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News India Latest News Live Today: Heavy rains across India as monsoon shifts south Today’s latest news: Heavy rains alert issued in Kerala, schools closed in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka Today’s latest news: The monsoon has been active for the past few days with average rainfall across the country exceeding 250mm. (File)Today’s latest news: Heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in several parts of the country today as India’s monsoon is on a downward trend. In southern states, a red alert for heavy rain has been issued for three districts of Kerala and parts of Karnataka, and authorities…

Millions of Rwandans headed to the polls on Monday in a bid to handily win for President Paul Kagame, extending his iron fisted rule for another five years. Rwanda votes to extend Kagame’s rule {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Kagame has been Rwanda’s de facto leader since the end of the genocide in 1994 and president since 2000, but is facing just two candidates after several prominent critics were barred from running. Explore Crickit, your go-to platform to watch matches anytime, anywhere, click here. This line-up is a mirror image of the last election in 2017, when Kagame swept past his…

Millions of Rwandans headed to the polls on Monday in a bid to handily win for President Paul Kagame, extending his iron fisted rule for another five years. Rwanda votes with Kagame likely to extend his rule Kagame has been Rwanda’s de facto leader since the end of the genocide in 1994 and president since 2000, but is facing just two candidates after several prominent critics were barred from running. This line-up is a mirror image of the last election in 2017, when Kagame swept past his rivals with almost 99% of the vote, leaving little doubt about the outcome…

President Joe Biden had just begun to turn the tide in his reelection bid, but the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump has cost him his most powerful tool: drawing attention to his opponent’s actions and the policies he plans for a second term.Plagued by doubts about his mental health and pressure to step down, Biden fired back with an energetic speech in Detroit on Friday, vowing to “shine the spotlight” on Trump — a claim he intended to hold until Election Day in November.Nearly 24 hours later, shots rang out at a Trump rally about 200 miles away in…

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Joe Biden was bracing for a week-long political onslaught.More Democrats are expected to publicly call for him to withdraw from the 2024 race, a grueling campaign schedule will showcase his stamina and key television interviews are sure to put the spotlight back on questions about his age, health and fitness to serve a second term.That all seemed to change Saturday evening when gunshots rang out at a Donald Trump political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.For at least a moment, politics all but ground to a halt. As bipartisan calls poured in from across the country condemning the…

Doug Mills, the veteran New York Times photojournalist who took the now-iconic image of a bullet whizzing past Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, said the former president was “just so angry” as he pumped his fist. Doug Mills’ photo of a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “The next thing you know, it was like the blood just drained from his face… he was blue and you could see blood on the side of his face,” Mills told The New York Times. Explore Crickit, your go-to platform to watch matches anytime, anywhere,…

The 20-year-old nursing home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a Republican and packed explosives in a car heading to a campaign rally an hour away from his home.Law enforcement officials were trying to get more information about the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to determine a motive for opening fire from a rooftop near the rally, killing one spectator before being shot dead by Secret Service agents.The FBI said Sunday that it has yet to identify the ideology, threatening texts or social media posts behind Crooks. Crooks graduated from…

An adventurer sailing solo across the Atlantic Ocean finds himself unexpectedly escorted on the high seas when he encounters a pod of pilot whales, leaving him both excited and fearful for his life. Tom Waddington, who was rowing from Newfoundland to England, said in an Instagram post that he found himself surrounded by long-finned pilot whales after a drizzle on the morning of July 7. “This is amazing,” Waddington said in the video. “There’s a pod of whales circling the boat, playing. It’s so much fun, but I’m so scared I’m going to get hit by the rudder. They’re so…

Donald Trump on Sunday vowed to formally become the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention after surviving an assassination attempt further inflamed already bitter US political divisions. Police officers on the floor of the Fiserv Forum ahead of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Sunday, July 14, 2024. Former President Donald Trump confirmed he will attend next week’s Republican National Convention, hours after he was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Photographer: Hannah Beyer/Bloomberg {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Democratic President Joe Biden said he had ordered an investigation into how a 20-year-old man carrying an…

Other Democratic candidates running this year are also rethinking their plans, focusing on the dangers that Trump poses if elected.Rather than attacking Trump in the coming days, the White House and Biden team will likely rely on the president’s history of condemning all political violence | Image: BloombergReuters President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is scrambling to come up with a new strategy, including suspending attacks on the former president for the time being, following an assassination attempt on Republican rival Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania. Within hours of Saturday’s shooting, the Biden campaign pulled its television ads and halted other…