NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA COLUMN AT DEMOCRATIC ACCENT SIGNIFIES THE NEWS STORIES, ARTICLES AND OPINION FROM AMERICAN CONTINENT. IT MOSTLY COMPRISES THE LATEST GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND OTHER PROMINENT NATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is fulfilling another Steve Jobs vision

10:09 pm August 24, 2020

Berkeley: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to be doing so well at it that his eventual successor may also have big shoes to fill. Initially seen as a mere caretaker for the iconic franchise that Jobs built before his 2011 death, Cook […]

60,000 in Southern California to evacuate after blaze grows

Big California wildfires burn on as death toll reaches 7

8:49 pm August 24, 2020

Scotts Valley: Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system packing high winds and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes. There were hundreds of other wildfires burning Sunday across the state and nearly 250,000 people were under […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Protests erupt after Wisconsin police shoot Black man

8:22 pm August 24, 2020

Kenosha: Police in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Kenosha shot and wounded a Black man, apparently in the back, after responding to a call about a domestic dispute, setting off a night of protests and unrest in which officers fired tear gas and demonstrators apparently hurled objects and set fire to parked cars. The shooting happened at around 5 […]

Australian newspaper cartoon of US candidates Kamala Harris and Joe Biden criticized as racist

Australian newspaper cartoon of U.S. candidates Harris and Biden criticized as racist

1:10 pm August 24, 2020

Sydney: A cartoon in Australia’s biggest national newspaper was denounced as racist by some top government figures on Friday for a portrayal of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris that critics said was racist. The cartoon by Johannes Leak in The Australian newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s […]

Nikki Haley and top Republican leaders call for US boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China

Indian-American Nikki Haley among star speakers at Republican convention

11:46 am August 24, 2020

Washington: Nikki Haley, popular Indian-American Republican politician and former US envoy to the UN, will be among the star speakers on the first day of the Republican National Convention which begins on Monday, according to a list released by the Trump campaign. The four-day RNC will formally nominate 77-year-old incumbent President Donald Trump as the […]