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The top federal investigator of election crimes in the US has resigned just hours after Donald Trump’s attorney general William Barr authorised probes into claims of voter fraud. Richard Pilger, director of the election crimes branch of the Department of Justice, stepped down from the post he has held since …

US President Donald Trump announced on November 2 that he is extending sanctions against Sudan. This is a surprising announcement given recent progress in improving relations between the two nations.To justify its decision, the White House says the crisis triggered by the Sudanese government’s actions and policies that led to …

President Donald Trump on Monday announced by tweet that he had fired his defense secretary Mark Esper, further destabilizing a government already navigating Trump’s refusal to concede election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. “Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service,” Trump said on …

President Donald Trump is not conceding defeat to the President-elect, Joe Biden, saying the election was deeply flawed and he would be heading to court on Monday to challenge the poll. Trump said this in a statement shortly after the media projected the victory of the former Vice-President. He said, …

Votes are still being counted across the United States but Democrat Joe Biden has launched a transition website “so that the Biden-Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One”. On the website, buildbackbetter.com, is the short statement, “The American people will determine who will serve as the next …

The outcome of the US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden neck and neck in key swing states. No candidate can credibly claim to have won as yet, and both campaigns said they had potential paths to victory. Mr Biden’s campaign …

President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he had won the US election, despite the final results not yet being given, and said he would go the Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes. “We did win this election,” Trump said in a speech from the ceremonial East Room of …

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have spent the final hours of the White House race delivering their closing pitch to voters in critical states. Mr Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as Mr Trump toured the voting battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. …

President Donald Trump is opposed to the emergence of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, despite polling 104 votes from 164 member countries on Wednesday to defeat South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Dennis Shea said Washington won’t join a consensus …

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter he is ready to lift Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List but the country would first have to pay $335 million to families of U.S. terror victims. The decision is the fruit of negotiations between officials from the two countries, and the …