World

Three months tomorrow, America will go to the polls. And so far almost every opinion poll tells the same story – President Trump is trailing behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden. 

Turning back to the global impact of coronavirus and in one sense, Uganda is considered to have largely escaped so far the worst effects of the pandemic – with only three deaths from coronavirus, all recorded in the last week.

The President is pushing for schools to re-open despite the rampant spread of coronavirus.

We spoke to Matt Navarra – a social media industry commentator who has previously worked in digital communications for the UK government.

It’s already banned in India, but now the hugely popular social media app TikTok is threatened with being shut down in America.

Usually they come in their millions, but this year the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca numbers just a few thousand.

We spoke to Dr Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

President Trump has floated the idea that this autumn’s presidential election should be delayed, saying that problems with postal ballots mean it will not be fair.

Matt Perault is a former public policy director for Facebook and he testified before the same House committee last year.

Today for the first time, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google, are all appearing in front of the House subcommittee on market dominance.

Last year’s bushfires in Australia were a catastrophe for the people who lost their homes and livelihoods.

For the people of the Balearic islands, where cases of coronavirus are low, the decision of the British government to advise against travel there has serious economic implications.

For the third week running, tens of thousands of Russian demonstrators have been protesting against the arrest of a popular regional governor.

We spoke to Clare Rewcastle Brown, an investigative journalist and editor of the Sarowak report, which helped blow the whistle on the full scale of the 1MDB corruption scandal in Malaysia and across the world.

A court in Malaysia has sentenced the country’s former Prime Minister to 12 years in jail for breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power.