Steve Holland at Reuters has seen what Trump has planned as his ‘counter-programming’, while the DNC takes hours of prime-time and political attention. Trump’s goal, writes Holland, by campaigning this week is to limit the damage to his status of the DNC. National interviews and many in the field-successful states …
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New Zealand will delay its general elections by a month due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in Auckland, said the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Calls were growing from opposition parties to move the elections, with opposition leaders saying it was not “normal and honest” to hold an election while …
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A temperature of 54.4C – as 129.9F – was recorded in Death Valley, California, in what some extreme observers think may be the worst reading ever recorded reliably on the planet. The U.S. National Water Service’s automated weather station at Furnace Creek near the Nevada border hit the extreme height …
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Donald Trump has vowed to use a controversial move to impose unilateral UN sanctions on Tehran, following what the Iranian president said was a humiliating defeat for the US in his bid to extend an arms embargo on Tehran. A day after the UN Security Council overwhelmingly rejected a US …
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5.46am BST05:46 The cause of death in India goes through 50,000 India’s coronavirus death toll hit 50,000 on Monday, with more than 900 new deaths reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. The country conquered Britain last week with the fourth-highest number of deaths in the world, behind the …
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