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Kamala Harris pays tribute to women in first speech as VP-elect in US
Vice president-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday paid tribute to the women, whose shoulders she stands on as she shatters barriers that have kept mostly white men entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. “Tonight...
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US election: Joe Biden vows to unite America after 'convincing' victory
US President-elect Joe Biden promised Saturday to unite Americans and seek to heal divisions after what he called a “convincing” victory over Donald Trump. “This is the time to heal in America,” an ebullient Biden told supporters at an outdoor rally in...
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Kamala Harris is first Black, Indo-American Vice-President-elect of the US
It is now clear that Kamala Harris, the first Indian American and Black American candidate on a US presidential ticket, will be America's next Vice President, capping a historic run for the nation's second-highest office. The Biden-Harris ticket is at...
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Trump does not concede to President-elect Biden, promises unspecified legal challenges
President Donald Trump is not conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, promising unspecified legal challenges seeking to overturn the outcome of the race for the White House. Trump said in a statement that “our campaign will start prosecuting our case...
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Biden wins White House, ending Trump presidency
Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media said Saturday, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades. CNN, NBC News and...
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US Election live: Biden elected president, say media projections
Joe Biden has won the US presidency over Donald Trump, TV networks projected Saturday — a victory sealed after the Democrat claimed several key battleground states won by the Republican incumbent in 2016. CNN, NBC News and CBS News called the race in...
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US election: Pennsylvania court orders counting of some votes to stop
After Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a state court has ordered election officials to stop counting some votes. The ruling issued on Friday could delay the completion of voting in the...
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Ethiopian PM says air strikes in Tigray region will continue
Ethiopian jets bombed the Tigray region on Friday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged more air strikes in the escalating conflict, as reports emerged that Tigrayan forces had seized control of key federal military sites and weapons. Civilians in the...
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French PM vows to fight 'radical Islam' in tribute to attack victims
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday the government would keep “fighting relentlessly” against 'radical Islam' as he paid tribute to the three victims of a knife attack in the southern city of Nice last month. A Tunisian man shouting “Allahu...
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Congo-Brazzaville marks national tree day : amid coronavirus
Congo-Brazzaville celebrated the 34th tree day on Friday. Held at Denis Sassou N'Guesso university Garden, located in northern Brazzaville, under the the theme<< let's contin ue to plant trees to fight against floods and landslides despite the coronavirus...
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Coronavirus: WHO warns of 'explosion' of Europe cases
Denmark on Thursday raced to shut down a region where a mutated version of the coronavirus detected in minks spread to humans, as the World Health Organization warned of an "explosion" in Covid-19 infections in Europe and England entered its second lockdown....
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US election 2020: Trump team predicts victory by Friday, Biden launches White House transition website
President Donald Trump's campaign said on Thursday it expected to launch additional legal action in Pennsylvania and Nevada and predicted that the Republican incumbent would emerge victorious in the US election by as early as Friday evening. Trump campaign...
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US election: Protests erupt as vote-counting drags on
A second day of sometimes duelling demonstrations over the integrity of the US presidential election started early on Thursday in Philadelphia and other cities as ballot counting dragged on in a handful of states that would decide the outcome. Some groups,...
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US election: Joe Biden rebuilding 'blue wall' in race for the White House
Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path. With just a handful of...
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India: 12 dead in factory blast
At least 12 workers were killed Wednesday when part of a chemical warehouse collapsed following a powerful blast in western India, officials said. A fire official said the dead included five women and nine other people were injured in the incident at...
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us election : biden at 248 electoral votes, trump at 214
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are squaring off for what could be a legal battle for the White House, running neck-and-neck in the electoral vote count, and several battleground states still in play on Wednesday. As it stands,...
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Libya’s rivals urge Security Council to back ceasefire
Libya’s rivals wrapped up their military talks with a call to the UN Security Council to adopt a binding resolution to implement a ceasefire deal inked last month, the UN said. The two-day talks in the oasis town of Ghadames, which concluded late Tuesday,...
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Ethiopia declares state of emergency in Tigray region
Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency in its northern Tigray region after the prime minister ordered the military to confront the regional government, saying it carried out a deadly attack on a military base overnight. The six-month state of emergency...
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US election live results: Biden, Trump locked in tight races in battleground states
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were locked in tight races in battleground states across the country Tuesday night as they concluded an epic campaign that will shape America’s response to the surging pandemic and foundational...
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Vienna shooting: Police arrest 14 after Daesh gunman kills 4
Austrian police raided 18 properties and arrested 14 people in a massive dragnet on Tuesday, after a gunman identified as a convicted jihadist killed four people in a rampage in the centre of Vienna overnight. The gunman, who was killed by police minutes...
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US presidential debate format to change after Trump-Biden chaos
US presidential debate organisers vowed on Wednesday to change the rules to rein in unruly behaviour after President Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted rival Joe Biden and the moderator in the candidates' taunt-filled initial prime-time encounter. Biden...
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Salty lake, ponds may be gurgling beneath South Pole on Mars
A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars' South Pole alongside a large underground lake, raising the prospect of tiny, swimming Martian life. Italian scientists reported their findings on Monday, two years after identifying what they believed...
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Russian scientist behind Covid-19 vaccine defends 'wartime' roll-out, says no corners being cut
Russia plans to share preliminary results of its Covid-19 vaccine trial based on the first six weeks of monitoring participants, raising the tempo in an already frenzied global race to end the pandemic. Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya Institute...
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Coronavirus: Interactive map charts how Covid-19 killed 1 million people
On a Thursday night in early January, the disease that would become known as Covid-19 claimed its first victim, a 61-year-old man who succumbed to the newly identified coronavirus in the city of Wuhan, in the People's Republic of China. Nine months later,...
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Teacher in China poisons 25 kindergarten students, gets death sentence
In a fit of rage, a kindergarten teacher had an argument with her colleague following which she poisoned 25 children, one of whom died. Wang Yun has been sentenced to death. The teacher was arrested in Jiaozuo, central China, for poisoning her colleague's...