By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Monde
As the US midterm elections approach, the cost of living is weighing on Donald Trump and his party, despite the strength of the US economy. Midterm elections are traditionally difficult for the president’s party, Le Monde notes.
Donald Trump’s presidency is further weakening transatlantic relations amid trade tensions, territorial claims over Greenland and an energy rapprochement with Vladimir Putin. The US midterm elections could increase this uncertainty for the European Union, according to France 24 Afrique.
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Donald Trump reinstates two campaign rallies in Kansas and Iowa, two days before the US midterm elections. The US president is due to hold the events on Sunday after their sudden cancellation, in addition to nearly 20 telephone appearances, according to a Republican source cited by AFP.
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Donald Trump reaffirmed that he would pay $5,000 to every citizen if Republicans won the US midterm elections. The US president also acknowledged that a head of state generally loses these elections, as polls worry his camp, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Pope Leo XIV, a US citizen, voted by post in Illinois in the 3 November 2026 midterm elections, becoming the first known pontiff to vote in a US election, according to Le Monde and The Maravi Post. The Vatican confirmed his participation on 30 October and presented it as an exercise of his civic rights, The Maravi Post reports. His vote could draw criticism because of his strained relations with Donald Trump, according to Le Monde.
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Russian strikes leave hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian households without powerRussian bombardments hit a thermal power plant in Kyiv, as well as four substations and a gas distribution facility in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without electricity. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported the damage, as the strikes form part of Russia’s war against Ukraine.The week in Africa
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