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It was meant to be the high-flying solo press conference that cemented Joe Biden's status as the leader of the most influential nation on Earth.

Facing calls from within his own party to drop out, concerns about the US President will only grow after today's gaffes.

The A-lister says "every senator and governor" is privately saying the same thing, just weeks after raising $44 million for the president.

The former president has sent out his first campaign manifesto as he looks to secure his candidacy.

In a letter to congressional Democrats, he stood firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy and called for an end to the drama that has torn the party apart.

The uncertainty is expected to rattle markets and cast a shadow of instability over the Olympic Games.

"Our work is urgent and we begin it today," Starmer said in his first speech outside 10 Downing Street as prime minister.

Questions about his fitness for office have swirled since his halting debate performance against Trump.

On his first day in office, Keir Starmer will get briefings from senior civil servants about key issues facing the government, receive congratulatory phone calls from world leaders and begin the process of appointing his Cabinet.

Labour will grab power from the Conservatives for the first time in 14 years in what will be a landslide victory.

When incoming UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke after winning his constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, there were a couple of notable figures sharing the stage with him.

Voters didn't leave the media's headline writers with a lot of choice when it came to calling the election result.

Dutiful, managerial, a bit dull — Keir Starmer is no one's idea of a firebrand politician. The Labour Party hopes that is just what Britain wants.

Sunak surprised pundits and most of his own lawmakers when he set the election for July 4. Now he might be heading for a wipeout.

Jen O'Malley Dillon held the virtual meeting with about 500 donors, whose pictures spread across 21 pages of Zoom screens.

The US Supreme Court has sent Donald Trump's immunity case back to a lower court in Washington, dimming prospect of a pre-election trial.

The projection is a major slap to centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his risky decision to call the surprise ballot.

The first round of voting has delivered strong but not decisive gains to the far-right National Rally.

The vote could put the government in the hands of nationalist, far-right parties for the first time since the Nazi era.

Biden and Trump face fierce headwinds. Both candidates are disliked by majorities of Americans and offer sharply different visions on virtually every core issue.

When the votes were counted, it was discovered that 23 electors had voted twice, with the former councillor's DNA found on all 23 ballots.

In the coming days, the US Supreme Court will confront a perfect storm mostly of its own making: a trio of decisions stemming directly from the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

They fear the former president may make public statements against those who convicted him, inciting his supporters to "identify jurors and threaten violence against them".

A senior Conservative Party lawmaker said if people used inside information to bet, it would be "deeply wrong".

Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018.

Populist firebrand Nigel Farage has been targeted with thrown objects for the second time in the week he's been involved in the United Kingdom's general election campaign.

A four-day election has shaken the foundations of the European Union, with the far right rocking ruling parties in France and Germany.

Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, at points telling his supporters to ask for help if needed and appearing irritable with the teleprompters that he said were not working.

The British PM has apologised for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail – a decision slammed as disgraceful by his political rivals.

But the main opposition Congress party said the election had been a "moral and political loss" for Modi.

Labor could have its worst result since it came to power in 2015 according to Redbridge's poll of 880 Queenslanders.

"We've all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters."

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system 30 years ago.

The elections in coming days will determine thousands of roles from the presidency down.

The 12-person jury was sent home after about four and a half hours of deliberations.

All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the Tories win.

Sunak said he'd asked King Charles III to formally dissolve parliament and the monarch had agreed.

It comes amid an inquiry into claims of huge losses on his Chicago skyscraper.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was barely able to point to any big success for his Conservative Party.

Australia will be watching the Pacific nation's incoming government over its stance on regional security.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

The Solomon Islands' pro-China leader has pulled out of the fight to remain as the Pacific nation's prime minister, in a decision sure to be felt in Canberra, Washington and Beijing.

Nearly 970 million people - more than 10 per cent of the world's population - are casting their vote.

Polls opened Friday for the first and largest phase of India's marathon general election, kicking off a vote in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to win a rare third consecutive term.

The shadow of China looms over the small Pacific nation as Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare bids for re-election.

It will decide who takes the seat of our former prime minister, but the electoral commission is already concerned by the low turnout.

The Republican frontrunner has long played into anti-Semitic tropes, lashing out at Jewish Americans he says don't support him enough.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden reported collecting $39.5 million from a recent fundraiser that featured former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

9News earlier revealed there were serious questions about whether Speirs should remain as party leader.

The Liberal party is heading for a historic defeat in the Dunstan byelection in Adelaide.