News media organisations across the world went into a celebratory overdrive following Joe Biden’s triumph over the 46th President of the United States Donald Trump in the 2020 US Presidential election, following which they pivoted to discussing consequences of US policy during the Trump reign.

The international press also highlighted the crowning of Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris who has now become the first African-American woman to be elected for the role.

The headline of renowned British news media organisation The Independent read “A new dawn for America,” depicting a picture of the 77-year Presidential elect Joe Biden alongside Vice President Kamala Harris.

News media outlet Sunday Times carried the headline “Sleepy Joe wakes up America,” in an indirect flak to sitting President Donald Trump, along with a picture of a black woman draped in the US flag.

Germany’s Bind, a newspaper in wide circulation, made a scathing attack on President Donald Trump with its headline, “Exit without decency.”

The left-leaning media outlet added, “What a liberation, what a relief,” but reminded President elect Joe Biden that he had inherited “a heavy burden,” unlike any other faced by his predecessors. It also stated that President Trump accepting defeat was “unthinkable” ruling out possibilities of a concession speech.

Egyptian government daily al-Akhbar published a long editorial highlighting Trump’s unfounded claims on voter fraud and added, “it is time for the United States to stop giving us lessons in democracy.”

In Iran, a country heavily sanctioned by the Trump regime, local newspapers celebrated the downfall of Republican president Donald Trump. However, conservative publication Resalat did not mince their words and unfurled on both the Presidential candidates saying, “The maskless enemy left, the masked enemy arrived.”

Saudi Arabian news publications conjectured on whether Joe Biden would persist with the close ties established between the two nations by Donald Trump, with pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat paper urging the former vice president to continue a, “period of economic prosperity and stability in security” for the Middle East.”

In Turkey reactions to Biden victory over Trump were muted as major media outlet Hurriyet ran a small front page article on the result alongside the caption, “Trump went golfing.”

In Brazil, Trump’s defeat was interpreted in the context of its own populist leader Jair Bolsonaro.

“Trump’s defeat punishes the attacks against civilisation, it is a lesson for Bolsonaro,” wrote Folha de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil’s major daily newspapers.

It added, “May Brazil’s leaders seize the spirit of the times or die, like Trump.”

Spanish newspaper El Mundo stated that Trump’s defeat was a departure from populism and described Harris as a symbol of renewal.