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What effect could lawsuits have on US elections

What effect could lawsuits have on US elections

-- 2020-11-06 18:40:59

Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president. With Democrat Joe Biden pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, President Dona...

Biden sees path to 270, Trump attacks election integrity

Biden sees path to 270, Trump attacks election integrity

-- 2020-11-06 18:08:37

US President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week’s election against Joe Biden, as the Democrat gained grou...

Indonesians collect old phones to help students get online

Indonesians collect old phones to help students get online

-- 2020-11-06 17:45:55

When a garbage collector came to Ghina Ghaliya’s house in the Indonesian capital and asked if she had an old mobile phone his children could use to access the internet, it sparked an idea for a...

Biden overtakes Trump by 917 votes in Georgia

Biden overtakes Trump by 917 votes in Georgia

-- 2020-11-06 16:31:49

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead in the battleground state of Georgia by 917 votes as the tallying of votes continues in the state. Biden is locked in a tight election race...

US shatters daily Covid record, topping 120,000 fresh infections

US shatters daily Covid record, topping 120,000 fresh infections

Reuters 2020-11-06 15:52:49

Coronavirus cases in the United States surged by at least 120,276 on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, the second consecutive daily record rise as the outbreak spreads in every region. US cases...

Biden closes in on presidency, gaining on Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania

Biden closes in on presidency, gaining on Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania

REUTERS 2020-11-06 15:25:26

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gained more ground on President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday, edging closer to the White House hours after...

Why Franco-Turkish cartoon row could have lasting impact

Why Franco-Turkish cartoon row could have lasting impact

REUTERS 2020-11-06 12:19:18

Slights and barbs have marred relations between France’s Emmanuel Macron and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan for years, but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new...

Vote counts push Biden closer to victory as Trump falsely claims election theft

Vote counts push Biden closer to victory as Trump falsely claims election theft

REUTERS 2020-11-06 11:20:27

With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process...

Biden edges closer to victory as Trump issues legal challenge

Biden edges closer to victory as Trump issues legal challenge

-- 2020-11-05 18:06:47

Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to victory in the US presidential race on Thursday as election officials tallied votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome and protesters took to t...

More shops to be shut in Paris at night to curb worsening Covid crisis

More shops to be shut in Paris at night to curb worsening Covid crisis

-- 2020-11-05 15:58:51

Paris will be placed under more restrictions to curb the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, including a requirement for more shops to close in the evening, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told BFM TV on Thursday....

Global coronavirus cases near 48 million

Global coronavirus cases near 48 million

-- 2020-11-05 13:49:57

The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases is approaching 48 million on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. According to the data, the death toll from the virus c...

10 arrested in Portland, 50 in New York on night after US vote

10 arrested in Portland, 50 in New York on night after US vote

-- 2020-11-05 12:50:15

Police in the city of Portland made arrests and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle after late night demonstrations, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state’s National Guard in respo...

A handful of US states remain in play, but what makes them that way?

A handful of US states remain in play, but what makes them that way?

Associated Press 2020-11-05 12:21:33

A handful of pivotal states remained in play Wednesday (US standard time) in the tightly contested US presidential race. Here, The Associated Press reviews them and examines the reasons why they could...

US sees record 100,000 new Covid cases

US sees record 100,000 new Covid cases

-- 2020-11-05 11:05:43

There were more than 100,000 new cases of coronavirus in the US on Wednesday - a record one-day increase. The figure, reported by the Covid Tracking Project, is accompanied by a steep rise in hospita...

Trump files suits to stop vote counting as Biden nears 270

Trump files suits to stop vote counting as Biden nears 270

Reuters 2020-11-05 10:13:19

US Democrat Joe Biden on Wednesday (US standard time) predicted an election win over Donald Trump after pivotal victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, while the incumbent Republican President sought to...

Republicans likely to retain control of US Senate, dashing Democratic hopes

Republicans likely to retain control of US Senate, dashing Democratic hopes

-- 2020-11-05 10:10:20

Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the US Senate on Wednesday, after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win re-election in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats...

US Postal Service completes ballot sweeps required by judge

US Postal Service completes ballot sweeps required by judge

-- 2020-11-04 23:10:06

The US Postal Service (USPS) completed required sweeps of mail processing facilities late Tuesday in about a dozen states after it had earlier said it could not meet an afternoon deadline to complete...

US judge reviews ballot counting in suburban Philadelphia county

US judge reviews ballot counting in suburban Philadelphia county

-- 2020-11-04 22:48:38

A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Wednesday weighed arguments by Republicans seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted t...

US presidency still undecided, Biden opens leads in key Midwestern states

US presidency still undecided, Biden opens leads in key Midwestern states

-- 2020-11-04 22:19:05

The excruciatingly close US presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday, with a handful of closely contested states set to decide the outcome in the coming hours or days, even as President...

Suu Kyi’s govt making unacceptable mistakes over polls: Myanmar army chief

Suu Kyi’s govt making unacceptable mistakes over polls: Myanmar army chief

-- 2020-11-04 21:50:59

Myanmar’s army chief said on Tuesday the civilian government, led by  Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is making ‘unacceptable mistakes’ in the run-up to a pivotal general elect...

World holds its breath for US election outcome

World holds its breath for US election outcome

-- 2020-11-04 21:02:17

A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser on Wednesday, with millions of votes still to count, the race too close to call and mounting risk...

US formally exits Paris climate pact

US formally exits Paris climate pact

-- 2020-11-04 19:57:25

The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change. The move, long threatened by US President Don...

Twitter, Facebook add label to Trump’s misleading posts on election

Twitter, Facebook add label to Trump’s misleading posts on election

-- 2020-11-04 19:41:45

Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc added information label to some of US President Donald Trump's posts on the US election in a real-time test of their rules on handling misinformation and premature claims...

US presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states

US presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states

-- 2020-11-04 19:21:12

The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wis...

What might happen if US election result is disputed?

What might happen if US election result is disputed?

Reuters 2020-11-04 18:35:58

Despite incomplete results from several battleground states that could determine the outcome of the US presidential race, President Donald Trump proclaimed victory over Democratic challenger Joe Biden...

Trump falsely claims victory after Biden expresses optimism

Trump falsely claims victory after Biden expresses optimism

Reuters 2020-11-04 14:12:53

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday falsely claimed that he had won the election with millions of votes still uncounted after his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, said he was confident of winning a con...

Biden says he is 'on track', Trump accuses Democrats of election fraud

Biden says he is 'on track', Trump accuses Democrats of election fraud

Reuters 2020-11-04 14:01:27

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he was confident of victory while President Donald Trump accused Democrats of trying to steal the election on Wednesday (US standard time) as a tigh...

Trump shows surprising gains with Latinos, loses some older voters: Exit polls

Trump shows surprising gains with Latinos, loses some older voters: Exit polls

Reuters 2020-11-04 13:54:28

As the US presidential race remained undecided, President Donald Trump showed some surprising gains with Latino and other nonwhite voters, but they may have been offset by losses among those who suppo...

Europe tightens restrictions as coronavirus hospitalisations rise

Europe tightens restrictions as coronavirus hospitalisations rise

-- 2020-11-04 13:31:53

Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the UK announced plans Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections a...

Four die in shooting in US Nevada

Four die in shooting in US Nevada

-- 2020-11-04 13:06:49

Four people were dead and one was wounded in a shooting involving police on Tuesday morning in Henderson, a city in the US state of Nevada. According to local newspaper Las Vegas Review-Journal, poli...