US 2020 hopefuls look to Super Tuesday
Nevada: Super Tuesday is beginning to concentrate the minds of Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination – but contests in two states come before next month’s big day.
Nevada and South Carolina will have their say after the opening events in Iowa and New Hampshire but those dates are warm-ups to March 3 when more than a dozen states will make their decision on who should be the party’s challenger to Donald Trump in November’s presidential election.
Senator Elizabeth Warren was holding a town hall meeting last night in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia, a day before Senator Bernie Sanders makes two North Carolina stops and then goes to Texas.
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, will campaign in California between fundraisers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
All four states vote on March 3, along with a crush of others, from Alabama to Colorado and from Maine to Utah, as well as Ms Warren’s home state of Massachusetts and Mr Sanders’ native Vermont.
Berlin: The UN Security Council has endorsed a 55-point road map for ending the war in Libya and condemned the recent increase in violence in the north African country.
The vote on the Britishdrafted resolution was 14-0, with Russia abstaining, even though Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the 12 leaders who agreed to the plan at a conference in Berlin on January 19.
Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said he abstained because the government has “serious doubts” about whether the resolution can be implemented and end the war between rival governments “in the way we’d like to see it”.
He said the Berlin plan “has one defect... and that is a lack of clearly expressed consent from the Libyan sides themselves”.
“Events will show us who was right,” Mr Nebenzia said. “And if the resolution will have a positive impact in resolving the conflict, I will be the first to acknowledge I was wrong.”
Khartoum: Sudan’s transitional government said it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen, in a bid to have the African country taken off the US terrorism list and improve relations with the West.
The settlement is the latest step from
Khartoum to get off the terror list.
Earlier this week, Sudan’s provisional rulers said they had agreed to hand over long-time autocrat Omar al-bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on charges of war crimes and genocide during the fighting in the western Darfur region.