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Biden says Trump's refusal to accept defeat 'an embarrassment'

BBC 2020-11-11 11:15:44

Joe Biden has said US President Donald Trump's refusal to concede defeat in last week's White House election is "an embarrassment". But the US president-elect - who has been making contac...

Biden camp mulls legal action as agency delays recognising transition

REUTERS 2020-11-10 14:25:26

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is considering legal action over a federal agency’s delay in recognising the Democrat’s victory over President Donald Trump in last week&r...

Brazil suspends clinical trial of China's Sinovac corona vaccine

REUTERS 2020-11-10 12:07:30

Brazil’s health regulator has suspended a clinical trial of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event, surprising the trial organisers who countered there had been...

Covid-19 hospitalisations hit record high in US

REUTERS 2020-11-10 11:54:24

There were just over 59,000 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the United States on Monday (US standard time), the country’s highest number ever of in-patients being treated for the disease,...

China, Russia await official results before commenting on US election

-- 2020-11-09 21:20:36

China and Russia held off congratulating US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, with Bejing saying it would follow usual custom in its response and the Kremlin noting incumbent Donald Trump's vow to...

Trump's legal woes likely to deepen after leaving office

-- 2020-11-09 18:52:00

Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has been besieged by civil lawsuits and criminal investigations of his inner circle. With Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, Trump's legal...

Biden campaign urges federal agency to approve official transfer of power

-- 2020-11-09 13:56:30

President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign on Sunday urged the Trump political appointee who heads the US General Services Administration to approve an official transition of power despite President D...

Biden prepares for White House as Trump plans to protest his election loss

REUTERS 2020-11-09 13:25:28

Democrat Joe Biden began preparing on Sunday to deal with the coronavirus and other problems that will confront him as president of a divided America, while President Donald Trump planned campaign-sty...

US becomes first nation to surpass 10m Covid cases

REUTERS 2020-11-09 10:53:03

The United States became the first nation worldwide since the pandemic began to surpass 10 million coronavirus infections, according to a Reuters tally on Sunday, as the third wave of the Covid-19 vir...

Trump will lose special Twitter protections in January

-- 2020-11-08 22:23:23

US President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules like any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, the social media company confirmed this week. Tw...

A checklist of priorities for President Biden

Badrul Ahsan 2020-11-08 21:07:21

It has been a historic election. It has been a divisive election. Now that it is all behind him, President-elect Joe Biden will have before him the tough task of restoring the magnificence of American...

Five US states take measures to eradicate racist language, symbols

-- 2020-11-08 20:46:03

Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a...

Five reasons behind Biden’s victory in US election

ANTHONY ZURCHER, BBC 2020-11-08 20:34:44

After nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House. It was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place amidst a once-in-a-ce...

Congratulations from world leaders pour in for Biden on election victory

REUTERS 2020-11-08 12:18:16

Democrat Joe Biden captured the US presidency on Saturday as voters narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trump’s tumultuous leadership and embraced Biden’s promise to fight the co...

Trump campaign files new lawsuit over ‘rejected ballots’ in Arizona

-- 2020-11-08 11:07:52

Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in downtown Phoenix on Saturday to contest Joe Biden’s election as US president, charging the media with conspiring to steal the election...

Biden, in victory speech, says ‘time to heal’ a deeply divided nation

REUTERS 2020-11-08 09:41:32

President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” America in his first speech after prevailing on Saturday in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede....

Harris becomes first female, Black, South Asian VP-elect of US

-- 2020-11-07 23:34:43

Kamala Harris made history on Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrench...

This election is far from over, Trump says

Reuters 2020-11-07 23:11:56

US President Donald Trump has said his campaign would begin challenging US election results in court next week. “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his...

Joe Biden elected 46th US president

-- 2020-11-07 22:44:01

Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic and a...

Biden edges closer to win as Pennsylvania focus intensifies

-- 2020-11-07 22:20:26

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden edged ever closer Saturday to a victory over President Donald Trump as the long, exacting work of counting votes extended into the fourth day after the e...

US election commission finds no evidence of illegal votes

-- 2020-11-07 20:32:42

An official of the Federal Election Commission of the United States has said the commission did not find any evidence of fraud in the presidential election of this year. "State and local officials an...

US Republicans divided over Trump's election-fraud claims

-- 2020-11-07 18:41:45

As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding US presidential election results, some of his Republican fellows in Congress have hinted that he ought to tone down his rhetoric. Three days after t...

How Georgia could leave US Senate control unclear until January

REUTERS 2020-11-07 14:04:12

The state of Georgia is playing an unusual power-broker role in the knife-edge balance-of-power struggle playing out between Democrats and Republicans over the US Senate following Tuesday’s elec...

Biden predicts victory as his lead over Trump widens

REUTERS 2020-11-07 11:56:32

Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that he was going to win the US presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him...

Republicans trying to raise at least $60 million for Trump’s legal battle

-- 2020-11-07 11:25:54

Republicans are trying to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges brought by President Donald Trump over the US presidential election’s results, three sources familiar with the matte...

White House chief of staff Meadows contracts coronavirus

Reuters 2020-11-07 11:13:18

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has frequently appeared at public events without wearing a mask, has been diagnosed with Covid-19, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters news a...

Biden takes lead over Trump in US election, but no victory call so far

REUTERS 2020-11-07 10:17:50

Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to winning the White House on Friday as he expanded his lead over President Donald Trump in battleground states, but television networks held off from declaring him the...

Joe Biden on verge of winning US presidency

AP 2020-11-07 00:36:26

Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Those put Bi...

Biden takes lead in critical Pennsylvania

CNN 2020-11-06 20:50:04

Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken the lead in his birth state of Pennsylvania as the number of outstanding ballots has dwindled, putting the Democrat within striking distance of the 270 electo...

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...