WASHINGTON (AP) — The big news this week, President Joe Biden said at a weekend Washington roast, was that two candidates had clinched their party’s nomination for president. But one was too old, too mentally unfit for the job, he said. “The other’s me,” Bidden quipped. The digs against Republican Donald Trump kept coming from … Read more
TikTok Music has launched on Wednesday in Australia, Singapore and Mexico to a small group of users. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images When Joe Biden joined TikTok on the eve of the Super Bowl last month, political scientist Maggie Macdonald was struck by what she called the “meta” nature of the president’s first … Read more
MEXICO CITY — As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ever. Julián López, coordinator for the Citizen Movement party in the southern state of … Read more
IRAPUATO, Mexico — Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn western Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City’s central square Friday as the country’s leading presidential candidates officially kicked off their campaigns with promises of greater security and support for the outgoing president’s social programs. Former Mexico City … Read more
Jim Harbaugh has reportedly accepted the Los Angeles Chargers head coaching job, bringing to an end an eventful tenure at his alma mater. Harbaugh left Michigan after leading the Wolverines to their first national championship season since 1997. Harbaugh took over in 2015. There were ups – including three straight Big Ten championships and appearances … Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s highest election authority has excluded two top opposition leaders from the final list of candidates for the West African nation’s presidential election next month. The party of the main challenger called the move a “dangerous precedent” on Sunday. The list published Saturday by Senegal’s Constitutional Council named 20 candidates, including Prime … Read more
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is holding its presidential election on Saturday, a race that China has called a choice between war and peace. China considers the self-ruled island about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off its east coast a breakaway province and has threatened to take control over it, by force if necessary. Taiwan’s election is … Read more
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday named several of his party’s candidates for March’s nationwide election. The ruling party will try to recover cities lost to the opposition’s Republican People’s Party, or CHP, five years ago — including the country’s largest city, Istanbul, and the capital, Ankara. Erdogan said parliamentarian and former … Read more
MOSCOW — Russia’s national elections commission on Friday registered the first two candidates who will compete with President Vladimir Putin in the March election that Putin is all but certain to win. The commission approved putting Leonid Slutsky of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party on the ballot … Read more
The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… THE SUN Liverpool have emerged as “serious candidates” to sign Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer. (Le Parisien) Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci has waxed lyrical about “nasty and tough” England defenders John Stones and Harry Maguire. Bonucci has also revealed he does not regret … Read more