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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said it would be "premature" to comment further given that ballots were still being counted.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday had ordered the sweep in response to lawsuits by groups including Vote Forward, the NAACP, and Latino community advocates. Sullivan is holding a 12 p.m. status conference on the lawsuits.

Britain's vaccine chief said on Wednesday that she hoped to see positive interim COVID19 vaccine data from both Oxford and Pfizer and BioNTech in early December allowing a roll out to start this year.

British-based Smarkets exchange is giving Trump and Biden an almost an equal chance of winning as of 1000 GMT, with Trump sitting at a 51% chance. The odds on Trump had risen to as much as 80% overnight.

Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase In God We Trust, with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederatethemed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice...

If the election generated that sort of distress in someone 3,000 miles away, how did actual Americans, marinating in a sea of collective angst, get through the day?

A group representing European and U.S. investors with a collective $30 trillion (£23 trillion) in assets urged the United States to quickly rejoin a global accord to tackle climate change on Wednesday, as a decision by President Donald Trump to leave the...

Along with Kamala Harris, several other Indian-American Members of Congress are tugged in the Presidential election race majorly in the states of Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio which has a sizable presence of the community.

Americans by the millions waited patiently to cast their ballots at libraries, schools and arenas across the United States on Tuesday, in an orderly show of civic duty that belied the deep tensions of one of the most polarizing presidential campaigns in t...

States start reporting some of their results as soon as their polls close. But remember, they don’t report them all at once, so you might see skewed results when you’re scrolling through the news channels.

Bahrain has granted emergency approval for the use of a Chinese COVID19 vaccine candidate currently in phase III trials on frontline workers from Tuesday, state news agency BNA said.

North Korea is building two new submarines, including one capable of firing ballistic missiles, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, following a closeddoor briefing by the South's National Intelligence Service.

Brahim Issaoui, 21, remains hospitalised after being shot several times by police after the knife rampage at Nice's  Notre-Dame basilica on Thursday.

Kurtin S. had Albanian roots but his parents were originally from North Macedonia, the editor of the weekly Falter newspaper Florian Klenk said.

In a normal year, results would start flowing in pretty quickly, and we might have a good picture within hours of which candidate was poised to reach 270 electoral votes.

The indelible memory of 2016’s polling misfire, when Donald Trump trailed in virtually every pre-election poll and yet swept the battleground states and won the Electoral College, has hovered over the 2020 campaign. Biden’s unusually persistent lead has d...