As US President Joe Biden embarks on his bid for a second term, a cast of characters that looks at once novel and familiar has lined up to stand in his way.. Despite his historic indictment -- or perhaps because of it -- former president Trump is soaring ahead of the chasing pack in his bid for the Republican Party's nomination, and a rematch against Biden looks like the most likely outcome.
Everything on Joe Biden's to-do list the day he took office as the oldest US president in history was difficult.. Certainly Biden's personal sales pitch has never changed: he's the Washington insider with unparalleled experience of government and world affairs, yet also "middle class Joe," a leader who knows what the little guy goes through.
US presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis on Tuesday stressed the importance of warding off conflict over Taiwan, telling a Japanese media outlet that "what China respects is strength".. "Ultimately, what China respects is strength," he told the outlet.
Chinese authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with spying, over a year after he was detained while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a media rights group said.. The diplomat was released after a few hours of questioning, the Japanese foreign ministry said last year.
Fears were growing in Kenya on Tuesday that there could be more victims of a starvation cult as investigators resumed their searches after finding dozens of corpses in mass graves.. Nothing prepares you for shallow mass graves of children."
A French court halted the controversial clearance of a slum due Tuesday aimed at expelling migrants from its Indian Ocean island territory of Mayotte -- a plan that has sparked clashes between locals and security forces and sparked tensions with neighbouring Comoros.. The operation, called Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back" in the local language), aims to expel migrants from urban slums on Mayotte to improve living conditions for locals in France's poorest department.
Colombia forced top Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido to leave its borders on Monday, hours after he arrived in Bogota for a conference on his crisis-torn country, an opposition source told AFP. "It forced him," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding Guaido was "going to the United States on a commercial flight," without providing further detail.. The opposition source confirmed that Guaido did not go through immigration when he arrived in Colombia.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Tuesday pledged support for "solid diplomatic ally" Taiwan during a visit to the self-ruled island that has been slammed by China.. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen thanked Giammattei for his support.
A Japanese space start-up will attempt Tuesday to become the first private company to put a lander on the Moon.. However, Japan and the United States announced last year that they would cooperate on a plan to put a Japanese astronaut on the Moon by the end of the decade.
After paying nearly $100,000 in ransoms to free 10 family members, Khaled Taalou, a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, is still working to free other missing relatives kidnapped by Islamic State group fighters.. He estimated 2,855 Yazidis remain missing and said his team works tirelessly to "gather the available information and free all the kidnapped".
