9 h. ago Guinea's Doumbouya is sworn in as president, cementing transition from junta chief to elected leader

Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya has been sworn in as president of Guinea after winning last year's presidential election

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13 h. ago Uganda’s President secures seventh term as opposition rejects ‘fake results’

The musician-turned-politician best known as Bobi Wine condemned what he described as an unfair electoral process

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31 h. ago Uganda’s opposition leader ‘taken by army’ as Museveni nears re

Bobi Wine flown to unknown location, his party says, hours after security forces allegedly killed 10 of his campaignersThe Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was taken from his house and brought to an unknown location on Friday, his party said as President Yoweri Museveni closed in on a landslide re-election.Wine’s National Unity Platform party said on Friday evening in a post on X that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in the capital, Kampala, and “forcibly taken him away to an unknown destination”. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Bobi Wine ‘forcibly taken’ from home as Uganda’s Museveni nears landslide re

Opposition leader taken by army helicopter to unknown location, his party says, hours after security forces allegedly kill 10 campaign staffThe Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was taken from his house and brought to an unknown location on Friday, his party said as President Yoweri Museveni closed in on a landslide re-election.Wine’s National Unity Platform party said on Friday evening in a post on X that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in the capital, Kampala, and “forcibly taken him away to an unknown destination”. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago CIA chief visits Maduro successor as Machado vows to become Venezuela’s president

John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessorThe CIA chief whose agents reputedly played a key role in abducting Nicolás Maduro has flown to Venezuela to meet his successor as the sidelined opposition leader, María Corina Machado, vowed she would become the country’s first elected female president.Machado’s comments were broadcast on Friday, a day after she handed her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump in recognition of what she called a principled and decisive move against Maduro, whom US special forces snatched on 3 January. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Ugandan opposition MP says security forces stormed home killing 10 people

Muwanga Kivumbi says campaign staff shot dead after elections expected to extend President Yoweri Museveni’s ruleA senior member of the Ugandan opposition has said security forces stormed his house early on Friday morning and shot dead 10 members of his campaign team after a general election that was expected to result in President Yoweri Museveni extending his nearly four-decade grip on power.Muwanga Kivumbi, of the National Unity Platform (NUP), told Reuters the incident happened at about 3am local time when security forces “broke the front door and began shooting” inside a garage where the people were waiting for the results of the election for his parliamentary seat to be announced. “It was a massacre,” he said. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Early results show Museveni leading Uganda election amid reports of violence

Veteran president holding off main challenger Bobi Wine after campaign marred by violence at opposition ralliesThe veteran Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, held a commanding lead in early presidential election results announced on Friday, as conflicting accounts emerged of violence after the vote.Museveni, who is 81 and has ruled Uganda since seizing power in 1986, is seeking a decisive victory after a campaign marred by violence at opposition rallies. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Early results show Museveni in lead in Uganda election as violence reported

Veteran president holding off main challenger Bobi Wine after campaign marred by violence at opposition ralliesThe veteran Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, held a commanding lead in early presidential election results announced on Friday as conflicting accounts emerged of violence reported after the vote.Museveni, who is 81 and has ruled Uganda since seizing power in 1986, wants a decisive victory following a campaign marred by violence at opposition rallies. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago ‘Absolutely no detail’: experts alarmed as Trump unveils healthcare plan

Months after Trump spoke of ‘concepts of a plan’, framework offers few specifics – and could stall in CongressDonald Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited framework for healthcare affordability, almost a year and a half after announcing during a pre-election presidential debate that he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform.The short document, titled the Great Healthcare Plan, provides four headline objectives, but few specific details as to how they will be achieved. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump’s approval with Gen Z has dropped a massive 42 points in the past year, polling finds

Trump won over more young voters in the 2024 election than in his two previous runs for president

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4 d. ago Alleged plot to kill Costa Rica’s president uncovered ahead of elections

Authorities received a call from a woman who reported a supposed plot against the president

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4 d. ago Trump administration designates 3 Muslim Brotherhood chapters as global terrorists

The Muslim Brotherhood briefly held power in Egypt after winning the 2012 presidential election

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5 d. ago Marine Le Pen’s appeal against embezzlement conviction to begin

Paris trial’s outcome will determine whether leader of far-right National Rally can run for French presidency in 2027The French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen will face a fresh trial on appeal on Tuesday over the embezzlement of European parliament funds in a case that will determine whether or not she can run in the 2027 presidential election.Le Pen, 57, who leads the far-right, anti-immigration National Rally (RN), was considered to be a contender for next year’s election until she was barred from running for public office last March after being found guilty of an extensive and long-running fake jobs scam. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Can Marine Le Pen run in France’s 2027 presidential election? Far

Le Pen was a frontrunner in the forthcoming presidential elections before her conviction

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6 d. ago A $400,000 payout after Maduro's capture is putting prediction markets in the spotlight

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

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7 d. ago Photos show opposition leader Bobi Wine campaigning ahead of Uganda's presidential election

Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate, a musician-turned-politician known as Bobi Wine, campaigns ahead of next week's election.

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9 d. ago Vance snarls and swipes in defence of Ice agent – was the boss impressed?

The vice-president went ballistic against the media and the left – a version of Trump with even more menaceIt was James David Vance’s pitch to his boss: don’t forget me!The vice-president was nowhere to be seen last weekend when US special forces swept into Venezuela and snatched its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Instead Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and a potential rival to Vance in the 2028 presidential election, grabbed all the Maga glory. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Senate Democrats ridicule Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to ‘steal’ Venezuela’s oil ‘at gunpoint’

Rubio and Hegseth reject criticism that they have ‘no plan’ for Venezuela’s future, even as they can’t say when elections will be held or whether vice president can remain

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1 week ago Trump says 'no one worse than Obama' as he claims 2020 election 'was rigged'

Trump said 'nobody is worse than Obama' as he falsely claims the 2020 presidential election was 'rigged' on the fifth anniversary of the deadly Capitol attack

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1 week ago María Corina Machado vows to return to Venezuela and rejects rule of Maduro’s deputy

Opposition leader says her movement is ready to win a fair election and praises Trump for toppling the presidentFrom elation to frustration: Trump snub wrongfoots Venezuela’s oppositionThe Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has vowed to return to the country as soon as possible and rejected the authority of the interim president backed – for now – by the US after it forcibly removed Nicolás Maduro from power.Machado told Fox News from an undisclosed location that her movement was ready to win a free election, and praised Donald Trump for toppling Maduro. Continue reading...

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