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Africa: Gender Violence Claims Rock Pan-African Parliament

Johannesburg, Claims of gender-based violence have rocked the Pan-African Parliament after representatives tussled over the next president of the institution’s bureau. The incident happened during a session on Monday as the legislators listened to a presentation by an ad-hoc committee formed to harmonise proposals on how to elect the next president. A clip aired by

Defence claims trial ‘political theatre’ as GOP lawyer trashes ex-president’s strategy

The ConversationI analyzed all of Trump’s tweets to find out what he was really sayingPresident Donald Trump uses his smartphone. AP Photo/Alex BrandonThe tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost – and he tweeted: “either a new election should take place or … results nullified.” It sounds familiar, but it wasn’t November

Trump blames states amid claims it could take 10 years to vaccinate US at current pace

President Trump blamed the states for not vaccinating people fast enough. (PA)Operation Warp Speed is not going fast enough.Vaccinating enough Americans to overcome the pandemic spurred on by the coronavirus will take 10 years if the pace of vaccinations stays the same.The immunization program led by Vice President Mike Pence is supposed to make sure

AP FACT CHECK: Trumps bogus claims about Biden win, vaccine

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Trump claims Democrats and the FDA delayed coronavirus vaccine news

President Trump on Monday suggested, without providing evidence, that the Food and Drug Administration and the Democratic Party conspired together to delay the release of a coronavirus vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election. Trump made the claim in a tweet Monday evening, hours after the Pfizer drug company announced an initial analysis of their

Facebook announces new preelection rules for political ads and claims—but will it follow through?

In addition to the mere one-week duration, though, there’s a caveat there. Only new advertisements will be refused; if political groups already have ads in the Facebook pipeline, they will be allowed to boost spending on and visibility of those ads during the final week. Facebook will be showing plenty of political ads in that

Trump Claims Democrats Are Stealing The Election In GOP Convention Meltdown

Trump couldn’t keep it together for five minutes while accepting the Republican nomination as he claimed that Democrats are stealing the election. Trump said: Because we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016. Let’s see what happens. We caught them doing some really bad things. We have to be careful because trying it

Sarah Palin Claims Media Dislikes Conservatives, Has Double Standard Regarding Kamala Harris

Speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) claimed the media dislikes conservatives voices and has a double standard regarding Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who this week was named as Joe Biden’s running mate in the presidential race. “I don’t know if it’s so much a gender thing …” Palin

Newt Gingrich Lies About Mail-In Voting, Claims Democrats Are Trying to “Steal” November Election

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich repeated President Donald Trump’s own false claims about mail-in voting, saying that Democrats can’t win an “honest election” so they are trying “to set up an ability to steal it.” Gingrich pointed to the state of Nevada, which the president announced his administration will sue after its legislature

Trump Claims Obama, Biden Spied on His Campaign

President Donald Trump claimed he’s the victim of “presidential harassment” and alleged that former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden spied on his campaign. PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020 He later quoted Fox Business personality Maria Bartiromo, writing, without evidence, that Obama and Biden spied on his