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President of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro won the Presidential elections held on July 28 by defeating the national opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. As per the election council announcement, Maduro got 51.2 per cent of the votes polled as against 44.2 per cent received by Gonzalez. The council said that with about 80 per cent of the vote counted, Maduro had secured more than five million compared to 4.4 million in favour of the opposition candidate.

In a sweeping step to modernise their alliance in the face of mounting security threats in Asia, particularly the South China Sea, US and Japan have announced plans to further the bilateral military cooperation.

Donald Trump was facing an easy ride to the White House when he was matched against Joe Biden. Now he has to face off against Kamala Harris things look very different. Trump has good reason to be scared.

The new coalition government of South Africa formed last month after the national elections on May 29 is facing a major crisis as the leading party African National Congress (ANC) has been taken to court by its partner Democratic Alliance (DA) on the issue of a speech delivered by the President Cyril Ramaphosa during the election campaign.

G20 has made a history to agree on working together to ensure ultra-rich are taxed effectively, even after the United States dismissed the need for an international accord on the matter for now. The agreement was reached on July 25 at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro. The text will be presented at the G-20 summit in Brazil on November 18 and 19 this year.

Venezuela’s Presidential election on July 28 takes place in a context dominated by Venezuela’s robust economic recovery, which, considering the calamitous situation the country found itself as late as the end of 2020, the 1 per cent rate of inflation June this year and an expected rate of growth for 2024 of between 5 to 8 per cent, is near miraculous. The incumbent president of the socialist coalition Nicholas Maduro is defending his seat against the national opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez.

Venezuela is at cross road as the country with 31 million population is going to elect the next President in the Presidential polls scheduled on Sunday, July 28. President Nicholas Maduro who is ruling the South American nation since 2013 is being challenged by the national opposition nominee Edmundo Gonzalez.

NEW YORK: Vice President Kamala Harris has reminded all of a key insight into social and political analysis. In what has become a signature catchphrase, none of us just “fell out of a coconut tree.” We “exist in the context of everything that has come before us.” Karl Marx himself couldn’t have said it better.

The United States could elect its first female President in 248 years. As America celebrated its birthday on July 4, it's important to note that the country has never had a woman as its head of state. Hillary Clinton almost won the Presidency but ultimately failed.

President Joe Biden has stood down and, in his stead, Vice President Kamala Harris will be Democrat candidate for the President’s post. And if she beats Donald J. Trump in November, Kamala will be laughing all the way to the White House. Harris’ defining tone is her trademark laugh and Kamala is a mix of African-American and Indian American. If elected President, Kamala Harris will be the first woman to break the glass ceiling.