Google will stop carrying election ads in the Philippines ahead of the May 2022 presidential vote, the internet giant said Wednesday, similar to action it has taken in the United States (US).Alarm has been raised in recent years by governments and election watchdogs over the use of targeted political advertising, especially disinformation campaigns to sway voters.The updated policy goes into effect on 8 February, covering ads on Google, YouTube and its other platforms including shopping.&quot

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia's top election official, a fellow Republican, in an extraordinary phone conversation to "find" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the Southern state, United States (US) media reported Sunday.In the conversation with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, a recording of which was first obtained by The Washington Post, Trump warns Raffensperger that he and his general counsel could face "a big risk"

Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, United States (US) media said Saturday, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades.CBS, NBC and CNN news networks announced the result just before 11:30 am (1630 GMT) as an insurmountable lead in Pennsylvania took Biden, 77, over the top in the state-by-state count that decides the presidency."America, I'm honoured th

President Donald Trump erupted Thursday in a tirade of unsubstantiated claims that he has been cheated out of winning the United States (US) election as vote counting across battleground states showed Democrat Joe Biden steadily closing in on victory."They are trying to steal the election," Trump said in an extraordinary statement at the White House two days after polls closed.Providing no evidence and taking no questions afterward from reporters in the room, Trump used the remarks

Democrats and Republicans girded Wednesday for a legal showdown to decide the winner of the tight presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.After Trump declared overnight, he was ready to go to the United States (US) Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes, his campaign announced a demand for a recount in Wisconsin and lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states which each side needs to win the presidency.Trump's behaviour raised

At certain moments in history – often after substantial social progress has discomfited certain segments of society – an individual appears on the political scene claiming to stand for something grand and new. Skilled in the arts of self-presentation and emotional manipulation, he (it is always a man) captures the hearts and minds of millions with his macho bluster. In due time, a personality cult forms around him.

Early results showed a tight race in United States (US) battleground states Tuesday as Joe Biden hopes that a polarized electorate will defeat President Donald Trump in the face of a deadly pandemic. Preliminary figures showed a deeply divided nation and mixed signs for each candidate, with Biden appearing to underperform in the crucial state of Florida as Trump made inroads in Cuban-American-dominated Miami.But Biden was also outpacing Trump in suburban areas that have traditionally

The strange and dispiriting United States (US) presidential election campaign has been marked by an absence of substantive debate and a deluge of lies. As Joe Biden said of Donald Trump in the first televised debate, “The fact is that everything he’s saying so far is simply a lie. I’m not here to call out his lies. Everybody knows he’s a liar.”In politics, the more that lies are employed, the more grounds there are for each side to accuse the other of lying.

It's been a campaign for the history books, upended by the COVID-19 pandemic and taking place in a nation on edge after a summer of civil unrest.

For China, at least, United States (US) President Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.