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Biden heralds shift in Washington's strategy toward Venezuela

15-11-2020 08:03 Democratic leader's arrival in the White House could help pave the way for a political solution to crisis in Venezuela, with use of sanctions against social administration in Caracas likely to be more targeted.

Biden faces tall order reviving Washington's global role

14-11-2020 10:49 US President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to restore America’s moral authority in the world but after four years of norms-shattering by Donald Trump, he will have his work cut out for him.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Trump’s biggest orphan

09-11-2020 17:54 Bolsonaro is now Trump’s most prominent orphan in the Americas, and his politics by tantrum may ring hollow absent the hemisphere’s alpha provocateur.

by Mac Margolis

World leaders congratulate Biden, call for on unity, cooperation

08-11-2020 08:22 World leaders, including President Alberto Fernández, congratulate president-elect Joe Biden on victory in US election, with many expressing hopes of unity and cooperation following four years of Donald Trump diplomacy.

Biden has plenty of know-how – he’s going to need it

07-11-2020 14:21 The presidency is a management job and a political job, and Joe Biden appears to have the right experience and skills to succeed in both parts of it.

Joe Biden wins race for White House, ending Trump presidency

07-11-2020 14:00 Democrat Joe Biden has won the race for the White House, US media projected Saturday, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that has left the United States more divided than at any time in decades.

Biden takes lead in key state of Pennsylvania, reports US media

06-11-2020 11:09 Democrat Joe Biden has taken the lead in key battleground state Pennsylvania, where a victory for the former vice-president would push him past the threshold of electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Biden's hold on race tightens as he overtakes Trump in Georgia

06-11-2020 07:54 Biden's momentum towards the White House grows amid reports he has overtaken Trump by a razor-thin margin in the crucial battleground state of Georgia.

Trump spews out unverified claims as Biden closes in on US presidency

05-11-2020 21:41 Providing no evidence and taking no questions afterward from reporters in the room, Trump uses 17-minute White House address to deliver incendiary statements about the United States.

Without evidence, Trump again accuses Democrats of 'stealing' election

05-11-2020 21:36 Republican leader questions credibility of US election in White House address, complaining that polling had overstated Biden’s lead in many battleground states and the ongoing count of mail-in votes was eroding his lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

In Biden's hometown, supporters, journalists play waiting game

05-11-2020 15:26 In Joe Biden's hometown of Wilmington, everyone is anxiously waiting for the winner of the knife-edge presidential election to be announced. 

US formally quits Paris agreement but Biden pledges return

05-11-2020 10:47 United States leaves Paris accord, but Joe Biden vowed he would immediately return as president.

Win or lose, Trump's movement stronger and bigger than ever

04-11-2020 22:47 The election is still up in the air, but one thing is for certain: the movement created by Donald Trump is alive and well, and more solid than pundits expected. 

Peaceful protests in New York as tensions rise in Detroit

04-11-2020 22:27 Thousands of Biden supporters march in New York to demand every vote in tight election be counted, as some Trump supporters protest in Detroit, demanding a halt to ballot counting in the key state of Michigan.

Biden inches closer to victory, but his presidency will be born weak

04-11-2020 17:35 Democratic hopeful Joe Biden is inching closer to victory in the US election. But even if the former vice-president wins the race for the White House, his presidency will be weak from the get-go.

by Leandro Dario

Could the US election be decided in the courts?

04-11-2020 16:29 Donald Trump's objections raise the spectre of the US presidential election being ultimately decided, as in 2000, by a high court ruling on how states can tally votes or conduct recounts.

Trump alleges 'surprise ballot dumps' in states where he was leading

04-11-2020 12:48 US president alleges that there had been "surprise ballot dumps" in states where he had been leading Democrat Joe Biden in the race for the White House. Once again, he provides no evidence for claim.

For Florida Latinos, Trump's tough talk against socialism rang true

04-11-2020 11:32 Trump's victory in Florida owes much to his strident denunciation of leftist governments in Latin America, which resonated loud and clear with conservative Hispanics in the southeastern state.

Hardly a surprise – a look at Trump's long-running fraud claims

04-11-2020 09:57 The Republican has a long history of alleging that elections are rigged – especially when the results are not to his liking.

Trump falsely claims victory, vows court action in knife-edge election

04-11-2020 09:45 US election was plunged into chaos early Wednesday as US President Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and sought Supreme Court intervention to stop vote-counting.