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Overall, Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election with 306 Electoral College votes to Donald Trump’s 232 A recount in Wisconsin’s largest county demanded by Republican President Donald Trump’s election campaign ended Friday with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden gaining votes. Also read: U.S. Presidential election | No evidence of voter fraud, say poll […]
A video explainer on the journey of Pakistani politician and Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz Maryam Nawaz, the eldest of the third generation of the Sharif dynasty in Pakistan, is credited with scripting the current political movement of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz that is bringing the masses to the streets. From Punjab to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
The main ceremony will be held on November 30 at Gurdwara Janamasthan Nankana Sahib in Punjab province. Over 600 Sikhs arrived here from India through the Wagah border on November 27 to take part in the celebrations of the 551st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at Nankana Sahib, the birth place of the founder […]
The movement has been protesting the imprisonment of a rapper on charges of contempt, casting a spotlight on the one-party state’s treatment of human rights. More than 150 people staked out Cuba’s culture ministry on Friday to show solidarity with dissident artists facing a state crackdown, in an unusually large display of public dissent on […]
Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of soccer star Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral. Diego Maradona | A roller coaster life in pictures The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death threats, across a nation that venerated Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack […]
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have asked the FDA to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. A panel of U.S. advisers will meet on Tuesday to vote on how scarce, initial supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine will be given out once one has been approved. Experts have proposed giving the vaccine to […]
The officers involved in the beating of Zecler were suspended during an internal police investigation. French President Emmanuel Macron has said video images showing police officers beating up a Black man “shame us,” and condemned violence both by and against the police. Mr. Macron asked the government to quickly come up with proposals “to reaffirm […]
The TPLF has accused Ethiopia of enlisting Eritrean military support, a charge Ethiopia denies. At least one rocket fired from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region targeted neighbouring Eritrea Friday night, four regional diplomats told AFP, the second such attack since Ethiopia’s internal conflict broke out earlier this month. “There was one rocket coming from Tigray that […]
The ruling comes four days after Pennsylvania officials certified their vote count for President-elect Joe Biden President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results. Mr. Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the […]
If the nearly four years under U.S. President Donald Trump led the country away from international alliances and eschewed Washington’s commitment to globalisation and multilateralism, it appears that the administration of Joe Biden, Democrat and winner of the 2020 election, will aim to reverse that experience. The recent announcement by Mr. Biden and Vice President-elect […]