The election in the United States|Biden's resignation
Biden is expected to answer questions about the defection tonight
At 02:00 tonight, Swedish time, Joe Biden will address the nation. It will be the first public appearance the president makes since he announced on Sunday that he will not run for re-election.
According to American media, Biden is expected to answer questions about the defection in more detail, TT writes. The president, who isolated himself with covid-19 but was declared healthy yesterday, writes on X that the speech should be about "what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people".
Biden has been clear that he intends to remain in office for the remaining six months of his term, despite several Republican voices urging him to resign immediately.
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The election in the United States|The electoral movement
Soros and Netflix founder back Kamala Harris
Several American business profiles express their support for Kamala Harris as the next US president, reports Business Insider.
Meta's former chief executive Sheryl Sandberg writes on Instagram that Harris is the "strongest candidate to lead our country".
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has in turn donated $7 million to Kamala Harris' campaign.
Billionaires Melinda French Gates and George Soros have also announced they are behind the current vice president.
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The shift of power in the Tory Party
Tugendhat wants to lead the Tories - challenges James Cleverly
Britain's former security minister Tom Tugendhat is entering the fight to succeed Rishi Sunak as leader of the Tory Party, he announces in a debate article in The Telegraph.
"The key to victory is a simple word: trust. We must win back the trust of the British people by putting our trust in them," he writes.
He thus becomes the second Tory politician to run after former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who announced his decision on Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak announced his resignation earlier in July after the Tories made their worst election in the party's nearly 200-year history, and Labor took power in a landslide victory.
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The violence in Colombia
Boy dead in Colombia's first deadly drone attack
For the first time, a person has died in Colombia as a result of a drone attack, writes AFP. It concerns a 10-year-old boy who, according to the Ministry of Defence, was killed when a drone belonging to a left-wing guerrilla dropped a grenade.
Guerrilla groups in the country use ordinary hobbyist drones to drop homemade explosives targeting government soldiers, according to the news agency.
According to the Minister of Defence, it is a group that broke away from the Farc guerrillas and is also engaged in drug smuggling that is behind the crime.
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