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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that the results from midterm elections in the United States would usher in a new era in world relations, after millions of voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump. Relations between South Africa and the US are at a low point.This week Trump's administration moved to end South Africa's duty-free access to the US market, after last year cutting financial aid and expelling its previous ambassador to Washington. Trump has targeted the country largely due to what he says is its persecution of white people, which South Africa says is a false narrative spread by fringe groups.’We have seen that the Democrats have taken control of the Senate and of the House, and the people of America have spoken. … I do think that this is going to introduce a new era in world relations,’ Ramaphosa told reporters after casting his vote in South Africa's municipal elections taking place on Wednesday. Ramaphosa said Monday's announcement that South Africa would be suspended from Washington's AGOA trade initiative from January ‘is indeed a negative for us’ and that the focus should be on negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the US. ‘Whilst we are sad that we've been removed from AGOA, our trade relations with the United States continue,’ he added.Ramaphosa said South Africa had been working to secure new export markets and ‘diversification has now become the order of the day’....
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first Muslim elected to the chamber while preserving a crucial Democratic seat in the party's fight for Senate control. El-Sayed's victory in the closely contested election marked a breakthrough for the Democratic Party's progressive wing and denied Republicans a chance to flip the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. El-Sayed, 42, a former public health official, focused on lowering costs for working families and reducing corporate influence in politics. His platform included Medicare for All, a government-funded universal healthcare program championed by progressives in his party. Republicans held a 53-47 Senate majority going into Tuesday's midterm elections, with Democrats needing a net gain of four seats to take control. His opponent Mike Rogers, 63, a former congressman and FBI agent, entered the race with strong backing from Trump and national Republicans and had sought to cast El-Sayed as a radical candidate sympathetic to Islamic extremism through alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, claims that El-Sayed denies and that remain unsupported by evidence. Democrats said the attacks on El-Sayed relied on Islamophobic tropes. Rogers also devoted significant effort to courting Jewish voters who may have been uneasy with El-Sayed's opposition to US military aid for Israel and his characterization of Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide. But Rogers struggled to overcome voter concerns about the economy and Trump's low ratings. In the closing weeks of the race, he broke with the president on the war in Iran and the US trade dispute with Canada, arguing that ending both was necessary to help bring down costs for businesses and consumers...
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SYDNEY, November 4 (IPS) – As in previous elections, the latest Israeli national election offered people no real choice. They had to choose between bad Zionists and good Zionists. Thus,...

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