🔙The historic nature of Kamala Harris’s election as the first female vice president of the US seemed to creep up quietly.
Then, resplendent in suffragette purple, Harris drew every eye at the ceremony, Biden relegated to the role of supporting actor telegraph.co.uk/women/politics…
⭐️If this woman, the child of immigrants, the first black and south-Asian vice president elect, could go all the way to the top of US politics so could any little girl, anywhere
Harris is the most important vice president since Franklin D. Roosevelt because Biden is so old.
As the second in command to a near-octogenarian, it seems not just a possibility but almost a probability that America could soon have its first female Commander-in-Chief
✅When Biden was choosing a running mate, Harris seemed to tick every box – her centrism chimed with his, and her ethnicity and gender appealed to voters an old white bloke could not reach.
🗳️According to reports, the president was initially reluctant to invite her on to his ticket.
Having been persuaded of the electoral sense of the move, some now see an element of revenge in the task the new president gave her once they were in office: immigration
📰Months passed with the VP failing to materialise at the border, or do or say anything of substance: newspapers mocked her apparent inaction.
Misstepping on an issue as controversial as this would be catastrophic. Yet her track record to date has been both patchy and poor
Where once the spin was that the presidency was a “joint Biden-Harris administration” the last two months have seen her and Biden together at just two events; at ceremonies marking the anniversaries of 9/11 and the Martin Luther King Jr memorial on the Mall in Washington DC
For those around the world who believed the vice president was a beacon of hope for the future – the woman who could – her absence over the past year has spoken the volumes her actions should have.
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain
🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported
🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
The 51-year-old mayor of Kyiv, and former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, told The Telegraph's @Barnes_Joe that increasing Russian attacks on power plants have left his country on the brink of a fresh humanitarian crisis
🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow
➡️In what was seen as a move to reassure Nato allies amid Russian nuclear-sabre-rattling, the replacement process will begin in December, having previously been expected next spring
Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.
Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
He is part of Hoods Hoods Klan, an anti-fascist, anti-racist ultra group that supported the now-bankrupt Arsenal Kyiv and engaged in violence with rival football factions known for including neo-Nazis.
But all that has changed. Now they are more concerned with Russia’s violence