year-old politician’s historic comeback.
All media eyes are riveted on the U.S. where voting has begun in a tight presidential contest that will send either Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump to the White House.
Updated August 8, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigned from the U.S. presidency on this day in 1974. Why did Richard Nixon resign? Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal, which was a series of illegal activities conducted by members of his administration. The scandal involved a […]
U.S. President Joe Biden has announced his withdrawal from November’s presidential election after weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats. Newspapers from around the world have reacted to the news, bidding au revoir to the Democratic leader on their front pages.
The assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the American political landscape, and around the world. For the past two days, international newspapers have devoted their front pages to the dramatic attack at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the most serious attempt on a U.S. president since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
With U.S. elections slated for November, support to Ukraine is becoming a divisive electoral issue. Wednesday’s vote in the U.S. Senate over Ukraine aid will be telling, but it won’t end there.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has just pleaded “not guilty” criminal charges linked to his push to overturn 2020 election results. Indicted for the third time in four months, he is still somehow able to use the situation to fuel his campaign for re-election in 2024. The future election, American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux writes, is a choice between democracy and the further criminalization of U.S. politics.