Opinion polls underestimated the level of Donald Trump’s support for the third US presidential election in a row, predicting a neck-and-neck race with Kamala Harris when in the end the Republican edged the vice president across battleground states.Trump’s win involved surging support in a number of demographics and regions, but experts said pollsters failed to …
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Germany entered a major political crisis on Wednesday with the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition likely paving the way for early elections next year.The turmoil hits Europe’s biggest economy as it grapples with a sustained downturn and as Berlin worries about the impact Donald Trump’s return to the White House will have on …
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A wildfire fanned by powerful winds was burning out of control near Los Angeles on Wednesday, with scores of residents ordered to evacuate and some taken to the hospital.Multiple large homes were destroyed as the fire tore through neighborhoods, blanketing a huge area in thick, choking smoke.Fierce gusts up to 80 miles (130 kilometers) an …
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday amid a deep coalition crisis that he will seek a vote of confidence in January that would pave the way for early elections by March.He spoke after firing his rebellious Finance Minister Christian Lindner in a dramatic night session of his three-party coalition, declaring there was no longer any …
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Donald Trump’s crushing presidential victory heralded a new era of upheaval for the United States and the world Wednesday, as defeated Democrat Kamala Harris gave a defiant concession speech, while promising to help his transition.An emotional vice president Harris told cheering supporters in Washington “do not despair” and she urged them to “keep fighting.”But her …
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Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been dubbed the “Scholzomat” for a dry personal style bordering on the robotic, but also hailed as a safe pair of hands leading a country that values stability.But on Wednesday night, as political turmoil ended his fractious three-way coalition, order collapsed and power has started to slip from his grasp …
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Donald Trump’s US election victory was, at least in part, down to his success in pinning the blame for a post-pandemic inflationary surge on the Biden-Harris administration.But analysts say some of Trump’s own economic plans, from hiking tariffs to reining in the Fed’s independence, risk undoing the US central bank’s progress against inflation, potentially pushing …
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Donald Trump has pledged to launch — on day one of his presidency — the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in US history.Carrying it out may be another matter.”Rhetoric is one thing,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell University. “Actual implementation is something else.””The Constitution provides due process for everyone …
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The United States and the world faced a radically transformed political landscape Wednesday after Donald Trump won a crushing election victory, defeating Kamala Harris in an astonishing comeback to the White House.Harris, who had described Trump as a threat to democracy, rang to congratulate him before she was due to deliver a concession speech at …
Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban that almost eradicated the crop.Currently, 12,800 hectares of poppies are cultivated in Afghanistan — where up to 80 percent of the population depends on agriculture — a new survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs …
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